Replies to post #4064 on Foreign Correspondence

[Ace Hanlon]

Most Americans still do not know the incredible brutality of both sides of the 1941-45 Pacific War.

Japanese people were routinely depicted as apes or monkeys by US propaganda. Both sides killed and tortured prisoners on a regular basis.

But here is the kicker.

A 1944 Gallup public opinion poll conducted at the height of the figthing showed that nearly a fifth of the US populace supported the idea of totally exterminating the Japanese race -- some 70 million people at that time.

That is what years of savage fighting and unrelenting racist hate propaganda can do.

Sound familiar?

And all this under the great liberal FDR.