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    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.   
      
    In my critique of Lee's sentence above, I missed that point completely.   
      
    LL> Just because a handful of Japanese military men got carried   
    LL> away does not mean that an entire people was at fault.  And   
    LL> lets not forget what we did to innocent Japanese citizens,   
    LL> nuking TWO of their cities - just because we could.  Makes   
    LL> 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.   
      
    Plus the prediction of an invasion death toll estimated at a million.   
      
    LL> Of course those Japanese "war criminals" were convicted in   
    LL> our kangaroo courts and executed.  What else would you have   
    LL> expected?   
      
    That they were guilty? I suspect the victims thought so.   
      
    LL> Saddam Hussein mocked his Shiite executioners by asking   
    LL> them just before they hanged him, "Is this manly?"  What a   
    LL> brave man he was, hitting the nail on the head with that   
    LL> comment.   
      
    Or was he just nutso?   
      
    LL> Imagine what Adolf Hitler would have said had the Jews been   
    LL> able to capture him alive.  Imagine what Adolf Eichmann   
    LL> said after the Jews kidnapped him and convicted him in an   
    LL> Israeli kangaroo court, executed him by hanging, and   
    LL> finally cremating him then throwing his ashes into the   
    LL> Mediterranean Sea.   
      
    Eichman said, "I go happily into my grave, knowing I have sent six million   
    Jews there before me."   
      
    Hitler would have just spent his time complaining about all those American   
    soldiers who would not stop smoking just because he complained.   
      
    LL> How is any of that "justice"?  Having a Shiite hit squad   
    LL> execute your enemy just because you could?  That is what   
      
    Saddam did deserve it. Regardless of the other mistakes we made there.   
      
    LL> our sorry excuse of a president did.  Having a bunch of   
    LL> angry Jews execute your enemey just because you could?   
    LL> That is what the Mossad did, along with their Jewish   
    LL> brethren, totally disregarding international law.   
      
    Eichman never denied what he did, he was proud of it.   
      
    LL> There is no real "justice" in this world.  Only "revenge".   
    LL> You know it, I know it, and everybody else knows it.  So   
    LL> why not admit what should be obvious to all?   
      
    That bad guys deserve to be punished?   
      
    LL> It makes us feel good to kill people.  Especially people   
    LL> who we claim have done bad things.  Emotionally, we cannot   
    LL> help ourselves.  It is our nature to kill, whether we do it   
    LL> ourselves or have somebody else do it for us.  We just do   
    LL> not like to admit it.   
      
    Which is disproven over and over, by those who cannot bring themselves to   
    kill, and by those who agonize for years, or a lifetime, when they have to   
    kill and do.   
      
    LL> We have the death penalty in the USA.  Both at the federal   
    LL> level, and also in most (but not all) states.  The majority   
    LL> of people here are in favor of the death penalty, as they   
      
    I doubt you can prove that. And the death penalty fails over and over when   
    juries are given the choice of life without parole.   
      
    LL> feel (rightly or wrongly) that those who are put to death   
    LL> deserve to die.  However, they get very uneasy when I tell   
    LL> them the state is murdering people in their name.  Seems   
    LL> that most folks do not like to be called "killers" or   
    LL> "murderers" to their face.   
      
    Point?   
      
    LL> Klingons, as do Sicilians, have a saying - "Revenge is a   
    LL> dish best served cold."  And that is exactly what those   
    LL> trials were after WWII, for both Europeans and Japanese.   
      
    There has to be a penalty, or there is no deterrant.   
      
    Oh, and that was Sicilian. Gene Roddenberry stole a lot.   
      
    LL> We wanted our revenge.  And we got it.   
      
    And it was justified.   
      
      
      
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