Eisenhower is also a good candidate for the list. The carpet bombing of North Korea remains a war crime that has become a part of North Korean DNA. They will never forget what was done to them.
Well, it is the personification of "the lesser evil". Some are more evil, some are less evil. My personal fancy is "no evil" - since my goal is to die with a smile on my face. A genuine smile, not like that of a deranged psychopath.
I love you Cindy, and I don’t know about you, but at my age (74) my eyesight isn’t what it once was. Any chance of embiggening the font size in your excellent articles? ❤️
Hi John Fred, with almost any web browser, a person can adjust the font size to what is legible. The adjustment procedure is simple, once you figure it out, but it's different for every browser. I'm 74 too, so I understand your concern. I must adjust the font size on many articles.
Woodrow Wilson, greatest Communist-hater in the American "tradition." The War to Save Fascism was more like it (Espionage Act, and the Sedition Act, which was repealed over the censorious Wilson's objections, or: just another elitist control freak). WW #1 ultimately gave us Iraq--Sykes-Picot, 1916, ratified by Versailles 1919-20. French Indo-China=British Mesopotamia: Vietnam War, Iraq War. And there's young old Uncle Sam, picking up the broken pieces for France and Britain. I know that politics is for assholes, but can we at least get some assholes with brains?
Although I'm reluctant to use a term popularized by the late Rush Limbaugh, my overall response to this review of US Chief Executives who were/are war criminals is "ditto". BTW, I think we need a succinct term for evildoers who perpetrate crimes against humanity apart from warmongering-- "criminals against humanity" just doesn't cut it.
That affirmation made, I can't restrain myself from reluctantly being the guy in the tinfoil hat who pops up in a seeming attempt to drag everybody into a crazy/preposterous rabbit hole.
I am by nature a "truther", although I'm not especially fond of the word because it originated as a pejorative epithet. FWIW, for many years I tried to be a responsible or fastidious truther, and accordingly scorned alternative narratives and histories that seemed just TOO preposterous to countenance. So I was just like the Normals when I rolled my eyes at claims that, say, the US moon landings were fake (they were), and that atomic bombs were not used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki (see below).
I bought into the righteous belief that "A-bomb denial" was a heinous offense against the memory of the victims, etc. Then last year I chanced upon a video that featured one Michael Palmer (since deceased), author of a 2022 book entitled "Hiroshima Revisited". I won't share links, but the book is available online, either from booksellers (Amazon, gack!) or as a free PDF.
It's heavy on medical and technical analysis, much of which I ended up skimming through; it's actually far more dry than sensational. But despite my squeamishness, for lack of a better term, I found it compelling and persuasive. I don't want to blather on further, but I think it's worth pointing out that even if the author's contrarian, revisionist critique is true, it in no way gets Truman and the "Allied" leaders off the hook.
As I implied, it's such a startling or shocking critique that even truther-friendly skeptics prefer to say "no thanks", because the settled account is so stark and entrenched that it seems too outrageous and disturbing to question it. Even so, I recommend the book. ✈ 💣 🤔
To me, dear CINDY, George H.W. is much the worst, before, during and after his official Presidency. He ran the Reagan Ad (many Wars, including Contras'); he invaded Panama; he set the cat's paw through Kuwait for invading Irag and starting many Wars in Middle East; he had, I think, a guiding hand in the operational side of " '9/11' ". Mr. "New World Order" over five decades!
HW Bush was a criminal. In the 1980s, US firms were providing biological and chemical weapons ingredients to Saddam Hussein (to use against Iran). This went on until 1989. In 1990, George HW began to send troops to the Gulf to prepare for the Gulf War. The Gulf War "objectives" included destroying Iraq's weapons bunkers containing, among other things, canisters of chemical and bio agents the US sold Iraq. This is described in the Riegle Report on the Gulf War. That report contains the receipts of bio and chem weapons ingredients the US sold to Iraq just prior to the first Gulf War.
Thanks, IMO (couldn't resist). Around 2015 , as I recall, a Yale University professor published a book that places Prescott's son, HW, as logistiical mastermind of the mass murder on 9/11/01. I'd often thought that HW was the right kind of guy for such a job. I can't find that book now. It sppears "scrubbed" from the Internet. Do you or anyone here know the book?
Thanks! The book I somewhat recall was authored by the Yale guy. Yes. DRG did some very helpful books and did a great job of publicizing them Jim and I worked with him from 2004 into 2007.
Biden is no “lost puppy”. Puppies are cute and innocent and Biden and his fellow war criminals and enablers are neither. They excel at defiling innocence, sincerity and beauty.
Truman wasn't a natural warmonger like Nixon and Wilson. He was hijacked by the war profiteers immediately after FDR's funeral. The profiteers had been biding their time during the non-interventionist period from Harding through 1941. They came back to life in '41, and when the war was about to end they saw that Truman was unreliable. This was INTOLERABLE! UNACCEPTABLE! ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE! So they caught poor smalltown Harry at the most vulnerable moment.
Henry Wallace was there at that moment, and told the story in memorable style.
I watched the entire speech by the President of Jordan. I thought he made important points that most of the mainstream media will ignore, instead focusing on the more "click-worthy" distractions of the US President's meanderings. (Indeed, he is the Meander-in-Chief.)
To my simple way of thinking, no discussion of presidential war criminals would be complete without a mention of Lincoln, whose mass murder of his own countrymen, whose legacy of massively increased government power and whose radical false deification surely exceeds all others. In a sane and just world, Rushmore would get an explosive make-over, an exorcism of a demon worshipped in stone ...
IMAGINE...2024 November...(drum roll).......Introducing President Gavin Newsom and Vice President Michelle Obama. (Because we Americans love those who pretend to be the opposite of who they actually are.) ....There is no one in the world who can destroy a state's economy with such unmitigated chutzpah like a Getty family member - even a distant one like Gavin. And Michelle...lovely, loving, all embracing Michelle, a brilliant performer capable of playing Gavin's sidekick. Meanwhile the Democrats cry and hug and have that special dinner together at The French Laundry. All is once again right with the world....(Indulge me, please in my glorious wet dream). I envision Hillary, Barack and Nancy singing a beautiful rendition of KUMBAYA at the Inauguration, swaying in the wind, tears running down their cheeks because...well...of course TRUMP LOSES!!!!... remember that dastardly demon the long ago sidekick of that closeted self hating scum Roy Cohn? Who? ....It's a bright shiny day in DC when Gavin and Michelle are crowned King and Queen of the most hated nation in the world....As a good liberal I'm sure that the arc of justice will swing in the direction of the guillotine for the dissidents, Commies, weirdos, and rebel anarchists because WE VOTED and our vote MATTERS. THE ANOINTED WILL BE FRONT AND CENTER so "Hear ye hear ye all concerned citizens on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok etc ELECT GAVIN The President of the USA in 2024, the anointed Mr. VERY Rich and Connected White Guy for America.....as he maintains the status quo for the elites for another 500 years......or maybe... just maybe.. it will all collapse and we not of that special uber wealthy class will be growing tomatoes and carrots out of our garbage cans. One can only hope, eh?
War crimes or not? Right or wrong doesn't mean anything! it is all about who has the power. I believe that the Scots had a saying for that? "He who can, Takes!" It hasn't ever changed in the course of history.
I vote for Obama,!
I wrote an entire book about his war crimes, so he is a good (bad) one, as well.
I have that book and pull it out every time some misinformed acquaintance spews garbage about how great he is!
awesome!!!!
Eisenhower is also a good candidate for the list. The carpet bombing of North Korea remains a war crime that has become a part of North Korean DNA. They will never forget what was done to them.
I can't think of one who isn't
Well, it is the personification of "the lesser evil". Some are more evil, some are less evil. My personal fancy is "no evil" - since my goal is to die with a smile on my face. A genuine smile, not like that of a deranged psychopath.
Yes, like I pointed out in my piece.
If I had time, I'd do a ranking from most evil, to least evil.
It may take two lifetimes to be thoroughly naming all the crimes of each.
I love you Cindy, and I don’t know about you, but at my age (74) my eyesight isn’t what it once was. Any chance of embiggening the font size in your excellent articles? ❤️
I can. But you can as well.
I do it all the time because I have the same problem---see Ned's comment.
xo
C
Hi John Fred, with almost any web browser, a person can adjust the font size to what is legible. The adjustment procedure is simple, once you figure it out, but it's different for every browser. I'm 74 too, so I understand your concern. I must adjust the font size on many articles.
thanks, ned!
I just did it, and without asking for help from my smarts ass kids or grandkids!! Thanks!
You're a rock star.
Thank you for the honest recollection of these controversial figures. Their crimes against humanity and their failed /questionable moral integrity.
Woodrow Wilson, greatest Communist-hater in the American "tradition." The War to Save Fascism was more like it (Espionage Act, and the Sedition Act, which was repealed over the censorious Wilson's objections, or: just another elitist control freak). WW #1 ultimately gave us Iraq--Sykes-Picot, 1916, ratified by Versailles 1919-20. French Indo-China=British Mesopotamia: Vietnam War, Iraq War. And there's young old Uncle Sam, picking up the broken pieces for France and Britain. I know that politics is for assholes, but can we at least get some assholes with brains?
Although I'm reluctant to use a term popularized by the late Rush Limbaugh, my overall response to this review of US Chief Executives who were/are war criminals is "ditto". BTW, I think we need a succinct term for evildoers who perpetrate crimes against humanity apart from warmongering-- "criminals against humanity" just doesn't cut it.
That affirmation made, I can't restrain myself from reluctantly being the guy in the tinfoil hat who pops up in a seeming attempt to drag everybody into a crazy/preposterous rabbit hole.
I am by nature a "truther", although I'm not especially fond of the word because it originated as a pejorative epithet. FWIW, for many years I tried to be a responsible or fastidious truther, and accordingly scorned alternative narratives and histories that seemed just TOO preposterous to countenance. So I was just like the Normals when I rolled my eyes at claims that, say, the US moon landings were fake (they were), and that atomic bombs were not used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki (see below).
I bought into the righteous belief that "A-bomb denial" was a heinous offense against the memory of the victims, etc. Then last year I chanced upon a video that featured one Michael Palmer (since deceased), author of a 2022 book entitled "Hiroshima Revisited". I won't share links, but the book is available online, either from booksellers (Amazon, gack!) or as a free PDF.
It's heavy on medical and technical analysis, much of which I ended up skimming through; it's actually far more dry than sensational. But despite my squeamishness, for lack of a better term, I found it compelling and persuasive. I don't want to blather on further, but I think it's worth pointing out that even if the author's contrarian, revisionist critique is true, it in no way gets Truman and the "Allied" leaders off the hook.
As I implied, it's such a startling or shocking critique that even truther-friendly skeptics prefer to say "no thanks", because the settled account is so stark and entrenched that it seems too outrageous and disturbing to question it. Even so, I recommend the book. ✈ 💣 🤔
I've been to both places--twice. I believe the a-bombs happened. What would the point be to lie about them?
To me, dear CINDY, George H.W. is much the worst, before, during and after his official Presidency. He ran the Reagan Ad (many Wars, including Contras'); he invaded Panama; he set the cat's paw through Kuwait for invading Irag and starting many Wars in Middle East; he had, I think, a guiding hand in the operational side of " '9/11' ". Mr. "New World Order" over five decades!
He's a bad one too! Agree!
There is also circumstantial evidence linking him to the JFK hit.
HW Bush was a criminal. In the 1980s, US firms were providing biological and chemical weapons ingredients to Saddam Hussein (to use against Iran). This went on until 1989. In 1990, George HW began to send troops to the Gulf to prepare for the Gulf War. The Gulf War "objectives" included destroying Iraq's weapons bunkers containing, among other things, canisters of chemical and bio agents the US sold Iraq. This is described in the Riegle Report on the Gulf War. That report contains the receipts of bio and chem weapons ingredients the US sold to Iraq just prior to the first Gulf War.
Thanks, IMO (couldn't resist). Around 2015 , as I recall, a Yale University professor published a book that places Prescott's son, HW, as logistiical mastermind of the mass murder on 9/11/01. I'd often thought that HW was the right kind of guy for such a job. I can't find that book now. It sppears "scrubbed" from the Internet. Do you or anyone here know the book?
One of David Ray Griffin's books on 9-11 maybe?
And I appreciate your substack, Don.
Thanks! The book I somewhat recall was authored by the Yale guy. Yes. DRG did some very helpful books and did a great job of publicizing them Jim and I worked with him from 2004 into 2007.
Biden is no “lost puppy”. Puppies are cute and innocent and Biden and his fellow war criminals and enablers are neither. They excel at defiling innocence, sincerity and beauty.
On your heading, "Contemplating Justice and Morality," I have made this clever, but relevant quip:
"War is a moral imperative for the morally impaired." - Ned B.
The warmongers' evil personas are visually depicted here: https://nedb.substack.com/p/the-morally-impaired
Truman wasn't a natural warmonger like Nixon and Wilson. He was hijacked by the war profiteers immediately after FDR's funeral. The profiteers had been biding their time during the non-interventionist period from Harding through 1941. They came back to life in '41, and when the war was about to end they saw that Truman was unreliable. This was INTOLERABLE! UNACCEPTABLE! ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE! So they caught poor smalltown Harry at the most vulnerable moment.
Henry Wallace was there at that moment, and told the story in memorable style.
http://ockhamsbungalow.com/blog161/Henry%20Wallace%20Causes%20of%20Inflation.mp3
okay
I watched the entire speech by the President of Jordan. I thought he made important points that most of the mainstream media will ignore, instead focusing on the more "click-worthy" distractions of the US President's meanderings. (Indeed, he is the Meander-in-Chief.)
To my simple way of thinking, no discussion of presidential war criminals would be complete without a mention of Lincoln, whose mass murder of his own countrymen, whose legacy of massively increased government power and whose radical false deification surely exceeds all others. In a sane and just world, Rushmore would get an explosive make-over, an exorcism of a demon worshipped in stone ...
https://open.substack.com/pub/doc115/p/american-demigod-demolished?r=18tk5o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&comments=true
Unmeasurable thanks Cindy, for raising such an important issue, one that is so well hidden by the most powerful propaganda machine in history.
To our tireless Warrior for Peace, Godspeed.
~~ j ~~
IMAGINE...2024 November...(drum roll).......Introducing President Gavin Newsom and Vice President Michelle Obama. (Because we Americans love those who pretend to be the opposite of who they actually are.) ....There is no one in the world who can destroy a state's economy with such unmitigated chutzpah like a Getty family member - even a distant one like Gavin. And Michelle...lovely, loving, all embracing Michelle, a brilliant performer capable of playing Gavin's sidekick. Meanwhile the Democrats cry and hug and have that special dinner together at The French Laundry. All is once again right with the world....(Indulge me, please in my glorious wet dream). I envision Hillary, Barack and Nancy singing a beautiful rendition of KUMBAYA at the Inauguration, swaying in the wind, tears running down their cheeks because...well...of course TRUMP LOSES!!!!... remember that dastardly demon the long ago sidekick of that closeted self hating scum Roy Cohn? Who? ....It's a bright shiny day in DC when Gavin and Michelle are crowned King and Queen of the most hated nation in the world....As a good liberal I'm sure that the arc of justice will swing in the direction of the guillotine for the dissidents, Commies, weirdos, and rebel anarchists because WE VOTED and our vote MATTERS. THE ANOINTED WILL BE FRONT AND CENTER so "Hear ye hear ye all concerned citizens on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok etc ELECT GAVIN The President of the USA in 2024, the anointed Mr. VERY Rich and Connected White Guy for America.....as he maintains the status quo for the elites for another 500 years......or maybe... just maybe.. it will all collapse and we not of that special uber wealthy class will be growing tomatoes and carrots out of our garbage cans. One can only hope, eh?
War crimes or not? Right or wrong doesn't mean anything! it is all about who has the power. I believe that the Scots had a saying for that? "He who can, Takes!" It hasn't ever changed in the course of history.
I do too!
Should include Obama’s crimes against humanity in Syria and Lybia
Right now is the time when people realize that international law is important for our human rights.
I remember asking my teacher about why did a handful of nations get single veto power in a group called the United nations.
She was a dumbass, she said that we and the few others have that power in case there's a bad decision. Haha "democracy".
Not all boomers but many have been brainwashed about this and that's why they don't see our war crimes.