[lbo-talk] Re: Churchill update

[Thomas Brown]

Charles Brown wrote:
>
>If I can get a clarification, is Thomas Brown claiming that the U.S.
>Army distributed smallpox-infested blankets to Mexican Indians, but that 
>the
>U.S. Army didn't know they were smallpox-infested ? Or is Brown saying the
?U.S. Army just did not in fact distribute smallpox-infested blankets to
>Mexican Indians at all ?

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That's covered in my essay at: http://hal.lamar.edu/~browntf/Churchill1.htm

The core argument is that Churchill, to support his accusation of smallpox
blanket genocide,  fabricated non-existent historical events and characters,
and concealed disconfirming evidence in his cited sources.

I also have an op-ed on the political aspects of the controversy up
at HNN: http://hnn.us/articles/10633.html

thomas