Posted on 07/24/2009 9:07:32 AM PDT by curth
I was thinking that too. Even if Obama didn't know the exact facts, a basic knowledge of Japanese culture should eliminate the thought of Hirohito signing.
Interestingly, it was the Emperor himself who figured out he was being fed lies and finally pulled rank and ordered the surrender. Fanatics, particularly in the army, almost pulled off a coup August 14-15, 1945 to prevent it from happening.
Japan's Longest Day, a fascinating 1967 account of the incident by Japan's award winning film director Kihachi Okamoto, is well worth viewing for anyone interested. The black and white movie, 2 hour 38 minute length and English subtitling turns off the typical Hollyweird crowd, but is a must-see for real students of history.
The think you really have to admire about Okamoto is the efforts he went through to get the facts accurate, sometimes at the expense of entertainment and filling theater seats.
. . . except when it comes to his own increasingly likely illegitimate election.
"Hirohito's the guy in the top hat, right?"
Make sure you include a proper caption.
Obama is incensed at the notion of a national leader being forced to renounce his divinity.
Beautiful...
I don't think Hirohito was there:
The fourth photo (color) has good captions. No mention of Hirohito.
This guy is just dumber than a ‘Chimp’.
:-P
The Japanese murdered more Chinese in retaliation for the Doolittle raid than the number of Americans killed in World War II in total.
Give Obama a break. I expect all asian guys look alike to him.
At least McCain would have known that - because his Grandfather was standing next to MacArthur at the time!
Damn Krauts!
The One has now corrected our collective memory. It was, in fact, Hirohito.
Well Obama's victory last Nov sure was
Move along now, folks. Nothing to see here. Just another liberal showing how the only thing worse to the Left than a war is winning the war.
But I do know that I love me . . . .
What was in quotes was what Obama would say upon seeing the photo. You know him, he has to make the “facts” fit his preconceived conclusions. The Savior said Hirohito was there, so he was. Any mistake is on our part.
Are you trying to say it is US’s fault that Japanese killed more Chinese?
Japanese has been killing Chinese since 1938 long before Pearl Harbor. They annexed three northern provinces in China. After that they further took Shanghai, NanKing etc. With or without US help, the Chinese people will fight it till there is nobody left. With or without US retaliation, the Japanese imperial army will continue to kill and enslave Chinese people.
How is it possible that US and China relationship could be normalized in 1970s with Nixon’s visit? Is it because US helped China defeating the Japanese, that majority of Chinese people have no ill feelings about America even after nearly 30 years of left wing properganda. Most Chinese like Americans more than they like Russians even though Russia was a communist country. The reason is America helped and gave, Russians only took.
For those of you who do not understand China, you may want to know the left have been streamrolled since 1978. The left in China made a mess of the country, completely destroyed the economy and education system. When Mao died in 1978, they are over! Deng Xiao Ping was jailed by Mao as a right wing revolutionist. When Mao died, Deng started reform. Right now Chinese governments are consists of right wing technocrats.
I am explicitly not saying that is was the U.S. fault. I was just trying to give some impression of the brutality and evil of the people we were fighting.
The only reasons the Islamists haven’t slaughtered more people is lack of competence, not lack of intent.
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