Posted on 08/01/2005 11:39:02 AM PDT by Jeff Gordon
But nobody's gonna buy her Tojo was just a big misunderstood teddy bear crap.
>> She'd better hire a heck of a PR firm.
Maybe Alexandra Kerry will be interested.
The death rate of U.S prisoners in Japanese hands far exceeded the death rate of American POWs in German hands. Then there's the beheadings, Unit 731, the forced labor under unspeakable conditions, the treatment of civilians. Tojo was the Prime Minister for all of that stuff. If not him, who? They should have hanged him twice!{ In the interest of full disclosure, the Japanese killed my uncle (Marine Recon), my Mom's only brother , on Guam in 1944, so, to a degree, it's personal.].
Sounds like Ms. Tojo needs to read something besides World War II history books written in Japan.
By the way, there is a blubbering, tear jerker of a movie out called "Dai Nippon Tei Koku", which came out in 1984 I believe, which has a scene in there of how wonderful "Dad" was to his children, in the last few days before he was hanged at Sugamo Prison.
A good start would be `The Rape of Nanking'. Tojo's army wrote the book on war atrocities. The Chinese are still ready to fight over what gramps & Co. did 60 years ago.
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"Japan was being held back by the ABCD line of America, Britain, China and the Dutch, who had together imposed an economic embargo, so there was no choice."
This sounds like the revisionist textbooks that whitewash what the Japanese animals did in Nanking.
And hopefully 50 years after we kick the CRAP out of the Islamofascits fanatics and depose the tyrannical despots who support them we will be able to go to Iraq/Iran/Syria/ Afghanistan/Egypt, etc and wonder why such nice smiling polite people were responsible for so much human misery.
Gee, beotch, ya' think that there might be reasons for the economic embargo...you know, a couple little things like the invasion of China and the killing or murder of millions of its people, for example, or the plans to use China's resources to go after the rest of Asia?
Notice, beotch, that the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere which your butcher grandfather couldn't achieve by killing millions of Japanese, Americans, Brits, Phillipinos, etc. was easily accomplished by a non-aggressive Japan in a few short years. No one is embargoing oil, steel, etc. now...maybe 'cuz they aren't worried about being invaded by a bunch of sadistic thugs with guns & bombs.
Sheesh, the way we fight the PC-steeped war on terrorism, at times I wonder if we will ever kick the CRAP out of them, for good, so that they are under our feet for generations--which is what I'd like.
Not under our feet. If we put the Japanese under our feet for generations do you think they would love America, American culture, and American products?
Just free. Free to vote. Free to live. Free to buy American products!
You said it better than I did. Tojo wasn't PM yet when the Rape of Nanking went down but there was enough other nasty stuff on his watch to justify a noose, IMHO.
HERE is a very interesting (if a bit dated) study of who really got Japan into WWII and why. It isn't quite what Ms Tojo thinks.
Fine. Whatever.
First Mussolini's granddaughter, now Tojo's. Good thing Hitler never had any kids, or we'd be hearing from them too!
There's any number of films portraying the brutality of the Japanese to our POW's. That's the main reason why her granddaddy was executed.
At the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, it is worth recalling the status of the so-called ABCD alliance:
America-- still strongly isolationist despite providence of war material to Britian, Russia and, to a lesser extent, China.
Britain-- hardly capable of launching an offensive, having barely survived Germany's onslaught tge year before.
China-- Engaged in a civil war of their own, temporarily on-hold due to the Japanese invasion.
Dutch -- An impotent little country under nazi occupation barely able to govern Indonesia.
Japan had the choice of turning northward (Russia) for its oil resources. Since dictators trust each other more than they do free countries, however, the choice was made to enter a non-agression pact with the Russians prior to launching the attack on Pearl Harbor-- the exact same M.O. Hitler followed prior to attacking Poland.
Naziism, Facism and Communism are all movements of the left. They disagree on little but methodology.
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