8/06/2005

"HIROSHIMA MEMORIALS:" ELITE SCHOOLS TEACH US TO HATE OURSELVES


We're supposed to feel some kind of guilt
for killing people who actually ate our prisoners alive, raped the women of Nanking for eighty straight days, and performed acts of barbarity in Asia not seen since the days of Genghis Kahn. They don't teach about things like this at the "right" places; Harvard, Stanford, or even high schools anymore. They teach that we, the ones who were eaten alive, are the bad guys.

While our Left and the Japanese population demonstrate against our use of the A-Bomb on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war in 1945, attacks which killed around 200,000 people, let’s look at what we did to win the war. Had we had to invade Japan and fight, we would have lost a million young men and the Japanese would have lost twenty million if the prior statistics held.

Japanese war crimes fill volumes. It is estimated that they slaughtered 350,000 in Nanking.

They did it the old fashioned way, one at a time. They tossed babies into the air and let them land on fixed bayonets; marched people into the river and used them for targets; gathered small crowds together doused them with gasoline and set them on fire and laughed while they burned alive; and others they just hacked to death (above). Link to pix of the Rape is HERE. Nobody knows how many they slaughtered in Singapore, but the minimum number cited is 50,000. There was a place called Slaughter Beach, another called Canji (not the infamous prison) where not only were civilians shot in mass, but the Japanese bound people hand and foot, took them out to the middle of the bay, threw them over and then used them for target practice. The Bataan Death March in which at least 10,000 U.S. troops were murdered, usually by the old custom of beheading; 60,000 survivors died in the prison camp later. How about the slaughter of 100,000 civilians in Manilla in 1945? Have you heard the one about the Japanese troops eating American prisoners alive? They did. Even worse HERE. So let's slobber all over ourselves for the A-Bomb. Then there is the horror of the Japanese prison camps where prisoners starved to death by the tens of thousands or died on the slave labor rail building enterprises.

There isn’t a prisoner who didn’t believe that the Japanese intended to murder them all was it not for the Atomic Bomb. Not only were a million American lives saved through not having to invade Japan, but if the casualty ratio held it means that at a minimum, 20 million Japanese would have been killed as well. Japanese deaths on Okinawa were 100,000 soldiers and 100,000 civilians–who fought to the last woman and man---while our losses were 20,000 (highest in the war). Saipan casualties were 3,700 American dead and 61,000 Japanese dead including civilians fighting to the last man.

The civilian population of Japan would have fought to the last man standing, a practice they had already shown on both Saipan and Okinawa where once they had run out of ammunition civilians jumped off cliffs with their babies clutched to their bosoms rather than surrender. And for first person recollection? Try this one:

“In Fukuoka, a truck drove up to army headquarters, collected B-29 crewmen who had been shot down over Japan and drove them to a lonely field, where one by one a lieutenant chopped off their heads with his sword.

They were not the first to die in this manner. The Japanese had beheaded dozens of airmen and used others for bayonet and archery practice. They'd locked them in animal cages and tied them to posts for passers by to torment them (the poor civilians in Hiroshima). They'd burned them alive, buried them alive, dissected them alive and cooked and eaten their body parts. Such atrocities were not confined to wars end nor even to military prisoners. From the very first day of its 14 year war, wherever it went on the continent of Asia or in the Pacific, Imperial Japan had worked and starved and tortured its captives to death.

'We discussed it a lot', recalled Warren Morris, then a B-29 pilot in the 313th Wing on Tinian. 'We wondered whether to bail out or not, because the word we had was that they were executing our fliers....oh, we talked about that. We knew they were killing prisoners.”
The professors will call you a racist if you bring things like this up in the Ivy League....... Our Holy Left would rather have had a million young Americans and twenty million Japanese die than use a weapon to end it fast. What they also say is that America deserved to lose another million. That the war was unjust. Our guys deserved to be eaten alive.

Let’s hear it for our lousy lousy Left.

No Pasaran has a broader piece HERE. Including the point that the Atomic bombs had nothing to do with the Japanese surrender. Only the Emporer was moved by them. The Army wanted to fight. Most history tells us it was the Russians getting into the war that had more to do with Japan surrendering. Mark Steyn has a few things to say too.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Howard, I knew they were bad but I am stunned. I checked your links too and found even more. My God, I hate to admit that I didn't know any of this and I didn't go to an Ivy school. I'm a grad of Arizona State, the place where Shakespeare was banned because it was deemed sexist.

MaxedOutMama said...

Howard - yes, and you aren't even covering the field. The awesome barbarity of the Japanese military during WWII is historically well documented.

I will never apologize for Hiroshima or Nagasaki. I will never feel guilty. Those two bombings saved lives - masses of them. American lives. Japanese lives. Filipino lives. Chinese lives. Lives in many countries.

I regret that it was necessary, but the Japanese were refusing to surrender and preparing for a street-by-street defense. Furthermore, they were actively working on the most horrific weapons of war imaginable.

They were planning to use them on us. See this:
An I-400 and I-401 were captured at sea a week after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. Their mission, which was never completed, reportedly was to use the aircraft to drop rats and insects infected with bubonic plague, cholera, typhus and other diseases on U.S. cities.

There's a good reason why the Chinese hate the Japanese
A secret Japanese Army unit, dubbed Unit 731, sprayed Chinese villages with bacteria, spiked their wells with diseases and laced their food with germs, perhaps killing up to a million Chinese in World War II, according to a new book just out in the US.

"There could be over 700,000 or even 1 million" lives lost to Japan's biowarfare program, Daniel Barenblatt, author of, A Plague Upon Humanity, said in a recent interview.

The book, published in the United States by HarperCollins, tracks Japan's development of biological weaponry from 1931 to 1945 and its use of the weapons -- bubonic plague, typhoid, anthrax and cholera -- on civilians, many of them in China.


And by the way, here's a Tokyo court in 2002 denying compensation to Chinese victims of their activities in WWII. They haven't taken responsibility for what they did at all:
The plaintiffs also claimed in court they suffered psychological duress because the Japanese government has continued to deny the existence of the germ warfare experiments throughout the postwar period. Lawyers for the Japanese government did not dispute the activities of Unit 731. But they argued that under the Imperial Constitution the nation could not be held responsible for any damages caused by the exercise of state power prior to the end of World War II.

The government also urged the court to reject the compensation suit because the 20-year period for filing claims had already passed. Throughout the trial, government officials failed to address whether the Japanese Imperial Army had been involved in germ warfare. Prior to World War II, The Hague and Geneva conventions were drawn up and banned germ warfare as inhumane. But documents discovered in the 1990s showed that Unit 731 had secretly conducted germ-warfare experiments in China.