The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain

[shadowmayor]

9. And I doubt

You haven't considered the people in India who were massacred. Nor the Kurds and Arabs of today's Iraq who were bombed and gassed by the British under Churchill. I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. "I am strongly in favour of using poison gas against uncivilised tribes . . . to spread a lively terror" said Winston.

If you were or are British, the good man saved your bacon. If you were brown and under his boots, you were uncivilized and felt his wrath. The point is, the truth is not revisionist or bullshit. The fact that he saved Britain does not change the fact that he was the Colonial boot on the necks of the natives.