George Bush's Comrades Eaten By Their Japanese PoW Guards

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

[gg188]

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.

Those were real men back then.

[gg188]

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.

Your dad and his generation:

They loved their kids.

They believed in the rightness of their cause.

And they were not afraid to do what was necessary for their children and for their beliefs. That is an awesome combination.

[stands2reason]

keep hearing from the Japanese how nice and kind and considerate they were towards their POWs.

Where did you heard that??? The Japanese were AWFUL to their captives.

[headsonpikes]

It'll come.

Bump.

[gunnyg]

Re the Iwo Jima Flag Raising...

[gunnyg]

Re that Iwo Jima Flag Raising...
Here!!!!!

[dennisw]

Jihadi Japs bump!!

[dennisw]

American planes launched a hail of fire at Japanese boats which set out to capture him, driving them back, and he was eventually rescued by a US submarine.

Their sukiyaki main course escaped!

[gunnyg]

Additional versions of this story...

George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography ~Online~

HERE!!!!!

[jellybean]

Yes, the 1st flag raising. I guess I should have been more specific; His father was one of those depicted in the famous photograph and monument of the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima.

[gunnyg]

Yes, Joe Rosenthal's famous photo of the "replacement flag" is generally assumed to be THE flag raising; whereas, most of us know which is really "the" flag raising, there are still a few w/o this knowledge.

[Nita Nupress]

Your Bush-is-Satan link just tried to dump all kinds of crap on my computer.

[gunnyg]

Wrong again--not my link, just one of the millions of links on the Net for all to choose for themselves to click on or not.

[Nita Nupress]

Did you know it was a Bush-bashing site before you linked it?

[gunnyg]

Do any of us KNOW which version is closer to the truth?
Course, you may KNOW--the rest of us are restricted to our opinions, and our choices as to what may or may not be good information.

[Trust but Verify]

Ugh... I listen to Charlie's show 75% of the time, but I missed that one! I would've done the same thing you did, get the book and get it signed. Now, I'll just have the book. Going to buy it later today. Thanks for the heads-up!!

[epow]

If memory serves, 25% of those held by the Japs died while only 4% of those held by Germany and Italy did.

A good friend and co-worker of mine was captured in the Phillipines after Corregidor fell to the Japanese in 1942. All the Filipino soldiers under his command were bayonetted immediately, but the Americans were sent on the Bataan death march where many of them died. My friend lived through the entire war in a a Japanese POW camp in northern Japan. He and his fellow prisoners were forced to work 12-14 hours a day 7 days a week in the coal mines.

The POWs were beaten frequently with clubs and rifle butts for no reason, burned with cigarette butts while they worked, had no medical care of any kind, and were given barely enough rice to keep them alive. Many were executed by beheading or bayonetting for the slightest infraction of the strict rules.

Disease, starvation, overwork, and severe mistreatment killed almost 3/4 of the men in that one camp before it was liberated. Of the 200+ men in his company only about 25 were alive at the end of the war. Marv was 6' tall and weighed 200 lbs when captured. When he was liberated he weighed 85 lbs, and spent 3 months in an army hospital before he was well enough to go home. He died almost 30 years ago and I still believe he died early at least party due to his POW experience. Almost every American knows about the horrors of the nazi death camps, but not nearly as many know about the horrors of the Japanese POW death camps. The Japanese military of WWII was every bit as inhuman and brutal as the Nazis SS or the German Gestapo.

[jellybean]

Now, I'll just have the book.

James Bradley always pre-signs copies of his books that are available through our local Historical Society. I don't know if he does this in other locations. If you would like an autographed copy, though not personalized, I would be happy to get one for you.

[Paul L. Hepperla]

I'm reading this book currently and it is really compelling so far. anyone else read this yet?

[Nita Nupress]

Did you know it was a Bush-bashing site before you linked it?