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During WWII, the Japanese were searching for a way to demoralize the American forces that they faced. Their "Psychological Warfare" experts came up with a message that they thought would work well. They gave the script to their famous broadcaster "Tokyo Rose" and everyday she would broadcast this same message packaged in various ways hoping to have an impact on American GI morale.

What was the message? It had three main points:

      1. Your President is lying to you.

      2. This war is illegal.

      3. You cannot win the war.

Sound familiar?

Maybe it's because Tokyo Hillary, Tokyo Harry, Tokyo Teddy, Tokyo Nancy, Tokyo John, Tokyo Howard, etc, have picked up the same message and are broadcasting it to our troops. The only difference is that they claim to support our troops before they demoralize them.

Come to think of it, Tokyo Rose used to tell the troops she was on their side.

They gave the script to their famous broadcaster "Tokyo Rose" and everyday she would broadcast this same message packaged in various ways hoping to have an impact on American GI morale..

You might want to do some research. For a start, there was no broadcaster on Radio Tokyo named "Tokyo Rose." There was Iva Toguri, who was coerced to broadcast under the name "Orphan Ann." She was an American of Japanese descent who'd been sent to take care of her grandmother, then got stuck in Japan when the war began. Her broadcasts were written by an American and an Australian, POWs who worked with her to slip in subversive messages. They were both cleared of charges after the war and, in fact, promoted. Iva was also cleared immediately after the war, but Walter Winchell wouldn't let it go and the government ended up convicting her on one charge, of broadcasting that some US ships had been sunk. She did five years or so as a model prisoner, then moved to Chicago where she worked (and I believe still does) at her family's store. She was pardoned by Gerald Ford,