[AmericanInTokyo]

It went from senso shinai or senso hantai position, as you rightly observe, to a strong support of the USA nearly overnight. It is incredible. Bottom line: They respect strength, and they also, I believe, in the last few days saw contrasting images of American benevolence and genuine kindness and good faith towards Iraqi prisoners taken, and on the other hand they saw American POWs laying lifeless after execution by Iraqi war criminals.

If--Lord FORBID!--Iraq launches chems against the good guys, watch Japanese grassroots support to soar for the USA to nearly 90% IMHO.

[11B3]

I wonder what the public opinion in Japan would be if in response to an Iraqi WMD attack, we nuked the Iraqis.

[Uncle Jaque]

Re.: "They respect strength, and they also, I believe, in the last few days saw contrasting images of American benevolence and genuine kindness and good faith towards Iraqi prisoners taken, and on the other hand they saw American POWs laying lifeless after execution by Iraqi war criminals."

You mean, sort of like this:

[Uncle Jaque]

Here is the caption for the photo of a wounded Iraqi I just posted:

From: PHOTOS - Operation FREE IRAQ.

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  "A U.S. Marine helps an injured POW moments after securing the port of Um Qusar in southern Iraq, Sunday, March 23, 2003."

The contrasting photos can probably be found elsewhere here; I do not want to see them, really.

UJ in ME