FINAL WARNING: The Communist Agenda
sufficient air bombardment, fighters, reconnaissance so that I could
have taken out all those supplies, those airdromes on the other side of
the Yalu; I could have bombed the devils between there and Mukden,
stopped the railroad operating and the people of China that were
fighting could not have been supplied ... But we weren’t permitted to
do it. As a result, a lot of American blood was spilled over there in
Korea.”Gen. Stratemeyer testified before the Congress: “You get in war to win
it. You do not get in war to stand still and lose it and we were required
to lose it. We were not permitted to win.” Gen. Matt Clark told them: “I
was not allowed to bomb the numerous bridges across the Yalu River
over which the enemy constantly poured his trucks, and his munitions,
and his killers.”MacArthur would later write:“I was ... worried by a series of directives from Washington which
were greatly decreasing the potential of my air force. First I was
forbidden ‘hot’ pursuit of enemy planes that attacked our own.
Manchuria and Siberia were sanctuaries of inviolate protection for
all enemy forces and for all enemy purposes, no matter what
depredations or assaults might come from there. Then I was
denied the right to bomb the hydroelectric plants along the Yalu
River. This order was broadened to include every plant in North
Korea which was capable of furnishing electric power to
Manchuria and Siberia ... Most incomprehensible of all was the
refusal to let me bomb the important supply center at Racin,
which was not in Manchuria or Siberia, but many miles from the
border ... (where) the Soviet Union forwarded supplies from
Vladivostok for the North Korean Army. I felt that step-by-step my
weapons were being taken away from me...”“That there was some leak in intelligence was evident to
everyone. (Brig. Gen. Walton) Walker continually complained to
me that operations were known to the enemy in advance through
sources in Washington ... information must have been relayed to
them assuring that the Yalu River bridges would continue to
enjoy sanctuary and that their bases would be left intact. They
knew they could swarm down across the Yalu River without