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100,000 People Perished, but Who Remembers?
The New York Times ^ | March 14, 2002 | HOWARD W. FRENCH

Posted on 03/14/2002 8:01:56 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy

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To: AzJP
Actually King George did try to kill one of my ancestors and his entire family for signing the NY Articles of Discontent.

After the despot George read the articles of discontent, he sent Redcoat Marines to erradicate the signers of that historical paper. So historical, those who signed were considered to be the first Warriors of the Revolutionary War.

My ancestor, his wife and 5 daughters fled NY to go western Va. keep from being killed. There were no roads, no Amtrac, no bridges across the many rivers. They fled the redcoat marines like the lucky Chinese did before your gang of killers caught murdered and raped those who didn't flee.

King George would have been a friend/hero of you if he had been Japanese. Heck, he is probably on a shrine with the rest of your Japanese rapist/killer heros of WWII.

Keep posting your inane defenses of the Killer Japanese in WWII. What made you happier, the Rape of Nanking or Pearl Harbor or the Bataan Death March. You probably have wet dreams after you read about those atrocities!

So sit in your Honda and eat your Japanese Rice and dream about the good old days of Japanese Imperialism where your guys ruled the world, until we killed them!

41 posted on 03/14/2002 9:10:29 AM PST by Grampa Dave
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To: Bubba_Leroy
The Japanese got EXACTLY what They DESERVED!They waged war (with their AXIS Partners)on The World!!The only way to end a war is to utterly and completely destroy your enemies and their will and ability to resist defeat!!!The Japanese had a number of opportunities to surrender!!!!The problem was that that word(Surrender)wasn't in their vocabulary!!!!!!!!!!
42 posted on 03/14/2002 9:12:02 AM PST by bandleader
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To: Junior
The historian evidently has never had a chemistry course. I suggest that he wonder over to buildings 6 or 18 and ask if white phosphorous is a napalm derivative, What ein moron!
43 posted on 03/14/2002 9:14:07 AM PST by Righty1
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To: Rebelbase
Your reference discusses "domestic upheaval" and eroding "morale" in Japan.
But they think they had over two thousand horses available for island defense. Impressive.
And I don't know where you get the "pacifist" nonsense. Our subs loitering around the perimeters of Japan sinking anything that smelled like Japanese support was far from pacifism. That blockade was essential to stopping the Japanese war machine.
44 posted on 03/14/2002 9:15:30 AM PST by AzJP
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To: Grampa Dave
I defended "Killer Japanese"?

Grampa, I proposed what might have been a more efficient (saving American lives, I kinda' like that) method of stopping the war. Bombing Japan was not without American fatalities.

But if you're happy with ever increasing size of federal government (uniformed or not) fine.

And I'm glad your relatives escaped the horrors of those foreigners attacking and killing citizens on home soil. Both King George and the Japanese military (and you?) were gung-ho on killing.
Meanwhile, my rice in the kitchen comes from socialist California. (oops! Are you in the rice business?)
Tundra and Honda from USA.
And I kinda' enjoyed watching Kwan and Ono skate in the Olympics.....glad we didn't nail their relatives!

45 posted on 03/14/2002 9:29:42 AM PST by AzJP
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To: stuartcr
Is fanatically honorable good or bad...

Honorable is good but it can be misused to support evil, such as the Prussian officers supporting Hitler's regime.

46 posted on 03/14/2002 9:36:41 AM PST by FormerLib
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To: AzJP
Guess what happens when you don't eliminate your enemies? You still have enemies. Pretty simple, no?
47 posted on 03/14/2002 9:45:26 AM PST by sinclair
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To: AzJP
"Grampa, I proposed what might have been a more efficient (saving American lives, I kinda' like that) method of stopping the war. Bombing Japan was not without American fatalities.

Did it ever occur to you that just perhaps the idea was to limit TOTAL casualties---both American AND Japanese?? How many MILLIONS would the Japanese militarists have been willing to starve to death in such a blockade before surrendering?? You can bet that the Emperor and the higher-ups would have had their rice bowls filled, no matter what.

48 posted on 03/14/2002 9:53:38 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
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To: Bubba_Leroy
new york times building hit by hi-jacked plane!
but who cares?
49 posted on 03/14/2002 9:54:24 AM PST by rockfish59
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To: AzJP
Sure glad your apparent political party never has more than 1% of the population and vote.

How do you feel about the 3,000 Americans murdered on 9/11, or do you have some more homelies about hondas?

Are you Harry Browne, by chance?

50 posted on 03/14/2002 9:59:30 AM PST by Grampa Dave
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Let Us not forget about American and british bombing dresden in 1945. 120,000 people are said to have died..But like normal the proud and respective germans know who was in the wrong and dont belly ache about it.. We did was we had to.. Plain and simple.
51 posted on 03/14/2002 9:59:33 AM PST by daapfe
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To: Wonder Warthog
We would still be fighting the fanatics of Japan if they had not been bombed into total surrender, Unconditional!

This guy reminds of Patty Buckwheat or Harry Browne revising WWII history to suit their political agendas!

52 posted on 03/14/2002 10:02:12 AM PST by Grampa Dave
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To: AzJP
"But they think they had over two thousand horses available for island defense. Impressive"

From the link: "" The aggregate strength of the Homeland armies would...total 2,903,000 men, 292,000 horses, and 27,500 motor vehicles...." Also, I have read printed literature on the matter that put Japan's homeland defense reserve number of fighter planes in the thousands

"Your reference discusses "domestic upheaval" and eroding "morale" in Japan. "

Again, from the link.:

""The fundamental political reality is that it was Japanese, not American, leaders who controlled when and how the Pacific war would end. Those insisting that Japan's surrender could have been procured without recourse to atomic bombs cannot point to any credible supporting evidence from the eight men who effectively controlled Japan's destiny: the six members of the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Kido, and the Emperor. Not only has no relevant document been recovered from the wartime period, but none of them, even as they faced potential death sentences in war-crimes trials, testified that Japan would have surrendered earlier upon an offer of modified terms, coupled to Soviet intervention or some other combination of events, excluding the use of atomic bombs. "

Exiting the war with "honor" was paramount to the Japanese and they were willing to die for that cause alone. Is it better to starve a million people in a blocade over years and years time or kill 100,000 in one blast and force a surrender?

53 posted on 03/14/2002 10:06:21 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Grampa Dave
"Not a single Japanese fanatic, who was killed on a Japanese ship, sub, plane, on the ground, in a cave, in a tank or in Japan ever hurt another innocent person. "

Have you been spanked over this one yet, cause it ain't true....Nanking.

54 posted on 03/14/2002 10:11:06 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: aculeus
Also not an expert, but according to emedicine.com, napalm was developed in 1942 and dropped in 165 gallon containers, which could burn a 2500 square yard area. So it's certainly feasible that napalm could have been the agent.
55 posted on 03/14/2002 10:25:50 AM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: Rebelbase
Re read my reply again.

I said that not a single fanatic who was killed ever harmed another innocent after they were killed!

I'm sure that some racist Japanese Murderers and racists escaped final justice and lived.

However, it is a scientific fact that those who were killed, never harmed another innocent person after they were killed. Killing fanatics is the only sure cure to keep fanatics from hurting or killing innocent people.

56 posted on 03/14/2002 10:33:15 AM PST by Grampa Dave
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To: all

Remember, the dead Talibaners and al Queerdos, will never harm another innocent person again. The know cure for terrorism has been administered to those who assumed winter temp in Afghanistan!

57 posted on 03/14/2002 10:44:31 AM PST by Grampa Dave
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To: Grampa Dave
Doh!...I hate when that happens.
58 posted on 03/14/2002 11:01:47 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: AzJP
If we blockaded Japan, do you think that the ever-scarcer resources would have been shared by all until they decided to surrender? Not a chance. They would have been consumed by the army, just as Saddam is doing now. And the babies would have starved. The only difference is that back then there weren't so many squishy whiners. They would have condemned us for the starvation or for attacking, just as is done today, because some people just cannot recognize the existence of evil. There is no way to deal with it except to comfront and crush it. How many would have died of malnutrition? I'll bet many more than we vaporized from the air.
59 posted on 03/14/2002 11:10:35 AM PST by Glock22
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To: Rebelbase
Don't worry, we are on the same side. We all have our DOH moments.

I threw in my favorite cartoon on this issue and a few comments about the only way to cure terrorism!

60 posted on 03/14/2002 11:13:56 AM PST by Grampa Dave
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