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Coventina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 09:57 AM Original message |
Sacked Japan air force head defends WWII actions |
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Botany (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
1. Does this guy know Bill Kristol? |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
2. And the US brought freedom... |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
3. "he believes Japan has been wrongly blamed for being an aggressor in World War II" |
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rexcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 10:37 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. More like a "preemptive attack"... |
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Titonwan (233 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
4. He is correct. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 11:05 AM Response to Reply #4 |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 11:36 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. oops!! critical thinking is on the verge of extinction |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 11:36 PM Response to Reply #13 |
27. Yes - and you're a prime example of the IDIOTS who are pushing this "poor innocent Japan" crap... |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 12:59 PM Response to Reply #27 |
43. ok, Thanks |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 11:26 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. wow, if you only knew your history. |
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Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 02:51 PM Response to Reply #4 |
17. The genocide of Teddy Roosevelt? |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
6. remember the winners alway write the history books n/t |
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caraher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
8. Pearl Harbor did happen for a reason |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 05:13 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. Yep. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 06:56 PM Response to Reply #8 |
20. WHY, pray tell, was the US enforcing an oil embargo on poor li'l Japan? nt |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 10:37 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Japan dared to hope they could lead Asia to defend itself against the West. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 10:46 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. LOL. You left out the little matter of genocide on the Asian mainland. |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 10:52 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. I deny nothing of the kind. |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 11:33 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. That's EXACTLY why there was an embargo, Sherlock! |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 11:54 AM Response to Reply #26 |
33. The Mexican War was also about slavery n/t |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 08:04 AM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Describing Japan's GENOCIDAL aggression in Asia as "self-defense" is tantamount to Holocaust denial. |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 11:45 AM Response to Reply #23 |
32. Fighting imperialism with imperialism! |
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Anarcho-Socialist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
9. I don't think Imperial Japan's infamous "comfort women" would agree n/t |
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Libertas1776 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
10. ... |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
11. so okay, by this morons reasoning, it was perfectly okay for Japan |
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JonQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
14. I think they were characterized as the aggressor |
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Veritas_et_Aequitas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
15. No, of course Japan wasn't an aggressor |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
16. Yes, It was real smart taking on the US! Until recently, for some reason, I had assumed |
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caraher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 10:23 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. By 1941 they had two options |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 04:10 PM Response to Reply #21 |
35. I think you contradicted yourself, saying that it's not hard to see why. |
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caraher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 11:52 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. I agree it was poor reasoning and ignorance |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 08:05 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Exactly. In the end, effectively, the "Mouse that Roared", as far as the US. |
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ngant17 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
18. Imperial Japan was part of the Axis w/Nazi Germany and fascist Italy |
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caraher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-01-08 10:27 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Actually, that sounds satisfying but would have been a disaster |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 01:52 AM Response to Original message |
28. The destruction of Japan's homeland was a hell of a benefit for them. |
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BreweryYardRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 05:39 AM Response to Original message |
29. Ah, no. |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
31. The question of who was the aggressor is the wrong question |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 03:21 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. If the Japanese aren't smart enough to quash their version of Holocaust Denial, |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 08:06 AM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Count on it. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 11:04 AM Response to Reply #34 |
42. China expresses indignation over essay justifying Japan aggression (Xinhua: 1 Nov 08) |
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Hanse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-02-08 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
37. He reminds me of people who apologize for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 08:21 AM Response to Reply #37 |
41. OMFG |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-03-08 08:20 AM Response to Original message |
40. Damn those troublemakers in Nanking! |
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