"Austin P. So (Hae Jin)" <haejin@netinfo.ubc.ca> wrote in message
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> "USA" <USA@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > One has legal implications and can lead to impeachment
> > while the other can only piss people off.
> > If you can not see the difference in your own example, then you will not
> see
> > the point concerning the label of War Criminal being applied.
>
> Right...
>
> Go on your merry way and say to Jewish people that Hitler really wasn't a
> war
> criminal and really wasn't guilty of committing war crimes...
>
> So...while you implicity agree that Hirohito, though not officially tried
> and
> convicted largely because of the intervention of MacArthur, was complicit
in
> the war crimes committed by those serving under him, for the sake of
> maintaining your "rightness" or preventing the loss of your argument, you
> refuse to formally acknowledge him as such so that you can "save face".
>
> No wonder you and shuji get along so famously...
>
>
> Austin

I guess the point has been lost on you too Austin.
But I think that you really understood what I was saying.
Honestly? I think Hirohito should have been tried.
But that doesn't change my position as regards officially labeling
someone a "criminal" of any kind without being tried.
And for the record I don't get along with Shuji at all, much less
famously.