On 14 Jul 2003 11:00:24 -0700, dvdfan9@hotmail.com  ...
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>Richard Thieme wrote:
>> Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Here's one for now, from page 277, second full paragraph:
>>>日本の戦争目的は・瘢雹髟阡殺瘢雹踉捌存&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;劼肇&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;ジウ瘢雹髟阡擦魏な討了拉曚&#65533;蕾鯤?掘&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;そして,
>>>『大東亜共瘢雹瘢雹栄圏』を建設することでう瘢雹髟阡擦襪叛觚世靴拭&#65533;(B
>>>This, quite simply, is bullshit.
>> 
>>Hmmm. Are you sure that you are not simply misreading the と宣言した? That
>> applies to the whole sentence you know. Indeed liberation of Asia from the
>> Western powers was a stated goal of the Japanese government. They did
>> declare this and it is all through their propaganda of the period. To what
>> extent the senior officers believed it (and even if they did whether they
>> could have carried it out in the face of more imperialistic junior
>> officers), is an entirely different question.
>
>Well, Kevin Gowen is an ignorant and 


how can he be ignorant when he is so widely read. He reads 
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/
Ben Sharpio, Ann Coulter amongest others.

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