And you know for a fact that they didn't "surrender" like the terrorists in Iraq do? Feigning death to kill more of our soldiers? There's no way those "atrocities" the Americans were accused of even come close to what the Japanese did to their prisoners. I don't doubt that the soldiers did things that some would find distateful, but to equate the two is unreal. Considering the pressure those men faced on the field and what they knew about Japanese treatment of people, I don't think anyone who hasn't been there is in any position to criticise their behavior.
That kind of attitude making Americans look just as bad is disgusting and smacks of the anti-American setiment displayed by the America hating left today like Jane Fonda and Michael Moore. They want perfect little sodiers who behave in the prefect little leftist way while fighting a war; a way that would put the life of every other soldier on the line. Prisoners are treated like guests and we're the bad guys. It's equivalent to spitting in the face of those men who suffered and died to give us the freedom to speak our mind.
Lindbergh said (remember, he was there) than when rewards were offered by our commanders to bring in prisoners, then they got prisoners. When there were no rewards offered, then no prisoners.
There's no way those "atrocities" the Americans were accused of even come close to what the Japanese did
I didn't say they did.
That kind of attitude making Americans look just as bad is disgusting and smacks of the anti-American setiment displayed by the America hating left today like Jane Fonda and Michael Moore.
I'd settle for the truth. The only two pieces of evidence I have that this occured are Lindberghs writing (he was pretty upset that this was going on), and the mantra repeated endlessly that "the Japs never surrendered, the japs never surrendered", which sounds like a justification if what Lindbergh witnessed was true.
The GIs who where there are dying, and the truth of their stories along with them. We'll see if any one of them have the guts of this Japanese guy that confessed about what he did.
In 1943, the Eighth Air Force in England lost tens of thousands of airmen because they were trying to make daylight bombing work. Daylight bombing let them hit the targets better, and spare civilians at least to some extent. By 1945 over Japan, the B-29s were running firebomb raids on cities like Tokyo, where the only possible military goal was to destroy their economy, by killing as many civilians as possible. Quite a change.
The left is making political hay, attempting to make the US look bad for Gitmo and putting underwear on prisoners heads. On the other extreem, you're willing to excuse shooting a soldier, wearing the uniform of his country, carrying a white flag. I have no use for either of those extreem opinions.