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2006-12-06 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2006-12-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 MACARTHUR [paraphrased] to post-surrender Japanese >"Either govern yourselves for yourselves, or the US Army will govern for you the Army way" - politely diplomatically, firmly emphatically..

VERSUS

BAVARIAN GOVERNATOR GEN. PATTON to ex-Nazis > "Do anything wrong or agz the Occupation Forces-Govt and I'LL HAVE YOU IMMEDIATELY SHOT, OR HUNG FROM THE NEAREST TREE/GALLOWS. YOUR CORPSE HAS THE RIGHT TO COMPLAIN TO EISENHOWER".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-12-06 01:42|| 2006-12-06 01:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Wierdly and mysteriously, the predom majority of post-Surrender Japanese or post-Surrender Germans didn't cause any serious troubles for either Mac or Patton. Even local attempts at armed or violent underground resistance to the Allied Occupation didn't last very long.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-12-06 01:50|| 2006-12-06 01:50|| Front Page Top

#3 "local attempt at armed ... resistance" in the first few months after the German surrender, the US occupiers mobilized 50,000 troops to go house to house in part of Germany to find weapons that could be used against the occupation troops after a few incidents. The US spent several years prior to 1945 training thousands of officers for civil affairs posts in occupied Germany. The US has never had enough troops in Iraq to do a similar weapons sweep and has never had enough civil affairs people available.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-12-06 06:08|| 2006-12-06 06:08|| Front Page Top

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