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2009-04-08 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by 2009-04-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 "Sorry you picked the wrong country to fuck with, guys. Next time, try Venezuela."

Posted by mojo">mojo 2009-04-08 01:19|| 2009-04-08 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 You know Hugolito, the second time is much easier.

Posted by ed 2009-04-08 01:31|| 2009-04-08 01:31|| Front Page Top

#3 "It is also the only country in the world that dropped the atomic bomb,"

A staple of Kremlin rhetoric during the Cold War(and of lefty academics to this day), as though Stalin would have refrained from nuking Berlin if it had been within his power.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-04-08 06:55|| 2009-04-08 06:55|| Front Page Top

#4 It would have been much better if we had bombed the railroads so that the food could not have gotten from the farms to the cities, resulting in mass starvation. Starvation is a slow, painful, horrible way to die. Probably millions of Japanese would have died.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-04-08 07:09|| 2009-04-08 07:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Suggested wording for the apology:

"Yeah, we're sorry you followed a berserk military cult into a war you couldn't win, slaughtered and raped your way across half of Asia, butchered prisoners of war, forced tens of thousands of women into sexual slavery, and dispersed your war industries throughout your fire-trap cities; but, hey, it does seem that you learned your lesson. We sincerely apologize for not being ready to kick you into the Stone Age in 1941, a consequence of listening to peacenik assholes like the ones who fawn over Chavez today and work around the clock to make sure Iran can get its own nuclear weapons."

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-04-08 07:09|| 2009-04-08 07:09|| Front Page Top

#6 AC - If you need a recommendation for a position as a Foreign Service Officer, I'll be happy to write one.

Posted by GORT 2009-04-08 07:36|| 2009-04-08 07:36|| Front Page Top

#7 While we're on the subject of apologies....

Lt George Bush, then a 20-year-old pilot, was among nine airmen who escaped from their planes after being shot down during bombing raids on Chichi Jima, a tiny island 700 miles south of Tokyo, in September 1944 - and was the only one to evade capture by the Japanese.

The horrific fate of the other eight "flyboys" was established in subsequent war crimes trials on the island of Guam, but details were sealed in top secret files in Washington to spare their families distress.

Mr Bradley has established that they were tortured, beaten and then executed, either by beheading with swords or by multiple stab-wounds from bayonets and sharpened bamboo stakes. Four were then butchered by the island garrison's surgeons and their livers and meat from their thighs eaten by senior Japanese officers.

Linkie

Posted by Besoeker 2009-04-08 08:03|| 2009-04-08 08:03|| Front Page Top

#8 If I was Hugo, I'd apologize for that picture.
What is he supposed to be? A Guardian Angel Cub Scout Pirate?

Posted by tu3031 2009-04-08 12:51|| 2009-04-08 12:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Member of the Village People about to sing YMCA?

Posted by JohnQC 2009-04-08 14:19|| 2009-04-08 14:19|| Front Page Top

#10 What is he supposed to be? A Guardian Angel Cub Scout Pirate? Posted by: tu3031

Whahahaha. I've always thought he looked a bit like Curtis Sliwa with that red beenie.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-04-08 14:23|| 2009-04-08 14:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Right after Japan openly apologizes for doing this on American Territory.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-04-08 20:09|| 2009-04-08 20:09|| Front Page Top

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