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2007-03-13 China-Japan-Koreas

Japan, Australia to sign defense pact in Tokyo

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Posted by ryuge 2007-03-13 06:57|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...not aimed at reining in China.

Riiiiiight.

Anyway, good to see a nice set of allies being set up in the Pacific.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-03-13 07:14|| 2007-03-13 07:14|| Front Page Top

#2 People in Australia have memories almost as short as ours. If you had told some Aussie in 1945 that this would happen one day he would have KNOWN you were flipping nuts. If the Aussies had been the ones with the A-Bomb in WWII there would now be no Japan. They were pretty pissed off about Jap atrocities against their POWs, particularly what happened to their nurses left on the Kokoda Trail, and they wanted blood REAL badly. And deservedly so.

Posted by Mac 2007-03-13 17:51|| 2007-03-13 17:51|| Front Page Top

#3 mac, the Aussies got blood in spades when Tokyo, Kobe etc. were fire bombed more than once, add Hiroshima and Nagasaki into the mix and you have revenge enough to satisfy any soul.

Besides those three raids untold hoards of Japanese were killed in combat and other areas of Japan and it's outlying islands.

The fire raid on the night of March 9-10, 1945, killed more than 100,000 civilians and razed nearly half of Tokyo in one fire raid, final months of World War II.

140,000 died in Hiroshima. [seems a bit high] the numbers vary with agendas, records can't be that accurate due to the aftermath & chaos.

74,000 died in Nagasaki. etc.

lesson #1; a lesson that most of our politicians have forgotten or have refused to remember is DON'T PROVOKE America into TOTAL WAR.

Posted by RD 2007-03-13 22:41|| 2007-03-13 22:41|| Front Page Top

#4 9-11 and 3000 dead, like the USS ARIZONA = PEARL HARBOR ATTACK, etc. is not a war but an "incident" that requirea total and complete National-Societal militarization + Gubmintization for Safety, Security, Accountability, and Self-protection, BUT NOT TO DO ANYTHING AGZ OUR ENEMIES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-13 23:23|| 2007-03-13 23:23|| Front Page Top

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