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Why did Gerald Ford pardon Tokyo Rose?
Posted on 12/28/2006 10:22:23 AM PST by fishtank
Why did Gerald Ford pardon Tokyo Rose?
Also, in 2004, George Takei, the manly man from Star Trek, said he's going to be making a movie called: "Tokyo Rose, American Patriot".
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I wanted to write more on this right now, but I have to go.... family stuff.
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:22:24 AM PST
by
fishtank
To: fishtank
Apparently, she was convicted based on some testimony that was later revealed to be highly suspect.
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:23:53 AM PST
by
Paradox
(Let's really defeat Global Warming, build 100 new Nuclear Powerplants! {crickets....})
To: fishtank
Because it felt good; he did it.
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:24:04 AM PST
by
rhombus
To: fishtank
Uh oh..... I'm sure when you get back, you will have all kinds of helpful comments.
To: fishtank
He did it to end Japan's long national nightmare.
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:25:07 AM PST
by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: fishtank
Can Bush pardon Donald Trump and Rosie O donnald so they can shut up?
To: fishtank
Why does sour cream have an experation date?
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:27:16 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: fishtank
It was the right thing to do. She apparently wasn't even the real "Tokyo Rose" and only collaborated with the Japanese to the extent that it allowed her to help US POW's, which she did. To hear what is evidently her real story, she should have got a medal, not a conviction.
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:27:35 AM PST
by
Argus
To: fishtank
Why do we drive on the parkway and park in the driveway?
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:27:55 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: fishtank
Hmmm... I thought George Takei was Tokyo Rose.
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:28:15 AM PST
by
Hatteras
To: fishtank
Why is a ball that hits the foul pole a home run?
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:28:24 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: fishtank
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:28:38 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: Alter Kaker
He did it to end Japan's long national nightmare.Oh crap, that is funny!
To: fishtank
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:29:42 AM PST
by
labette
(Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made ...)
To: fishtank
She always maintained (there were 17 "Roses", IIRC) that she was forced to do the broadcasts along with others the Japanese had captured. She was in Japan as a American student when the war broke out and could not come home.
George Takei is gay...........
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:29:55 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
To: fishtank
A much better question is. Why did Clintoon pardon so many serious criminals in his last days in office. Enough said.
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:30:39 AM PST
by
cquiggy
To: fishtank
Why did Gerald Ford pardon Tokyo Rose?
Because she wasn't Tokyo Rose?????? Nah that couldn't be it could it????
Also, in 2004, George Takei, the manly man from Star Trek, said he's going to be making a movie called: "Tokyo Rose, American Patriot".
And what the hell does THAT have to do with the original question????
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:31:20 AM PST
by
MikefromOhio
(Go Bucks!!!!)
To: fishtank
Tokyo Rose was never
a traitor by choice unlike Cindy Sheehan, Ramsey Clark and others of their ilk. She was visiting relatives in Japan when the war broke out and pressed into service. Even then, she refused to renounce her U.S. citizenship or cooperate with her captors, making minimal efforts to go along only reluctantly when she learned that Earl Warren and FDR had put her family in America into detention camps.
I don't agree with much of what Ford did, but he definitely made the right decision in pardoning her.
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:31:22 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: Hatteras
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:31:46 AM PST
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: HEY4QDEMS
Doesn't that make the foul pole the fair pole?
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posted on
12/28/2006 10:32:20 AM PST
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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