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Postiogan Owain Llwyd » Maw 24 Gor 2007 3:51 pm

Rhods a ddywedodd:Mae'n rhaid i ti ddweud bod yr UDA di neud lot i helpu ni yn yr ail rhyfel byd


Ond nid pan oedd y bygythiad i Brydain ar ei fwyaf yn ystod 1940 ac 1941, naddo? Mi oedd Prydain a'r Gymanwlad wedi gwneud joban go lew ar eu pennau eu hunain bryd hynny (er bod Americanwyr unigol wedi hedfan ym Mrwydr Prydain). Mi allsai'r Unol Daleithiau fod wedi gwneud lot mwy i helpu tasan nhw ddim wedi aros i'r Almaen ddatgan rhyfel yn eu herbyn nhw yn gyntaf.
Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the Horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills, into Shadow.
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Postiogan Dili Minllyn » Maw 24 Gor 2007 6:58 pm

Ac mi fydden ni wedi bod yn y cachu go iawn heb y Rwsiaid (er nad oedd eu record nhw o wrthsefyll Natsïaeth yn rhyw anrhydeddus iawn cyn 1941 chwaith).
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Postiogan eryr y mor » Sul 29 Gor 2007 7:20 pm

Amharod iawn i ymuno yn y rhyfel oedd yr UDA cyn oedd ymosodiad arni gan Japan. Ar ol y digwyddiad hwnnw, wnaeth yr UDA ymgymryd a^'i ennill o les i bob un ohonom.
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Postiogan Dan Dean » Gwe 03 Awst 2007 9:19 pm

Rhobert Ap Wmffre a ddywedodd:Roedd Manifest Destiny rhan o'r un agwedd hiliol tu ôl i'r imperialaeth Brydeinig: sef yr "hawl" gan bobl wyn i ddwyn tir a chyfoeth oddiwrth brodorion "di-wareiddiedig" ac eu "cristioneiddio" nhw hefyd. Ond dydw i ddim yn gweld hyn ar rhan yr UDA fel bwriad i ddod yn "superpower" mewn synnwr cyfoes.


Newydd ddarganfod araith hynod ddifyr gan y Cadfridog Smedley Butler yn y 30au sydd yn dangos yr agwedd yma ar waith. Roedd Butler ar y pryd yn y soldiwr mwyaf addurnedig erioed i'r UDA. Edrych fel yr oedd ganddo gywilydd o fod yn rhan o'r fath beth. Dyma ddyfyniad:

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.


A mae'r "racketeering" yma wedi para tan heddiw ac yn dal i fynd ymlaen.
Tegid easy, I may owe you 150 Euros, Bedwyr Hefin fun, and as the Welsh say, "mae bob dim yn Llifon esmwyth"

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