BertieWooster's past comments

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  BertieWoosterMay. 18, 2013 - 05:26PM JST

  Virtuoso,

  Your sarcasm comes through very clearly.

  But I wonder if you have any idea just how much devastation the US caused in Iraq?

  Whole areas of major cities razed to the ground.

  Hundreds of thousands killed.

  Not just combatants, but innocent women, children and elderly people.

  Many more condemned to a slow death, injured and without any means of support.

  ALL based on a lie, "Hussein has WMDs, we know where they are," etc., etc. And all really for oil, nothing more.

  God knows, Hussein was a greedy despot. BUT he had his country under some kind of control. There are MANY Iraqis who say it was better then.

  Posted in: Iraq violence kills 25 as PM blames sectarianism

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  BertieWoosterMay. 18, 2013 - 05:17PM JST

  GG2141-san,

  Is this true?

  We can see unlicensed 'pirate weather girls' on YouTube?

  Whatever is the world coming to?

  We'll all be murdered in our beds!

  Posted in: Taiwanese weather girl idol group to take Japan’s national weather forecasting license exam

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  BertieWoosterMay. 18, 2013 - 03:49PM JST

  National Weather Forecasting License Exam?

  But of course!

  Wouldn't want to think of a weather forecaster operating without a license!

  Heaven forbid!

  Posted in: Taiwanese weather girl idol group to take Japan’s national weather forecasting license exam

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  BertieWoosterMay. 17, 2013 - 06:15PM JST

  noriyosan73,

  Just get the USA military out of those countries and JAPAN as fast as possible.

  I don't think we need to worry. The U.S.A. is vastly overreaching itself, going rapidly down the road to bankruptcy like the USSR with military overspending. And Japan certainly cannot afford to support them with "sympathy money" for much longer.

  Posted in: U.S. Congress rethinks 9/11 law on military force

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  BertieWoosterMay. 17, 2013 - 06:11PM JST

  Sectarianism?

  No. Can't be.

  At the command of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Iraq is now a democratic and free country.

  Isn't it?

  Posted in: Iraq violence kills 25 as PM blames sectarianism

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  BertieWoosterMay. 17, 2013 - 06:08PM JST

  smithinjapan,

  Agreed!

  There seems to be a phenomenon at work when brainless idiots are let loose in a place where nobody knows them, whether they are British lager louts in Spain, soccer hooligans or US servicemen.

  There are, as you say extremely intelligent and well-mannered, Chinese, British, American, etc., people.

  And there is the other end of the evolutionary scale.

  It's not confined to any one nationality.

  Posted in: Some Chinese tourists 'uncivilized,' says top official

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  BertieWoosterMay. 17, 2013 - 05:00PM JST

  Of course, Hashimoto has never abused a woman in his life.

  Has he?

  Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation

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  BertieWoosterMay. 17, 2013 - 08:15AM JST

  DudeDeuce,

  Death or at least life imprisonment.

  He's done it once and he'll do it again.

  Unless he's cured.

  And neither the psychs nor the prison system can do that.

  But at least, a life sentence will keep him out of harm's way.

  I pity his cell mate, though!

  Posted in: Defender in Guam crash-stabbing case seeks expert for psychiatric evaluation

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  BertieWoosterMay. 17, 2013 - 08:12AM JST

  Tamarama,

  It's not for China to decide who 'owns' Okinawa, it's already owned by the Okinawans.

  Oh, if only that were true!

  On paper it's owned and administered by Japan. The US also seems to think they own it, or at least 20% of it to do with it whatever they want.

  Posted in: Chinese general says Ryukyu islands do not belong to Japan

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  BertieWoosterMay. 17, 2013 - 08:07AM JST

  JeffLee,

  I agree. Okinawa is to Japan what Ireland is to Britain.

  100% correct. I have made this point too myself.

  Okinawa has its own distinct culture, food culture, music and lifestyle.

  Tokyo clearly doesn't want it.

  Posted in: Chinese general says Ryukyu islands do not belong to Japan

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  BertieWoosterMay. 16, 2013 - 11:26PM JST

  Of course he's insane.

  So what?

  He did it, didn't he?

  If the psychs could cure him, it would be different. They can't, so the only thing to do is put him where he won't do any further harm.

  Posted in: Defender in Guam crash-stabbing case seeks expert for psychiatric evaluation

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  BertieWoosterMay. 16, 2013 - 08:30AM JST

  I was waiting for a bus outside a local station near Sapporo several years ago. A bus was standing there with its door open, waiting for passengers. There was a continuous tape loop that said, "Megimino eki yuki basu desu. Kikenbutsu wo motanaide kudasai." (This is the bus for Megumino station. Don't carry dangerous (i.e. bombs) articles.)

  After about ten minutes, it was driving me nuts. I asked the bus driver if he had to play it and he said that he had been ordered to do so.

  I don't know what bright spark thought that one up. But all that it was doing was scaring the people on the bus. I hardly think it would deter a terrorist - even if one was as cheap as to take a bus. "Listen Achmed. It says we're not allowed to take bombs on the bus. You got enough for a taxi?"

  It's the same "committee think" mentality that allowed the power plant disaster to happen in the first place and that is now trying to respond to the accusation that it isn't terrorist proof.

  Gawdelpus!

  Posted in: No matter what, we'll never allow terrorists to break into the plant.

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  BertieWoosterMay. 15, 2013 - 10:51PM JST

  No matter what, we'll never allow terrorists to break into the plant.

  Now why does that not put my mind at rest?

  Posted in: No matter what, we'll never allow terrorists to break into the plant.

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  BertieWoosterMay. 15, 2013 - 08:46AM JST

  danalawton1,

  Hashimoto also said the U.S. Military currently in Okinawa should visit local Sex Industry Establishments in order to reduce Rapes there.

  They already do, don't they?

  That industry will be the one that is hit hard when the US troops leave Okinawa.

  Posted in: Hashimoto says comfort women system necessary for wartime troops

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  BertieWoosterMay. 14, 2013 - 11:09PM JST

  Bass4Funk,

  Why anyone takes these old farts seriously is so way beyond me.

  The problem is that Hashimoto is not an old fart, at 43, he's a relatively young fart.

  Posted in: Hashimoto says comfort women system necessary for wartime troops

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  BertieWoosterMay. 14, 2013 - 10:18AM JST

  If comfort women are necessary in wartime, aren't they doubly so in times of peace?

  I mean, the men have got all that time on their hands when they could be doing something useful.

  (Sarcasm)

  Posted in: Hashimoto says comfort women system necessary for wartime troops

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  BertieWoosterMay. 13, 2013 - 12:40PM JST

  Whaling and militant anti-whaling are as bad as one another.

  Posted in: Sea Shepherd is asking for cash donations to help finance its anti-whaling campaign. Are you going to donate?

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  BertieWoosterMay. 12, 2013 - 09:30PM JST

  What a wonderful country!

  A woman is assaulted and robbed and it's in the headlines.

  In the U.S.A. it wouldn't even make the newspapers.

  Posted in: Woman assaulted, robbed on street in Hiroshima town

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  BertieWoosterMay. 09, 2013 - 10:58PM JST

  Mark Elrod,

  I don't think you have much idea how much money the government of Japan pays in "protection money" to the US military:

  The Democratic Party of Japan-led government announced on December 14 that it agreed with the U.S. government to conclude a new special agreement in order to maintain about 190 billion yen in the annual "sympathy budget" for the stationing of the U.S. forces in Japan. The agreement will be signed in January and be effective for five years. Under the new arrangement, a total of nearly one trillion yen of Japanese citizens' tax money will be poured into the coffers of the U.S. military in Japan. This article points out how absurdly generous the Japanese government is to U.S. servicemen with the use of the "sympathy budget."

  It's all about the money.

  http://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=1377

  Posted in: Drunk U.S. serviceman arrested for trespassing in private residence

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  BertieWoosterMay. 09, 2013 - 10:53PM JST

  Saketown,

  America and Japan will have to democratise their own countries first.

  Surely you don't think of the U.S.A. and Japan as being democratic, do you?

  Posted in: Japan protests to China over Okinawa claim