Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tu-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Eric Takabayashi Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Politicians block comic over 'fake' Nanjing Massacre tale Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:34:26 +0900 Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4174EDB2.CE06CF49@yahoo.co.jp> References: <73fde4f0.0410141040.6f70a6c4@posting.google.com> <73fde4f0.0410141415.1c2658f6@posting.google.com> <2tbirjF1tlj10U1@uni-berlin.de> <2tf2ecF1v20j3U1@uni-berlin.de> <2tfb4mF1uhk7mU1@uni-berlin.de> <41727888.E5AB9CBC@yahoo.co.jp> <2tfd93F1u9dlhU1@uni-berlin.de> <417283EF.78BF8224@yahoo.co.jp> <2tfhb5F1vl46qU1@uni-berlin.de> <41729DA5.F43F2003@yahoo.co.jp> <2tfnfgF1vjq43U1@uni-berlin.de> <4172B950.E992CD1E@yahoo.co.jp> <4173FD64.885E9EB4@yahoo.co.jp> <41745995.55C08A9E@yahoo.co.jp> Reply-To: etakajp@yahoo.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de QeTl5WZ6UFpwlBu0YVqHVwtZMCdaKOwmD5psMW94R/u1zV4rMc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:19661 Ernest Schaal wrote: > You seem to conveniently forget that the Japanese military was mainly > responsible for those deaths, expecting the civilians to fight the enemy and > to commit suicide rather than surrender. Right. It was the fault of the Japanese for all 100,000 deaths. No need to consider American responsibility at all. Those Okinawans are a bunch of whiners. > >> Please elaborate on what military methods (tactical or strategic) you find > >> so "disturbing." > > > > Oh, shelling a certain village for three days before coming ashore, as seen in > > one US film clip, or shooting at a fleeing young woman carrying a baby from > > behind, as seen in another. Pouring flaming gasoline down into caves in which > > civilians were hiding. Things like that. > > Military were also hiding in those caves and were shooting at Gis, or did > you forget that? Always? So why did Americans need to approach or to use translators, to even find out if people were within? > Did you forget that resistance was particularly intense > from those caves? Whatever you say. Kill Chinese, bad. Criticize Chinese bad. Kill Japanese/Okinawan civilians, ok. Criticize Japanese, good! -- "I'm on top of the world right now, because everyone's going to know that I can shove more than three burgers in my mouth!"