Let's stop the whimperingthe (unfortunately named) mr. Krauthammer, of course, is not a nut shunned by civilized society who speaks only at John Birch Society dinners, nor he simply rants on LGF from a damp basement with a DSL connection. he is a syndicated columnist (appearing, among many other papers, in that famous bastion of the "liberal" "media", the Washington Post) whose business, post- 9/11, is thriving. his opinions do indeed belong to the American mainstream.
There are calls for the United States, with all this worldwide publicity, to simply shut [Guantanamo] down.
A terrible idea. One does not run and hide simply because allegations have been made. If the charges are unverified allegations, as they overwhelmingly are in this case, then they need to be challenged. The United States ought to say what it has done and what it has not done, and not simply surrender to rumor.
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If the prisoners had to have reading material, I would have given them the book "Portraits 9/11/01" — vignettes of the lives of those massacred Sept. 11.
For Kiev and for all of Ukraine, 1942 was the year of deportation into bondage.
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On posters, in newspapers and in official orders Germany was never termed anything but "beautiful." Photos were published showing the lives of Ukrainians in beautiful Germany. There they were, distinguished in their suits and hats, flourishing canes, going to restaurants, cabarets and the movies after work; here was a young fellow buying flowers in a German flower shop for his sweetheart; and there was his master's wife, affectionately and solicitously mending his shirt.
Here is an except from the article entitled, "Reflections on the Reichmarschall's [Goering's] Speech":With the exceptions of a few ridiculous letters from spoiled mama's boys, the Ukraine is receiving an enormous number of letters in which our workers express contentment. These are our own Ukrainians, who realize that the war has affected Germany's food supplies. These are our own Ukrainians, who do not look only into their own dinner pails. . . .Here are some passages from girls' letters which were cut out by censors and later discovered in German files:
At home in the Ukraine we may often hear complaints that Adolf Hitler is taking people away to work in Germany. But to secure final victory, Germany is not demanding any greater sacrifice from the Ukrainian people than the Germans themselves are making on a far, far greater scale.
And so, brothers, I should like to talk to you quote honestly and frankly. I'm ashamed of all those who rail at Germany. when I read the Reichmarschall's speech I was more ashamed than I had ever been in my whole life.. . . If anyone lagged, paused or moved to one side, the police opened fire. The father of two children jumped off the moving train on the way from Kiev. The Polizei stopped the train, overtook the fleeing man, shot him in the back and killed him. we were taken to the toilet under armed guard, and anyone who tried to escape was shot.
We were kept in the bath house until three in the afternoon. I stood there shivering, and toward the end almost fainted. The men and women bathed together in the bath house. I was burning with embarrassment. Germans walked up to the naked girls, felt their breasts and hit them in sensitive parts. anyone who cared could come in and humiliate us. we are slaves, and they can do what they like with us. There is no food. Nor is there any hope of ever coming home.
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