George Bush's Comrades Eaten By Their Japanese PoW Guards

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 10-26-2003 | Charles Laurence

[blam]

We'll defeat the terrorists too!

[GalvestonGal.com]

I always thought Bush the Elder purposely barfed on the Japanese Prime Minister(?). Whoever it was. I always thought he had vowed to get even.

[Henchman]

Send more gourmet Japs to the Mid ERast

[woofie]

My bet is that by the time the Dems are through with this story it will have morphed into "Because of the actions of George H W Bush former Nazi president,the men under him were eaten for dinner"

[MonroeDNA]

Bump!!!!

[gg188]

The next day a Japanese officer, Major Sueo Matoba, decided to include American flesh in a sake-fuelled feast he laid on for officers including the commander-in-chief on the island, Gen Yoshio Tachibana. Both men were later tried and executed for war crimes.

Have we exectued a single Islamofacist? We don't have the guts to execute any of them. Thank God our parents' generation did. However, it dishonors them that where they showed courage and fortitude we show cowardice and shirking. We're afraid we might hurt someone's feelings if we execute our enemies.

[putupon]

So how come the VRWC doesn't give Bubba get some hero credentials? His best friend was eaten by Monica.

[blam]

"We're afraid we might hurt someone's feelings if we execute our enemies."

It'll come.

[BulletBobCo]

He recalled that while on the submarine he asked himself why he had survived. "Why had I been spared and what did God have in store for me? In my own view there's got to be some kind of destiny and I was being spared for something on Earth."

George W. Bush
Born July 6, 1946.

[gg188]

Wonder how long it would have taken the WWII generation to execute Zacarias Moussaoui? John Lindh? John Mohammed? The bunch at Gitmo?

Wonder how they would have handled a 9/11 attack in, say, 1945? I am guessing a few ultimatums and then joining "Hiroshima" and "Nagasaki" in the nomenclature would be "Mecca" and "Medina."

[MediaMole]

The atrocities on Chichi Jima have been known for many years. Some of the more gruesome details have been kept quiet out of respect for the families of those who suffered at the hands of their captors, but the info has been out there for a long time.

[Sir_Ed]

And Jeb Bush!

Ed

[jellybean]

I heard James Bradley talking about Flyboys on the Charlie Sykes Show yesterday morning. I immediately went to the bookstore and bought the book. Bradley, whose father was one of the flag raisers on Iwo Jima, was born and raised in my small town here in northern Wisconsin. He was in town for a book signing this morning.

I waited in line for an hour and now have a personally autographed, 1st Edition of the book.

WARNING: This is not light reading!! If you have a weak stomach, you might want to skip this one!!!

[patriota-ferus]

What I find so interesting is that I keep hearing from the Japanese how nice and kind and considerate they were towards their POWs. I don't think being invited to dinner and then told that you are the main course constitutes nice???

[dandelion]

God have mercy.

There are moment when the human soul is revealed, and we can only recoil in horror and disbelief. How much more beautiful then are the souls of those who gave themselves in sacrifice for our freedom. Because of these men, I am not enslaved by those monsters. We owe them a debt of gratitude beyond measure...

[CapnMcK]

Actually, very little of the book has to do with the airmen who were executed. That story could be contained in a short magazine article. The rest of the book is spent explaining how the Japanese were just imitating the imperialist western nations and America with their expansionism. In the spirit of moral relativism, America is castigated more severely for our "war crimes" than Japan. Having read Flags of Our Fathers, I had expected more from this author than the largely anti-Americanism found in this book.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

That was so well put that I am not even going to post my comment- you said it much better than I could. Thank you.

[11B3]

I'll second that.

[reed_inthe_wind]

My father served as an army first scout in the war against the Japanese. His unit liberated two POW camps on two separate islands. After seeing the condition of the American POWs, the American soldiers made sure that justice was swift for the Japanese.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

What I find so interesting is that I keep hearing from the Japanese how nice and kind and considerate they were towards their POWs.

Where do you hear that? If memory serves, 25% of those held by the Japs died while only 4% of those held by Germany and Italy did.