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Jimmy Dore: Defense Department Brags About Killing 1 Million Koreans

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North Korea was so devastated by the 1950 war that it now has a nuclear weapon and a crazed leader because the North Koreans had been driven mad by the US mass bombing. Jimmy Dore really nails home the brutality of the West (as the ruling class of the West are all complicit). The US is on a rampage, or Trump's team is, going after every country that isn't part of the US hegemony while the vassal states of Europe cheer on.General Douglas McArthur had this to say about the Korean War (from the Washington Post): Having just been fired as commander of allied forces in Korea, a defiant Douglas MacArthur appeared before Congress and spoke of human suffering so horrifying that his parting glimpse of it caused him to vomit. “I have never seen such devastation,” the general told members of the

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North Korea was so devastated by the 1950 war that it now has a nuclear weapon and a crazed leader because the North Koreans had been driven mad by the US mass bombing. Jimmy Dore really nails home the brutality of the West (as the ruling class of the West are all complicit).

The US is on a rampage, or Trump's team is, going after every country that isn't part of the US hegemony while the vassal states of Europe cheer on.

General Douglas McArthur had this to say about the Korean War (from the Washington Post):


Having just been fired as commander of allied forces in Korea, a defiant Douglas MacArthur appeared before Congress and spoke of human suffering so horrifying that his parting glimpse of it caused him to vomit.
“I have never seen such devastation,” the general told members of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees. At that time, in May 1951, the Korean War was less than a year old. Casualties, he estimated, were already north of 1 million. 
“I have seen, I guess, as much blood and disaster as any living man,” he added, “and it just curdled my stomach.”

It was a remarkable statement. At that time, the general was not yet six years removed from having presided over the atomic bomb strikes that compelled Japan’s surrender in World War II.


I shrink with a horror that I cannot express in words, at this continuous slaughter of men in Korea. The battle casualties in Korea today probably have passed the million-man mark: Our own casualties, American casualties, have passed 65,000. The Koreans have lost about 140,000. Our losses, on our side, are a quarter of a million men. 
I am not talking of the civilian populations who must have lost many, many, many times that. The enemy probably has lost 750,000 casualties. There are 145,000 of them that are now in our prison bullpens, prisoners, so they might be excepted from that figure because they live; but a million men in less than 11 months of fighting, in less than 11 months of this conflict, have already gone, and it grows more savage every day. 
I just cannot brush that off as a Korean skirmish. I believe that is something of such tremendous importance that it must be solved, and it cannot be solved by the nebulous process of saying ‘give us time, and we will be prepared; or we will be in better shape two years from now,’ which is argumentative. I don’t know whether we will or not; and neither do you. … 
But I say there is no chance in Korea, because it is a fact — you have lost a million men now. You will lose more than a million if you go on another year; if you go on until 1953, you will lose another million. What are you trying to protect? The war in Korea has already almost destroyed the nation of 20,000,000 people.
The Korean War ended more than two years later. An estimated 2.9 million people were left dead, wounded or missing.



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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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