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Japan Nanjing film says war criminals were martyrs
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 11/26/07 | Olivier Fabre

Posted on 11/26/2007 6:58:28 AM PST by Abathar

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I guess Amanutjob isn't the only guy out there trying to rewrite history, there is almost as much evidence to support what happened in Nanjing as there is for Dachau or Auschwitz-Birkenau. How anyone can defend the people who did this strictly for national honor's sake is beyond me, lying about it to regain one's pride is almost as bad as the act itself.
1 posted on 11/26/2007 6:58:30 AM PST by Abathar
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To: Abathar

Ping for later...


2 posted on 11/26/2007 7:00:36 AM PST by Friend_from_the_Frozen_North (If you are, as Rush would say, "A Glittering Jewel of Colossal Ignorance" don't waste my time...)
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To: Abathar

Not every mass murdering vermin in WW2 was a Nazi.


3 posted on 11/26/2007 7:04:37 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (“If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven’t cut taxes enough.” –Milton Friedman)
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To: Abathar

This from the country who’s war criminals boasted they ate prisoner’s livers? Read Fly Boys, or better yet, go here: http://www.archives.gov/iwg/japanese-war-crimes/introductory-essays.pdf


4 posted on 11/26/2007 7:06:05 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Kennedys, Bushes, Clintons,. had enough yet, or do you want more of them?)
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To: Abathar

Looking up at the top desk shelf...

Nope never seen any evidence of this atrocity thing.

/Duke BOT

5 posted on 11/26/2007 7:06:32 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck is the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aren't going.)
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Hmm so it is the film maker’s position that Japanese Imperial Army officers never led any massacres of POW’s and civilians?

As an American, I can recall he Bataan Death March and some of the History behind it, so for me, the Japanese have -0- credibility at playing at apologetics for some of the things that they did in the name of their Emperor.....


6 posted on 11/26/2007 7:08:34 AM PST by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3)
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To: Abathar

Well, Hey, we got guys cranking out “Lions for Lambs”, “Rendition” and “Redacted”.


7 posted on 11/26/2007 7:12:11 AM PST by PeteB570 (Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
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Japan's wartime leaders, hanged as war criminals, were martyrs like Jesus Christ

A least he didn't compare them to The Beatles...

8 posted on 11/26/2007 7:13:27 AM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Thompson for President: 2008, 2012: Jindal for President 2016, 2020)
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To: Abathar

And who says mass murder denial is just for neo-nazis?


9 posted on 11/26/2007 7:13:38 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: PeteB570

You make a very good point there, I hope history is as harsh to them as it will be to this idiot.


10 posted on 11/26/2007 7:13:42 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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US Navy Admiral “Bull” Halsey: (after the attack) “Before we’re through with them the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell”.


11 posted on 11/26/2007 7:13:56 AM PST by BigCinBigD (")
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The next military balance of power shift in Asia will see Japan serving as China’s bitch in a manner equal to or greater than Japan’s treatment of Chinese and Korean civilians during WWII.


12 posted on 11/26/2007 7:21:37 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (If piece is the answer, Bill Clinton asked the question.)
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The Japanese never admit blame.

Regards


13 posted on 11/26/2007 7:29:46 AM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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Does anyone know of a reliable reason for Iris Chang’s suicide?


14 posted on 11/26/2007 7:31:36 AM PST by Inwoodian
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I blame em.............war POS’s


15 posted on 11/26/2007 7:34:54 AM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: PeteB570

Add the hideous “Valley of the Elah” to that list. This one has the raping murdering American troops AND a Jewish organ stealing doctor. Big hit in the islamic world.


16 posted on 11/26/2007 7:38:01 AM PST by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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Does anyone know of a reliable reason for Iris Chang’s suicide?

The short answer is "depression", but that's a trite and superficial pretext of an explanation.

I will always believe that it was because the sheer depth and immensity of the evil and depravity in which she immersed herself in order to do her research simply overwhelmed her...

17 posted on 11/26/2007 7:40:17 AM PST by tarheelswamprat
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Her suicide was such a tragedy. :-(


18 posted on 11/26/2007 7:45:03 AM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: tarheelswamprat

I agree. I also think that her acute sensitivity to injustice throughout her life, even as a child, magnified the despair she felt for persecuted people.

Writers in Davis, CA told me she suffered from bipolarism.


19 posted on 11/26/2007 7:55:50 AM PST by daviscupper
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To: PeteB570

People fail to understand that national or racial guilt is something confined almost entirely to white Western nations. Even very educated, intelligent, and cultured nations such as Japan have large numbers of people (even elected officials) who deny past atrocities. And the rest of the population is mostly of the opinion that even if things like Bataan and Nanking did occur (which they did) they’re old history and we should just forget about it.

It’s totally unlike the West, where we wallow in our past sins, real and in many cases imagined.

I love Japan and the Japanese people. But these crimes did occur and they should admit to it.


20 posted on 11/26/2007 7:56:03 AM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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