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To: jackliberty
Very good point regarding our POWs. The Japanese government hasn't even really apologized for it much less give compensation to the POWs. The Japanese always complain about the bomb every August, but they quickly forget their countless atrcoties against peoples such as the Chinese or the Koreans.

Real Japanese people are quite racist (and sexist). When I was there, I wasn't allow to go into a resturant because I was white! Imagine that here! Ask any real Koreans or Chinese if the Japanese like them.

35 posted on 02/06/2003 12:47:31 PM PST by Barney Gumble ((fighting for a objective media))
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To: Barney Gumble
Very good point regarding our POWs

It wasn't just POWs. American civilians captured when Japan took Wake Island were sent to the homeland to be used as slave labor as well.

The relocation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans was not the "inhumane" episode it's been portrayed as. It was a prudent step (as viewed in 1942) that was handled better by this country than it would have been by any other country.

The Japanese-Americans who blame us for the policy should, instead, blame Japan for their plight.

Why don't we hear any complaints from the 10,000 Germans or 3,200 Italians interred? Especially since they weren't returned home until 1948 when the Japanese were returned in 1946. Why hasn't their plight become a cause celebre (sp)?

40 posted on 02/06/2003 1:28:01 PM PST by jackliberty
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