[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Notice the nice comments at the end about shooting the crazy protesters. Things are same everywhere.

[Aetius]

Lee Jong Sun sounds like good people.

[ncountylee]

Pack up the statue and bring it home with all the troops. 50 years is enough.

[MplsSteve]

Only the older South Koreans truly understand what we did for them. The young ones, much like the younger French, have no clue.

They have no idea how painful and tragic their lives will become if North Korea ever occupies South Korea. They will truly rue the day they had bad thoughts about the US.

[cynicom]

His son found it easier and safer to change his name and live in obscurity here in the US.

[Conservative Firster]

Photo

[battlegearboat]

Clean and easy...ain't no such thing.

[A Jovial Cad]

I have a feeling General MacArthur would just laugh about all of this and say:

...just to hack his detractors off some more.

[maui_hawaii]

Nonetheless, the dispute reflects a reassessment by South Koreans of the American role on the peninsula. In a poll taken last week, 53% of respondents listed the U.S. as the country most responsible for the division of Korea.

No kidding...You don't say?

That to me is a good thing because SOUTH Korea wouldn't exist if it was not for the US. They would all be saluting the beloved leader right about now were it not for us...

No Church, NO freedom TO protest... NO travel... people starving... NO college... NO a whole bunch of other things that they otherwise would not have had...

[ladyinred]

Yawn, I am growing weary of the leftists vicious tactics world wide. Hope none of them ever need help from us again.

[Oystir]

"Back then, if anybody had protested they would have been shot instantly. It would have been clean and easy," Jeon said. "It was clean and easy in those days."


This is a true Korean sentiment.

[WorkingClassFilth]

"From the sidelines, nearly 1,000 conservative defenders of the statue, many of them Korean War veterans, threw eggs and garbage at the protesters. Some blocked an ambulance carrying away injured protesters, screaming that communists didn't deserve to be rescued, witnesses said."

Sounds like a chapter in good standing of Free Republic is on the job in South Korea.

[JPJones]

"It is time to reappraise MacArthur's role in history.

Lol, well at least they're upfront about wanting to rewrite history.

[Gay State Conservative]

But not all. A movement to tear down the statue has been gaining momentum recently among some younger South Koreans, who call it a symbol of U.S. occupation and oppression

These spoiled punks don't seem to understand what the Japanese understand all too well...and that is that Kim Jong Il has plans to finish the job that Stalin and Mao.... sorry....his father started (and then some).

And when he puts those plans into motion,the only people who can count on help from us are the Japanese.

[SevenofNine]

Hey guys you hear about this????

[Horatio Gates]

"Back then, if anybody had protested they would have been shot instantly. It would have been clean and easy," Jeon said. "It was clean and easy in those days."

God Bless him.

Always, for them: Duty, Honor, Country; always their blood and sweat and tears, as we sought the way and the light and the truth. - Gen MacArthur

[longshadow]

"The protesters are led by a coalition of student and labor groups, including the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union."

AKA: "Fellow travelers."

[Capriole]

". . .If it were not for him, our country would not have been colonized and divided as it was," said Kim Guk Rae, a 40-year-old activist from Inchon who is one of the leaders of the movement.

That's right, sugar-pie. If it weren't for MacArthur Korea would be one united country, and you'd be slowly starving to death and trying to live on grass like your cousins in the north. I'm sure the agony of starvation would be tempered for you by the pleasures of knowing that you're ideologically pure.

My father served under MacArthur and my brother is named for him. I was raised to revere him. Be damned to these miserable ungrateful people, who don't understand that it is due to him they have the freedom to demonstrate amidst the wealth of the new South Korea.

[garyhope]

I think we should remove all our troops and our money from S. Korea immediately and let the S. Koreans rot. Let the NK's invade and turn their POS country into another starving communist paradise overnight.

Screw all the ingrates of the world.

[henderson field]

"If not for him, our country would not have been divided"

Yes, it would have been "unified" under Communism and you would all live like slaves.

The protesters must have been Communists, if that's what they wanted.

[denydenydeny]

"It is time to reappraise MacArthur's role in history. If it were not for him, our country would not have been colonized and divided as it was,"

Yeah, you'd ALL be living under President Eraserhead and eating tree bark. Idiot.