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Originally posted by Jim Scott
Perhaps US serviceman in Japan may not be the best source of information as they have so little time between killing natives whilst drunk driving & raping teenage girls (look up the stats!) to actually LEARN anything, except how to kill foreigners of course.
[edit on 27-4-2009 by Oh Dae-su]
Well, that remark was certainly going to get some reaction from veterans. I don't think you mean to say that. It would be good to print a retraction as soon as possible.
George W. was not assigned a name but invited to choose one. According to one report, nothing came to mind, so he was given the name Temporary, which, it is said, he never bothered to replace; Temporary is how Bush's fellow Bonesmen know him today. (In recent interviews I asked a number of Bush's Bonesmen classmates about the name and elicited no denials.)
Originally posted by Kryties
reply to post by SuperViking
Ahhh yes, that "truth" without a criminal investigation behind it to back it up. Seriously, is that what the believers in the terrorist theory have come to? That you have absolutely no answers to this except to say that we are wrong? Sad really.....
posted by Oh Dae-su
Perhaps US serviceman in Japan may not be the best source of information as they have so little time between killing natives whilst drunk driving & raping teenage girls (look up the stats!) to actually LEARN anything, except how to kill foreigners of course.
posted by Jim Scott
Well, that remark was certainly going to get some reaction from veterans. I don't think you mean to say that. It would be good to print a retraction as soon as possible.
posted by Oh Dae-su
US veterans have VERY little to be proud of.
What good have you ever done since WW2? Bomb, invade, destabilize foreign nations far from home. Great stuff.
When your veterans actually defend YOUR OWN COUNTRY'S SOIL, we may respect you.
Until then they are all nothing but "gangsters for capitalism" & thugs. FACT!
Major General Smedley Butler USMC
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
www.rationalrevolution.net...
I think it's kind of silly that most of the past 4 pages have been taken up with Japan's history of the war.
Originally posted by SuperViking
reply to post by drwizardphd
What do you mean 'somebody'? 99.99% of people believe the truth.
Originally posted by DarrylGalasso
Originally posted by LiquidLight
reply to post by secretagent woooman
I don't know where you heard this, but I've done some research and it doesn't appear to be true. for example, from Wikipedia
*Potsdam Declaration:
"Finally, Japan accepted Potsdam Declaration and decided to surrender.... With this, China and the occupied Southeast Asian nations were freed from the invasion of the Japanese military. In Joseon, the 35 years of the Japanese colonial rule was brought down." (p. 290)
en.wikipedia.org...
Sorry to be so well whatever your going to call me, but this has to be one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life.
Let me get this straight, you are using wikipedia as a citation to tell someone else something isn't true? OMG LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry man, but that is just hilarious.
Just so you know, Wikipedia is user definitions and perhaps the most notorious of all unacceptable references and if you ever tried to use it for any citation in a university you would probably charged by the university with plagiarism (that's cheating) and most likely removed from the class.
[edit on 4/27/2009 by DarrylGalasso]
Plagiarism is the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."