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Many point out the horrible things the Japanese and Germans did as justification for what we did, maybe we should have opened up some extermanation camps also afterall they did it.
It seems like we are still doing the same today on foreign soil.
When Truman lied to America that Hiroshima was a military base rather than a city full of civilians, people no doubt wanted to believe him. Who would want the shame of belonging to the nation that commits a whole new kind of atrocity.
What a load of crap, are you suggesting we not bomb our enemies or that we vote on it?
We were attacked and we were at war. According to some reports Japan exploded a small nuclear device a few days later off Wonson, North Korea.
That was after the Soviets had entered the war so screwing around a few extra months with a land invasion could have cost millions of Ameri8can lives.
War crimes are a part of war, for all participants.
The victor doesn't get prosecuted in war crime trials, the loser does. In the same essence, the victor decides the fate of the loser. In a war, you do not want to become a loser. Pretty simple.
Poor Germany & Japan what? What a load of crap. Germany and Japan were hell bent on world domination and did anything/everything possible to try. They lost...big time..
Proper education on the subject will trump idiots trying to re-write history.
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It is most ironic since Lincoln ranks up there as one of the most statist pricks ever to preside over America. However, that is what Republicans are, statists pricks who claim otherwise. Perhaps, there is a connection.
Like the emancipation proclamation to free slaves??...Democrats at the time were completely livid over that for a long time.... and democrats brought you racial segregation...spin doctors trying to blame republicans is pathetic.
Many people in the Middle-East today believe our government is run by corrupt individuals, who are waging pre-emptive wars to pillage their riches. That the American military is directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of more than 100,000 civilians. These civilian deaths are generally referred to as "collateral damage" by our military, as if to pretend they don't matter.
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Many people in the United States and through out the world KNOW that our government is run by corrupt individuals, who are waging pre-emptive wars to pillage their riches. That the American military is directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of more than 100,000 civilians*. These civilian deaths are generally referred to as "collateral damage" by our military, as if to pretend they don't matter.
* may well be close to a MILLION civilian deaths or at least well north of 500,000 deaths.
Poor Germany & Japan what? What a load of crap. Germany and Japan were hell bent on world domination and did anything/everything possible to try. They lost...big time..
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And we are not???
The United States has close to a THOUSAND military bases in foreign lands, at the height of the Roman Empire they had only 37 bases.
It costs us over 100 BILLION a year to maintain those bases.
And we are not???
The United States has close to a THOUSAND military bases in foreign lands, at the height of the Roman Empire they had only 37 bases.
It costs us over 100 BILLION a year to maintain those bases.
You'd almost think they were planning a giant nasty corporate DoD, N.S.A. and C.I.A. backed takeover or something...
Someone mentioned atrocities the Japanese committed against the Filipinos, well guess what.
President Theodore Roosevelt dismissed those committed by U.S. troops in the Philippines as of no consequence and no worse than what had been done at the massacre of the Sioux at wounded Knee, as if mere mass murder were the standard of acceptability.
One U.S. atrocity in the Philippines involved slaughtering over 600 mostly unarmed, men, women and children trapped in the crater of a dormant volcano.
The general in command of that operation openly favored the extermination of all Filipinos.
Looks like we've got some more 'world citizens' on our hands.
What you do here does affect people on other continents around the world. That should be obvious by now.
And no, I'm not interested in world-wide apology tours.
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