Posted on 03/04/2007 2:53:43 AM PST by LibWhacker
One can only speculate. I don't like their attitude either, but I'm not about to engage in the very thing that I'm reprimanding someone else for.
Regardless of what may, or may not, be transpiring over there, I think narby is flying solo on this, and to me, that's even more disturbing, since it's being done with genuine conviction.
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Excuse my french but this guy is one sick f$@!.
You gripe about what we say, now you're griping about what we aren't saying?
Coyotes will stop and wait for the humans to stop before resuming their howling session, once they've figured out that it isn't another coyote that has been calling to them.
Thought you may find this appropriate...
I hear ya. War crimes hell. BS. We are being too PC as it is with our enemies. I say if you want to build schools and hand out candy call in the charitable agencies. Soldiers are trained to fight, or should be. I'm against our military being used for nation building, especially when we haven't completely conquered the enemy yet./rant
I'm not sure who mentioned it upthread, but there had to have been a challenge of where to put thousands of prisoners on the islands of the South Pacific. In time of war, when your enemy is not going to give up and will perhaps cannibalize you if you are captured, it wouldn't be at all surprising if there were orders to shoot prisoners.
This irritates me, ohiofan. You have indicated this quite a few times on this thread, i.e. that Lindburgh and narby are right, our troops DID slaughter Japs under a white flag.
I don't believe this was general practice at all. Certainly not the norm. My father was a WW2 pacific war vet, he said it was rare indeed to see a Jap under a white flag, and if so you didn't shoot them.
We were up against Shinto Fascists operating under the Bushito code. Every bit as suicide fanatical as the Islamo-fascists. How many was it, three or four thousand kamikazis flown against our fleet in Okinawa? Such kamikazi mentality is typical of the Bushido code used by the entire Jap military.
Was this the case or not? Has all the WW2 literature purposely lied to us about the typical Jap fight to the death mentality? I think not.
Why concede narby and Lingbergh's point about shooting Japs under the white flag? Truth is, under Bushido the Japs were brainwashed to fight to the death with NO surrender!
What few did, I believe we have evidence from war records that we actually did take prisoners.
I don't believe that I 'indicated it quite a few times' but I'm not going back to check it out. I think you have misunderstood me here.
I have made my point clear that narby, citing Lindbergh as a truth teller and refusing to back down in spite of ZERO corroboration from any military eyewitnesses and refusing to concede that Lindbergh at best is a suspect witness, was and is, irresponsible.
Perhaps you can read the rest of my posts here and see that.
I have no idea what went on, but the one thing I know is that our men were honorable and brave, and that the enemy was brutal and sadistic.
I don't know what more I need to say beyond that.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to add more google links on the subject of American Atrocities in WWII.
I was not at the location where my copy of the book is located, but I am now. I will post again soon.
That you would treat this subject with such disrespect, tells me a lot about who you are as a person, narby.
I was not at the location where my copy of the book is located, but I am now. I will post again soon.
You do, whatever it is you think is right.
...and so will I
Not to take the wind out of anyone's sails, but Tokyo and Kyoto were hit. Research Curtis Le May's incendiary bombing campaign.
Part of the reason Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen as A-Bomb targets was the fact they had been pretty much left alone and would give a better idea of how damaging the bombs were.
If the objective is to capture prisoners, that can be done, even against the most determined foe.
It is easier, however, in the absence of a reason/perceived need to go to the effort and personal risk to capture an enemy combatant, to just kill them and get it over with.
It is likely you only got part of that story. The Chinese were notorious for rounding up the population of a village and marching them ahead of their attacking force.
I have it on good authority (a relative's personal account) that the machine gunners and riflemen tried to miss the civillians, but the enemy force had to be stopped.
Needless to say, some civillians got killed in the crossfire.
Doubtless, the Chinese contributed to that toll.
True to a point.
Of the over 22,000 Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima, 20,703 died, and 216 were captured. That's about 1% and most of those were literally too sick or wounded to resist in any way.
At Masada I'm pretty sure the Romans didn't end up with any prisoners. Not that they would have taken any, but you see my point.
Hope all is well with you.
L
What happened to the rest? 20,919 accounted for, a few came out of the weeds years later, were the rest 'unrecoverable'?
The way that place was shelled and bombed, it would not surprise me.
http://www.wtj.com/articles/gabaldon/
On the subject of prisoners, or the lack there of.
Very interesting man Guy Gabaldon.
Impressive fellow. Tremendous guts. Thank you for the link.
Even though I was in the Corps, I never once heard the story of this guy.
Amazing.
L
According to other freepers, and Wikipedia, you're spot on about Tokyo being all but crushed by conventional bombing. However, Kyoto was supposed to have been one of the targets for a nuclear strike. It was deselected because of its heavy cultural impact on Japan (the cultural and traditional capital of Japan).
Is there a way to look at things recently added to a computer (small things, not entire programs, such as plugins, patches, updates, etc.)? Is there some sort of log?
As for your 'green' question, in Win XP, use the 'search' function, 'all files and folders' click on when was it modified, specify the dates, and see what pops up.
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