"James Anatidae" <parshallNOSPAM@citcom.net> wrote in message
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> "Kaz" <kaz@ivebeenframed.com> wrote in message
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> > Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Lee Armitage visiting Japan said
> > today as &#8221;Japan should get out from the stand and come down to
> > the ground, doesn't have to be a pitcher or a catcher, but should play
> > baseball". I really think we should this time in Iraq. At least as a
> > outfielder or a pinch hitter. No matter whether it's a battle or not,
> > our force should be sent to Iraq. And then after Iraq, we should kick
> > the silly little dictator pointing nuclear missile to us out of his
> > starving land. And we should save people starving, trying to get flesh
> > of human.
>
>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030610/ap_on_re_as/japan
_iraq_2
>
> I guess Washington doens't care that it would violate Japan's
constitution.
> They're called "Self Defense Forces" for a reason.

Who do you think wrote that Constitution in the First Place?  The United
States.

In the meantime, they spend almost nothing for National Defense unlike the
US does.  What we see is, unfair trade practices where they take that money
not spent on National Defense and subsidise goods for export to the US.
That method would be selling it for less than it costed to manufacture it in
order to keep another countries supplies appear to be overpriced.

They do need to become part of the rest of the world in all ways, not just
financial.