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Alive and safe, the brutal Japanese soldiers who butchered 20,000 Allied seamen in cold blood
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | November 3, 2007 | NIGEL BLUNDELL

Posted on 11/03/2007 6:56:30 PM PDT by Stoat

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To: Rb ver. 2.0
True. Some day China will get back (or at least give their best shot) at Japan for some of the things that happened during WW2. Think about it ....China is still after Taiwan, even though it is almost 60 years (well, 58) after the Kuomintang (with Chiang Kai-shek as the leader) fled to Taiwan! Even though Taiwan is not worth it to China (based on the effort it would take and the risk it entails if things head south), apart from the socio-political aspects, China still appears to be totally sold to the idea of taking Taiwan over.

Anyways, my point is this ....what do you think their plans are for Japan? A nation that killed millions upon millions of their citizens in rather gruesome ways. Well, China may have killed just as many of its own citizens (maybe more) over the years, but just because a nation is willing to kill its own people doesn't mean it will let another nation do the same. I'd bet a sizeable amount that one day China will seek to return the 'favor' to Japan, and knowing the Chinese it will probably have sufficient interest and a batch of baking powder added to it. I just hope that Japan continues to take the serious attention to its defence that it currently does (pound for pound one of the most effective militaries around), although to be VERY honest I can see why the Chinese would want to hit back (imagine if the Japanese had killed 20 million + Americans, and that we had done nothing about it because we were not in a position to do anything. Now imagine a situation where we are rapidly approaching a position to do something about it. A prudent man would say that revenge is not wise, but I'm certain there would still be some who would take the first opportunity at retribution. Let's say Japan needs to ensure its military stays sharp)

321 posted on 11/05/2007 12:12:05 AM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: Wiz
The term “Japs” is no different from calling African Americans “N*ger”. I hope you don’t use such a racist term again.

The N word is racist. "Jap" is an abbreviation. Not polite, but not racist.

322 posted on 11/05/2007 12:36:30 AM PST by Jeff Chandler ("The bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles until their dying day," -Karl Marx)
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To: maineman
Never! Deep down, the Japs are nothing more than crazed animals. What about the death marches? Such acts of satan can never be forgiven.
Uuuuum... ever heard of "projection"? Japan then and Japan now are completely different.
323 posted on 11/05/2007 1:00:19 AM PST by ketsu
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To: Jeff Chandler
The N word is racist. "Jap" is an abbreviation. Not polite, but not racist.
Yes it is. Even the "N word" is just an more easily pronounced "abbreviation" of another word.
324 posted on 11/05/2007 1:05:17 AM PST by ketsu
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To: Minutemen
The Japanese also interned civilians ~ not just military ~ and your chances of survival as a civilian internee under the Japanese were FAR HIGHER than your chances of survival as a civilian prisoner under the Germans, particularly if you were Jewish or Polish.

You can't focus solely on the survival rate of POWs under the Germans and ignore the survival rate of civilians under the Germans.

Besides, if the Germans had managed to gain a stalemate, or, Heaven forbid, win the war, those POWs would have been disposed of like so much rubbish.

This started with my point that ALL the pukes on THE OTHER SIDE were absolutely dreadful during WWII.

325 posted on 11/05/2007 3:16:16 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: PzLdr

Your Eastern and Southern European POWs definitely had a problem with the Germans didn’t they now.


326 posted on 11/05/2007 3:18:41 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
This started with my point that ALL the pukes on THE OTHER SIDE were absolutely dreadful during WWII.
That's not true. You can certainly make the case that the leaders of each side were genuinely horrible many Japanese and German soldiers took great personal risks to do the right thing. You could certainly argue that they were the exception but words like "ALL" are very dangerous.
327 posted on 11/05/2007 3:24:09 AM PST by ketsu
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To: Ultra Sonic 007; Wiz; DTogo; ImaGraftedBranch; pissant; Calpernia; imahawk
The American Left does this today ~ they refuse to acknowledge their very active part in the Cambodian Holocaust as well as how they assisted the NVA in driving more than a million South Vietnamese into the sea where more than half a million drowned.

Many of their victims are still alive and living in Fairfax County VA.

328 posted on 11/05/2007 3:25:14 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: ketsu
ALL is pret'nearly correct ~ which is definitely unfortunate.

Makes me very happy they lost the war.

329 posted on 11/05/2007 3:43:09 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: jwh_Denver
That’s your comfort? You’re out of your effing mind.

Yep, that's my comfort. I know these people can never be brought to justice on this earth--after all, are we going to catch and dissect alive an 85-year-old Japanese man? Would that make things alright again? No. So there is no earthly recompense for what they did. But God is just and will exact from them the penalty they genuinely deserve. They are old; it won't be long now. If you don't believe in God, heaven, and hell, okay. If you think that those of us who do are out of our minds, that's fine too. Eventually we'll all find out what the truth is.

330 posted on 11/05/2007 4:27:20 AM PST by Fairview ( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
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To: muawiyah

You’re forgetting the Soviets, who were worse than the Nazis.


331 posted on 11/05/2007 4:30:03 AM PST by Loud Mime (Life was better when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers could not)
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To: SubmarineNuke

Jap is short for Japanese. It’s akin to using “Brit” or Mex or Aussie or Viet or Dane or Swede or Rus.....


332 posted on 11/05/2007 4:34:17 AM PST by Loud Mime (Life was better when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers could not)
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To: Loud Mime
The Soviet Union was larger and had several times the population of Germany. All in all they weren't as nasty proportionally speaking.

It's good the Germans lost.

333 posted on 11/05/2007 4:39:33 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Loud Mime

“Nip” is short for “Japanese”. “Jap” was what the enemy was called.


334 posted on 11/05/2007 4:40:45 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
My family was from Poland. The Katyn Forest Massacre and the Soviet's tactics in "liberating" Warsaw were notable achievements of socialism - a government that must take so it can give.
335 posted on 11/05/2007 4:52:25 AM PST by Loud Mime (Life was better when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers could not)
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To: Loud Mime

No doubt the USSR got WWII in Poland off to a big start. Still, it wasn’t long until the Germans caught up and then far surpassed the Russians in brutality and murder.


336 posted on 11/05/2007 4:57:10 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Wiz

If you read everything I said in this thread, you will see that I mentioned how they hated the Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals and were far worse to them than they were to POW’s. That’s what I meant. I know only too well about the holocaust and my heart has always been with the Jews, those who suffered there and those today who are in danger in Israel. I was talking about the difference between the Japs and the Germans as far as the American military was concerned. Nothing else. Please read carefully that and my other posts. You are NOT correct in your assumptions here, my friend.


337 posted on 11/05/2007 7:16:51 AM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: muawiyah

I know they were. It was all part of their occultic practices. But they still hated homosexuals in their own perverted way. Sounds like muzzies, eh? Muzzies booger their little boys and then kill homosexuals for practicing it? Hmm. Don’t go to Iran if you’re gay.


338 posted on 11/05/2007 7:19:14 AM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: cowdog77

You are so right and they have not changed one bit, they are just waiting for the right to attack others again, not just the USA. Truman should have dropped the third bomb on them.


339 posted on 11/05/2007 7:51:17 AM PST by lolhelp
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To: Stoat

Sorry, Stoat. I missed this ping. Just FYI - pinged out the thread that was reposted today (by another FReeper).


340 posted on 11/05/2007 1:24:27 PM PST by indcons
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