Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Wish I Wrote This....
From an email sub:
Forgotten History - Tuesday, June 20, 2006
"Little known facts and overlooked history"
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O'Reilly and the Truth
By Denis Mueller
On Thursday evening Bill O'Reilly joined the ranks of the
ignorant, not the first time and chances are not the last,
when he said that it was American troops who had committed
the following massacre. He was spinning his spin in the
defense of the marines, who seem by all accounts to have
committed a horrible massacre in Haditha, but have not been
charged of anything as yet. We must be careful here because
we do not all the facts yet. Here is the real story and the
story of another liar, Joe McCarthy, who also misrepresented
the facts.
On December 17, 1944, near the hamlet of Baugnez on the
height half-way between the town of Malmédy and Ligneuville
in Belgium, elements of Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper
encountered the American 285th Field Artillery Observation
Battalion. After a brief battle, the Americans surrendered.
About 150 of the prisoners of war were disarmed and sent to
stand in a field near the crossroads. Peiper and his leading
armored units then continued their advance.
A tank pulled up, and a truck shortly thereafter. A single
SS officer pulled out a pistol and shot a medical officer
standing in the front row, and then shot the man standing
next to the medical officer. Other soldiers joined in with
machine guns. It is not known why this happened; there is
no record of an order by an SS officer. While the shooting
of POWs was common on the Eastern front, such incidents
were rare on the Western front.
O'Reilly who is the biggest moron on television, a blowhard
jerk if there ever was, in an argument with Wesley Clark
claimed that it was American troops who were the ones at
fault. This was not the first time someone had
misrepresented the truth. O'Reilly and Ann Coulter, she
wolf of the right wing, has championed another liar Joseph
McCarthy in her book. But before going on maybe we should
look at what McCarthy had said.
That was in McCarthy's disgusting 1949 campaign on behalf
of Nazi S.S. officers who were convicted of war crimes for
the massacre of American troops during the Battle of the
Bulge. American prisoners of war had been murdered by
Waffen S.S. machine-gunners and the S.S. officers were
sentenced to death. But McCarthy insisted that the entire
case was a lie and the S.S. confessions were obtained by
torture. McCarthy decided intervened in the Senate hearings
on the case and lied repeatedly during his defense of the
Nazi murderers. I guess you could say, once and facist
always a facist, but his most outrageous claim was that
the American investigators had crushed the testicles of
German prisoners. McCarthy was later shown to have served
as the pawn of neo-Nazi's who were using the Malmedy case
to whip up anti-American sentiment in postwar Germany.
Sounds like some pretty bad stuff but we must realize that
these liars are the ones desecrate the memories of our
troops. Our troops are locked in a hopeless campaign
started by our frat boy President. This is again another
example why history is important. We can check the facts
and call out liars like O'Reilly and McCarthy and present
them with the truth. I do not blame the troops who are
stationed in Iraq; who were called to duty and then called
again and again for what has happened. I blame Bush and
Cheney who sent them there.
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