Hello Ward,   
      
    LL>> The Land of the Rising Sun is filled with wonderful people, a people   
    LL>> who deserve far more credit than what they have received.  For example,   
    LL>> during WWII, the Japanese people gave refuge to many Jews, thus saving   
    LL>> them from certain death at the hands of the Nazis.  This is the sense   
    LL>> of decency that all peoples such strive for, regardless of nationality   
    LL>> or ethnicity.  Why did the Japanese choose to help the Jews when so   
    LL>> many others (including Americans) chose otherwise?  Maybe, just maybe,   
    LL>> it had something to do with religion?  Or at the very least a sense   
    LL>> of human decency.   
      
   WD>I think you need to start reading "The Rape of Nanking" by Iris   
   WD>Chang and learn about the attrocities committed by the Japanese when   
   WD>entering the Chinese city of Nanking and slaughtering 300,000   
   WD>civilians in that town alone.   
      
   Just because a handful of Japanese military men got carried away   
   does not mean that an entire people was at fault.  And lets not forget   
   what we did to innocent Japanese citizens, nuking TWO of their cities -   
   just because we could.  Makes me real proud to be an American ... NOT!   
      
   WD>Another interesting fact is that several of Japan's WW2 war   
   WD>criminals who were convicted at the eastern version of the Nurnberg   
   WD>war trials and executed, are still being revered as heroes in a   
   WD>shrine.   
      
   Of course those Japanese "war criminals" were convicted in our   
   kangaroo courts and executed.  What else would you have expected?   
      
   Saddam Hussein mocked his Shiite executioners by asking them just   
   before they hanged him, "Is this manly?"  What a brave man he was,   
   hitting the nail on the head with that comment.   
      
   Imagine what Adolf Hitler would have said had the Jews been able   
   to capture him alive.  Imagine what Adolf Eichmann said after the   
   Jews kidnapped him and convicted him in an Israeli kangaroo court,   
   executed him by hanging, and finally cremating him then throwing   
   his ashes into the Mediterranean Sea.   
      
   How is any of that "justice"?  Having a Shiite hit squad execute   
   your enemy just because you could?  That is what our sorry excuse   
   of a president did.  Having a bunch of angry Jews execute your   
   enemey just because you could?  That is what the Mossad did, along   
   with their Jewish brethren, totally disregarding international law.   
      
   There is no real "justice" in this world.  Only "revenge".  You   
   know it, I know it, and everybody else knows it.  So why not admit   
   what should be obvious to all?   
      
   It makes us feel good to kill people.  Especially people who we claim   
   have done bad things.  Emotionally, we cannot help ourselves.  It is   
   our nature to kill, whether we do it ourselves or have somebody else   
   do it for us.  We just do not like to admit it.   
      
   We have the death penalty in the USA.  Both at the federal level,   
   and also in most (but not all) states.  The majority of people here   
   are in favor of the death penalty, as they feel (rightly or wrongly)   
   that those who are put to death deserve to die.  However, they get   
   very uneasy when I tell them the state is murdering people in their   
   name.  Seems that most folks do not like to be called "killers" or   
   "murderers" to their face.   
      
   Klingons, as do Sicilians, have a saying - "Revenge is a dish   
   best served cold."  And that is exactly what those trials were   
   after WWII, for both Europeans and Japanese.   
      
   We wanted our revenge.  And we got it.   
      
   --Lee   
      
   --- MesNews/1.06.00.00-gb   
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