in article 4174EDB2.CE06CF49@yahoo.co.jp, Eric Takabayashi at
etakajp@yahoo.co.jp wrote on 10/19/04 7:34 PM:

> 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.

Eric,

Your irrationality is showing again. First, you seem incapable of
distinguishing between "mainly" and "all." Then you raise the straw man
argument about calling Okinawans 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?

The military weren't hiding in caves? The military wasn't resisting to the
death, and expecting the civilian population to do the same?

> 
>> 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!

In an earlier message you asked about exaggeration. I suggest that you look
at your own comments here as excellent examples of same.