tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post8983433994058247757..comments2024-03-19T02:40:08.191-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: Truman Knewbionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-82484449546532713752014-09-01T07:06:49.151-07:002014-09-01T07:06:49.151-07:00The definition of terrorism is killing civilians t...The definition of terrorism is killing civilians to advance a political objective. Truman bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force the surrender of the Japanese government. By definition, Truman was a terrorist. One needs to also note that the lone condition of surrender stipulated by the Japanese was to allow them to retain their emperor as a figurehead. Truman rejected this condition. In the end, the constitution drafted by MacArthur and approved by the Japanese Diet allows the emperor to sit as figurehead.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08981075542313728717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-86795608464755302772014-08-17T06:05:42.498-07:002014-08-17T06:05:42.498-07:00I know I'm a bit late to this, but I'd lik...I know I'm a bit late to this, but I'd like to point out that Gil has apparently never heard of the notions of conditional surrender and armistice. By the way, according to international law, a white flag is considered "a protective sign of truce or ceasefire, and request for negotiation" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flag" rel="nofollow">source</a>).Autolykosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-35282418573768064382014-08-10T19:56:28.322-07:002014-08-10T19:56:28.322-07:00Who cares if the Japs were peace loving or not? Th...Who cares if the Japs were peace loving or not? That's not the point. That's China's problem. Not ours. Where on Earth does it say that the US government is supposed to be the world's policeman or even "savior"? The arrogance is just incredible.Mikehttp://www.antiwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-43668075093091791522014-08-10T19:53:26.485-07:002014-08-10T19:53:26.485-07:00To BM:
I see. I've seen this loser at Tom Woo...To BM:<br /><br />I see. I've seen this loser at Tom Wood's website as well. Guess this troll has nothing better to do, eh? But if you think it bring legitimacy to your blog who am I to argue? ;-)Mikehttp://www.antiwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-29577390023629849262014-08-10T18:09:00.789-07:002014-08-10T18:09:00.789-07:00Who cares what the Japanese wanted? It's akin...Who cares what the Japanese wanted? It's akin to bailing up a burglar with your gun and he starts negotiations the terms of his surrender. He has none. It doesn't matter if you'll give him some of the slack he wants but you get to decide not him.<br /><br />I presume the American lives you refer to are those who were prisoners being held at the blast sites. Your point? That's the danger of being captured by the enemy. Their lives were any different had there been a land invasion? One prisoner told that the Japanese were going to execute them all anyway had the Japanese not surrendered when they did.Gilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-71677964290277777482014-08-10T12:53:32.455-07:002014-08-10T12:53:32.455-07:00Mike
I like to think of Gil as my one, official, ...Mike<br /><br />I like to think of Gil as my one, official, troll. I know he shows up at other sites as well - he is not a one-blog-troll - but I feel that, somehow, having a troll adds to the legitimacy of this blog!<br /><br />:-) bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-86756433223418015412014-08-10T11:58:25.799-07:002014-08-10T11:58:25.799-07:00Gil, you're one of those fools who swallowed h...Gil, you're one of those fools who swallowed his government "education" (i.e. propaganda) hook, line, and sinker. You really need to grow up and start THINKING. Try it. It actually works.Mikehttp://www.antiwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-64595748631249926032014-08-10T11:55:17.082-07:002014-08-10T11:55:17.082-07:00Ok Gil since you missed it (as usual) let's po...Ok Gil since you missed it (as usual) let's post what Bob said again. This time read it SLOWLY:<br /><br />"The American allowed the Emperor to stay on the throne anywway, and the Japanese were trying to surrender for six months. So thousands of Americans lost their lives for nothing. Learn your history before you make foolish comments."<br /><br />Got it now?<br />Mikehttp://www.antiwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-46681878885464829392014-08-05T19:48:26.105-07:002014-08-05T19:48:26.105-07:00I reiterate surrender means a white flag not negot...I reiterate surrender means a white flag not negotiations. Or for matter who was trying to surrender? The Japanese military as a whole or a renegade handful who personally had had enough? <br /><br />Learn your history? That sounds like: read Libertarian revisionist claptrap.Gilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-61714073705299891722014-08-05T15:37:56.915-07:002014-08-05T15:37:56.915-07:00Well-said, Bob. We Americans dropped the bombs to ...Well-said, Bob. We Americans dropped the bombs to scare the Russians, nothing more. The Japanese were already defeated. We knew it, they knew it, the world knew it.Made in DNAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13641061738026416285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-25432815135048234752014-08-05T11:22:31.871-07:002014-08-05T11:22:31.871-07:00What Japan did in China cannot be considered in a ...What Japan did in China cannot be considered in a vacuum. The United States government had its hands even in this:<br /><br />http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-us-greenlights-militaristic-japan.html<br />bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-40618825798676530642014-08-05T10:18:13.710-07:002014-08-05T10:18:13.710-07:00Deflection, dude. Big time.
What about the Unite...Deflection, dude. Big time.<br /><br />What about the United States empire building in the Pacific, long before Pearl Harbor? How about the million or so Phillipinos who were slaughtered, starved and vivisected by the Yanks? How about the thousands upon thousands of Philipinas assaulted and raped by the "brave men in uniform"?<br /><br />Perhaps I missed BM's asseveration that the Japanese Empire was doing the Lord's work. How about you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-3738826109141505382014-08-05T07:33:13.934-07:002014-08-05T07:33:13.934-07:00The American allowed the Emperor to stay on the th...The American allowed the Emperor to stay on the throne anywway, and the Japanese were trying to surrender for six months. So thousands of Americans lost their lives for nothing. Learn your history before you make foolish comments.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-2093224591488129432014-08-05T02:11:07.576-07:002014-08-05T02:11:07.576-07:00Speaking of mass murder, in the course of the Seco...Speaking of mass murder, in the course of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45), the peace-loving inhabitants of that little island slaughtered, starved, and vivisected a minimum of 35 million Chinese civilians. Karma's a female canine and sometimes worse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-63170504690106486072014-08-05T00:55:10.323-07:002014-08-05T00:55:10.323-07:00You don't say? The U.S. had a super weapon an...You don't say? The U.S. had a super weapon and they used in wartime. The V rockets weren't a game changer and Japan's jetstream bombs sure as hell wasn't. <br /><br />Last time I looked surrendering meant flying a white flag and by its definition is unconditional. It doesn't matter if the condition the U.S. decided were what the Japanese wanted anyway - they have to wave the white flag first. More likely some Japanese commanders wanted to surrender while others weren't ready. <br /><br />Playing the "atomic bombs are worse than all other weaponry" is nonsense. The death toll from the atomic bombs (~400,000) is a drop in the bucket to the tens of millions of deaths from conventional weaponry - primarily firearms - the sacred weapons of Libertarians. Gilnoreply@blogger.com