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To The People Of The United States of America ( from Japanese Journalist )
Mainichi News ^ | 10/15/04 | Hiroaki Wada

Posted on 10/14/2004 7:16:59 PM PDT by sushiman

To the people of the United States of America, I am confused now, and here is the reason: President George W. Bush's reaction to the Oct. 6 final report compiled by the U.S.-led team of inspectors on their search for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) allegedly held by the regime of Saddam Hussein

(Excerpt) Read more at mdn.mainichi.co.jp ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: wmdreport
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Guys like this in the Japanese media have turned the majority of folks here against Mr. Bush .
1 posted on 10/14/2004 7:17:00 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: sushiman

Didn't read the article. Who cares what some nobody thinks.


2 posted on 10/14/2004 7:20:44 PM PDT by Gator Bill
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To: sushiman

The answer to his question is: YES.

Any other questions?


3 posted on 10/14/2004 7:23:23 PM PDT by Death and Taxes
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To: sushiman
You're posting all the great stuff tonight, aren't you?

Do you have a Michael Moore email for us next?

4 posted on 10/14/2004 7:24:56 PM PDT by MJY1288
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To: sushiman

Everyone thinks they know what's best for America. Foreigners should mind their own business. Btw, happy anniversary! I just had mine in April. I signed up just a few months before you did. Now, I'm totally addicted. LOL


5 posted on 10/14/2004 7:26:37 PM PDT by NRA2BFree
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However, the security situation in the country remains volatile one and half years after President Bush announced an end to major military operations in Iraq.

This guy needs to go back to his origami and leave the political analysis to the big boys.

Thank goodness his ilk weren't running the show during WW2. If the Allies had quit due to spinelessness at home after only one and a half, two, three or four years of war neither I nor my mother's side of the family would be alive. What a short attention spanned bunch of schmucks this world has become.

6 posted on 10/14/2004 7:29:00 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: sushiman
I am confused

Obviously.

7 posted on 10/14/2004 7:29:56 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: sushiman

This is why Japan has won no awards or otherwise even attracted any attention for the quality or originality or depth of its journalists. This reads like a college newspaper "think-piece".


8 posted on 10/14/2004 7:30:29 PM PDT by willyboyishere
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Guys like this in the Japanese media have turned the majority of folks here against Mr. Bush .

I think the real reason they-re anti-W is that they've never forgiven his father for hurling on Kichi Miyazawa.

Loss of lunch leads to loss of face.

9 posted on 10/14/2004 7:30:37 PM PDT by George Smiley (The only 180 that Kerry hasn't done is the one that would release ALL his military records.)
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Thank goodness his ilk weren't running the show during WW2.

They were.

That's why they lost.

10 posted on 10/14/2004 7:31:01 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Guys like this in the Japanese media have turned the majority of folks here against Mr. Bush

The Japanese media hardly have a lock on that. It's pretty much a global effort.

11 posted on 10/14/2004 7:32:14 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: sushiman

sayonara (sp?)


12 posted on 10/14/2004 7:33:17 PM PDT by vidbizz
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To: dead
They were. That's why they lost.

I meant running the US media.

13 posted on 10/14/2004 7:33:52 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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... It is true that no major terror attacks have taken place on the U.S. soil since that date. But in Turkey, Spain, Indonesia, Russia, Egypt, and Iraq, terrorism continues to claim too many lives.

Then maybe those countries need to get serious about killing terrorists.

President Bush says that is why he is waging the war on terror and confronting the ideology of hate that gives birth to terrorism by spreading peace and democracy. This position, however, cannot escape the fact that the Iraq war is now seen by many as a war without a just cause. To American people, I ask, do you think that this policy will really succeed in ending the vicious cycle of hatred?

Since your owncountry's got a bit of history with a "vicious cycle of hatred", perhaps you could answer your own question.

14 posted on 10/14/2004 7:33:55 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (...and Freedom tastes of Reality)
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The American war with Irag didn't start in 2003, it started in 1990 when Saddam's army invaded Kuwait, with the intent of then capturing Saudi Arabia's southern oil fields. Perhaps the writer of this article will understand the importance of oil, as it was the reason that Japan tried to create an empire in the 1930's, and when the USA slapped an oil embargo on Japan the Empire attacked the USA at Pearl Harbor.

The writer makes the mistake of believing that being "wrong" is the same as "lying". Or perhaps, he believes that Bush should've known that Iraz didn't have WMDs. However, in 2002, every country that had an intelligence team believed that Iraq had WMDs. That includes China, Japan, Britan, France, Russia, and Germany as well as the USA. There was not one nation on the face of the earth that believed that Iraq didn't have WMDs.

IN fact, Saddam didn't have stockpiles of weapons, but had kept his programs alive albeit in a dormant state. That was in the Dulfer report too.


15 posted on 10/14/2004 7:40:48 PM PDT by TWohlford
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16 posted on 10/14/2004 7:42:52 PM PDT by Chong (God Bless and Protect our Troops.)
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The main justification for the war - Hussein's possession of WMD - is gone...

(Patient sigh) No, that was not the main justification for the war. The main justification for the war was the suspicion that Saddam was activating WMD programs and that his refusal to cooperate with UN mandated inspections was indicative of ill intent. If the reporter had read the report instead of quoting selected second-source bits of it he'd have realized that the justification was valid.

Part of the problem a lot of people have with putting perspective on this is that they forget that Saddam had lost a war that he started and that there were conditions for his remaining in power that he flagrantly flouted. This thing didn't just happen, and it certainly didn't just happen because Bush fils wanted to avenge an attempt on Bush pere's life. The process was long, drawn-out, painful, and at the last unsustainable.

17 posted on 10/14/2004 7:47:13 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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(Causing injury to self by biting one's own tongue is not easy, I am finding out.)


18 posted on 10/14/2004 7:52:50 PM PDT by Chong (God Bless and Protect our Troops.)
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To: sushiman

Justification for war:

They were bad.

We are good.

We stopped them from hurting US before they could.

(Gee! That's almost a Haiku!...Who cares?)


19 posted on 10/14/2004 7:56:35 PM PDT by shibumi
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The Iraq war is now seen by many as a war without a just cause

I sent my opinion

I am one of the majority that will re-elect George Bush on Nov. 2. You ask, "Do you think that this policy will really succeed in ending the vicious cycle of hatred?" I can tell you as one of the victims of that cycle of hatred that American policy of inaction or little action for eight years made us a bigger target. Yes they killed 3000 on 9-11-01 but we also realize they were trying for more like 50,000 and things didn't go like they planned. You and other journalists like you , what do you want? Do you want an apology? Maybe we can send you a few headless corpses. We are going to go and kill terrorists, wherever they may be. We will send our sons and daughters, fathers and mothers while you who complain sit back and second guess us. We will fight and we will win. We don't give a crap how you "feel". If you want to fight, fine, we welcome your help but from you I seriously doubt it. You don't have the will and from the looks of most of our press in America you don't believe we have the will to fight. But you are wrong, our men and women in uniform are magnificent and we are free because of the brave. The press in this world has not told the truth of what we are really doing and the stories are there, you refuse to look. You run when there is trouble like little school girls, not to the real story but away from it.

20 posted on 10/14/2004 7:57:52 PM PDT by badpacifist
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