Last Voyage of the Lusitania

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• Posted 08/02/10 by Leotis
  I haven't watched this movie but i can tell you why the germans torpedoed it. They did it because they said they would. They took out an ad in The New York Times saying that they would torpedoe any ship in those waters. Of course when the ad ran it was small and in the back. This was also well known to the U.S. government and they sent the ship there anyway. Why? To get us involved in the war. Just like when we provoked the Japanese to attack us and acted shocked when it happened. War makes the banksters money, plain and simple.
• Posted 01/03/10 by starmanskye
  Agreed re: crude revisionary psyop propaganda; The producer never even mentions the apparently-forbidden word 'guncotton' which is the most logical cause of Lusitania's abrupt sinking. This is the conclusion reached by the most rigorous forensic investigators who weren't constrained by alterior motives to blame Germany for an act of war.Of course, Germany as the initial, precipitating belligerant who started the war MUST accept primary responsibility for the fact of war and its horrible consequences. But the movie's overall conclusion is spot on: altogether, the Lusitania's sinking was an apalling show by humanity, whose members continue thru today to be misled, provoked, manipulated and decieved into waging disasterous, horrific wars despite the rhetoric of governments declaring their earnest desire for peace. Sadly, tragically, too many nations -- the US foremost among them -- are addicted to war. The US ruling oligarchy has become masterful at inventing one justification after another for armed conflicts, interventions, covert ops, low intensity warfare, invasions, occupations, bombings and assassinations, even 'legalizing' its actions when necessary to absolve itself of blame for actions it has condemned other nations for. It has also engaged in numerous False Flag ops, similiar to Germany's Burning of the Reichstag which ushered in WW II. It is a fact too-little known by Americans that hundreds of US corporations and many citizens invested in and/or aided Germany's war-making and buildup -- acts of treason that were rarely prosecuted and those involved not held accountable for.
• Posted 11/28/09 by tuttello
  A very well presented documentary giving the known facts and accounts of the incident via survivors, eye witnesses and media data from the period. I found the content totally engrossing at at times very moving. I was especially moved by the graphic photographic content hi-lighting the young children who died during the incident. I came across this film purely by chance whilst searching other historical data and felt totally compelled to endorse accordingly as a mark of respect to all people who were and have since been touched by these events. Regardless of blame it was a monumental trajedy in no way diminished by time.
• Posted 10/24/09 by Daijhi
  Nice effort by the Americans to whitewash the incident - a coal dust explosion and not the munitions the presenter concludes. But without an examination of the starboard side of the hull there can be no evidence of that. It is convenient speculation. And there is no mention of the repeated mining of the area by the Royal Navy as 'target practice' throughout the 1950's when it was already a designated war grave. Why were the British so keen to destroy the evidence? The Lusitania stinks - and this program tries to hide that.