I am denying nothing whatever - I am saying what I have said throughout - that the War had nothing to do with "Gallant Little Belgium" or the greatly exaggerated atrocities that undoubtedly occurred - it was an Imperial war - a war for political and economic dominance and was always referred to as such.
That fact eventually led to the fall of the system of empires
You have decided which authorities are have rejected those which don't support your Colonel Blimpism - call them liars and revisionists - even those who served in the war and wrote about it extremely movingly - Graves, Sassoon... and those "lying" soldiers who returned traumatised and disgusted at what they had been tricked into - all "liars".
If humanitarianism had featured in any way in the thinking of the dinosaurs who ran the world in those days the powers that be would have intervened to stop the systematic slaughter of ten million Congolese by "Gallant Little Belgium" - they were fully aware of the events taking place in the Congo and never raised a murmur of protest - 10,000,000 human beings systematically murdered and not a single statement of protest by Britain, the US, France..... why - you have not once responded to these crimes?
Come off it Keith - the Empire is dead and its crimes and atrocities are now fully acknowledged except by those of you who yearn for the "days of greatness".
You've had legitimate evidence in volumes - you have rejected it all because it doesn't fit with the pathetic little scoops of the opinions of a military journalist - sop do not claim that nobody has given you anything in return for you historically out-dated rantings,
For you - the war is over Tommy
Jim Carroll