History Forgave Churchill Why Not Blair and Bush? by Mickey Z

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>Subject: History Forgave Churchill Why Not Blair and Bush? by Mickey Z

>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:19:24 +0300

>The true face of "Sir" Winston Churchill...

>Berdal Aral

> >

> > http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=3930

> >

> > History Forgave Churchill Why Not Blair And Bush?

> >

> > by Mickey Z; July 19, 2003

> >

> > On July 17, 2003, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair addressed a joint meeting

> > of the U.S. House and Senate. The subject of WMD, of course, was on the

> > front burner.

> >

> > "If we are wrong, then we will have destroyed a threat that was at its

>least

> > responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering,' Blair said. "I am

>confident

> > history will forgive.'

> >

> > Blair's confidence is justified. History has forgiven U.K. leaders for

> > plenty. How else, for example, could U.S. News and World Report have

>dubbed

> > Winston Churchill "The Last Hero" in a 2000 cover story? In that article,

> > Churchill was said to believe in "liberty, the rule of law, and the rights

> > of the individual."

> >

> > As Sir Winston himself declared: "History will be kind to me for I intend

>to

> > write it."

> >

> > This is precisely why so few of us ever discuss Churchill as a war

>criminal

> > or racist. In 1910, in the capacity of Home Secretary, he put forth a

> > proposal to sterilize roughly 100,000 "mental degenerates" and dispatch

> > several thousand others to state-run labor camps. These actions were to

>take

> > place in the name of saving the British race from inevitable decline as

>its

> > inferior members bred.

> >

> > History has forgiven Churchill for his role in the Allied invasion of the

> > Soviet Union in 1917. England's Minister for War and Air during the time,

> > Churchill described the mission as seeking to "strangle at its birth" the

> > Bolshevik state. In 1929, he wrote: "Were [the Allies] at war with Soviet

> > Russia? Certainly not; but they shot Soviet Russians at sight. They stood

>as

> > invaders on Russian soil. They armed the enemies of the Soviet Government.

> > They blockaded its ports, and sunk its battleships. They earnestly desired

> > and schemed its downfall."

> >

> > Two years later, Churchill was secretary of state at the war office when

>the

> > Royal Air Force asked him for permission to use chemical weapons against

> > "recalcitrant Arabs" as an experiment. Winston promptly consented (Yes,

> > Churchill's gassing of Kurds pre-dated Hussein's by nearly 70 years).

> >

> > "I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes,"

> > he explained, a policy he espoused yet again in July 1944 when he asked

>his

> > chiefs of staff to consider using poison gas on the Germans "or any other

> > method of warfare we have hitherto refrained from using." Unlike in 1919,

> > his proposal was denied...not that history would not have forgiven him

> > anyway.

> >

> > In language later appropriated by the Israelis, Winston Churchill had this

> > to say about the Palestinians in 1937: "I do not agree that the dog in a

> > manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain

>there

> > for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for

> > instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America

>or

> > the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done

>to

> > these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more

> > worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."

> >

> > When not scheming a Bolshevik downfall, gassing the uncivilized, or

> > comparing Palestinians to dogs, Churchill found time to write soulmate

> > Benito Mussolini. In January 1927, Sir Winston gushed to Il Duce, "if I

>had

> > been an Italian, I am sure I would have been entirely with you from the

> > beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial

> > appetites and passions of Leninism." Even after the advent of WWII,

> > Churchill found room in his heart for the Italian dictator, explaining to

> > Parliament in 1940:"I do not deny that he is a very great man but he

>became

> > a criminal when he attacked England."

> >

> > Mussolini's criminality aside, Churchill certainly took note of Axis

> > tactics...cavalierly observing that "everyone" was bombing civilians.

>"It's

> > simply a question of fashion," he explained, "similar to that of whether

> > short or long dresses are in."

> >

> > Sir Winston must have been a slave to fashion because he soon ordered a

> > fire-bombing raid on Hamburg in July 1943 that killed at least 48,000

> > civilians, after which he enlisted the aid of British scientists to cook

>up

> > "a new kind of weather" for larger German city.

> >

> > In his wartime memoirs, Winston Churchill forgave himself for the

>countless

> > civilians slaughtered in Dresden. "We made a heavy raid in the latter

>month

> > on Dresden," he wrote benignly, "then a centre of communication of

>Germany's

> > Eastern Front."

> >

> > Surely the Nazis were hiding WMD there, right?

> >

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> > Mickey Z. is the author of The Murdering of My Years: Artists and

>Activists

> > Making Ends Meet (www.murderingofmyyears.com) and an editor at Wide Angle

> > (www.wideangleny.com). He can be reached at: mzx2@earthlink.net.

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