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grafton
DickMorris at 01:38 PM JST - 20th December “grafton; You mention the US military enetering Iraq with one arm tied behind its back, which is untrue. Support for the troops was strong then, unlike now, where shortages of equipment and lack of moral due to poor leadership is turning Iraq into a civil war zone.”
As far as that goes I agree with you, public support for the troops was strong, but I don’t believe they have ever been given the freedom to operate outside of political control. I believe that Washington (then and now) tied their arm behind their back in the beginning, then the press got in on the act and turned many Americans against the war. Perhaps with some justification given that it was now taking far too long, because of Washington’s interference. Had the military been allowed to fight a war to win in both Iraq and Afghanistan they would have done so by now. If the military were given both the materials they need and the freedom to use those material this could all be brought to a very quick end. Yes, it would be bloody and nasty, but which is better, the slow sick blood letting we are seeing now or a quick end to this so the people (and troops) of all the counties involved can move on and start rebuilding real lives rather all having to live in a low level war zone possibly for years?
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grafton
So far nobody knows who or why this sign was taken, so on that basis it is still reasonable for people to offer opinions that though they may differ from yours are just as possible. Doing so however does not in any way diminish the twisted reasoning that must have existed in the minds of those who committed this act, even if they are found to be drunken students. Nothing I wrote above takes anything away from the horror and the barbarity of the holocaust because I was not commenting on the holocaust, I was commenting on the theft of the sign, the two things are related but are not the same thing except in the minds of simple souls that wish to make meaninglessly antagonistic remarks.
numbskull at 07:34 PM JST - 20th December
You take me to task by saying that in the past Jews were hated all the world over, I doubt that I really need telling that. My reason for pointing the finger at the Poles was because this theft took place in Poland and the Russians get a passing mention because they controlled that country for so long. I did not forget the bigotry of the rest of the world, I simply didn’t see it as being a part of the story.
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DickMorris at 07:43 AM JST - 19th December
“grafton and adaydream; Your attacks on the former administration are getting tiresome and annoying.”
I think you take a moment and do a little careful rereading of what I wrote above. I make no mention at all of either US administration and what I said was in defence of what the US military could have done if they had been allowed to do their job rather than being politically controlled by which ever administration happened to be in power. I think you owe me an apology.
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seijichuudo9sha at 10:48 PM JST - 19th December “Europeans really scare me sometimes.”
Europeans may scare you but have thought that the reject Europeans make up the foundation of a number of other counties populations and that I find even scarier. As for these twisted sign robbers, it will be disappointing for many if they turn out to be a bunch of drunken students, but it would be as well to remember that the Poles had no more love for the Jews than the Germans did, so this hardly shows a sign of changing character. It was only world pressure that stopped the Poles (and Russians) from bulldozing all the concentration camps after the war.
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grafton
Be careful where you go with this one, this must be one seriously smart 10 year old to have come up with the idea of getting his opinion put before the court.
Yeah, right, I can just see this poor kid being rehearsed over the next two months as to what he needs to say in court. And I get the feeling the Brazilian judge is enjoying being the centre of attention. Making him a Brazilian hero fighting against the big bad Americans.
I feel sorry for both the father and son.
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These men with a religion from the dark ages who reject the modern world and all it’s evil ways don’t seem to mind borrowing from the evil west when it suits them. But then again what idiot sends up drones without encrypting their video signals? Now the men in black rags know how the system is used and that is half the defence against it. If you know how it is used and what it can do then you can take precautions against it. The American military went into Iraq and Afghanistan with one arm tied behind their back by bleeding hearts at home and with one stupidity after another they losing the use of the one good arm they had. They are not allowed to fight wars to win, only to look like they are the good guys and they are not even managing that.
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grafton
Well the idiots wanted to go to Pakistan, so fine, leave them there and allow them to experience how Muslims care for other Muslims in Muslim prisons. They might just change their opinion of western values, if they live that long.
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Nobody wants this man found, dead or alive. As things stand he’s doing a god job for the US and the nut job Islamics. If he was killed at Tora Bora his own team would have kept that quiet, so too would the Americans. And what level of good information have we had about him since then?
Finding him alive and taking him to the US to stand trial would be a nightmare, he may have taken credit for the World Trade centre but we don’t really know if that was true or simply in both his and US interest at the time. Does the White House want this man in an American court with American lawyers saying what he wants to say to every news out let in the world? Not a chance. And that alone leads me to believe he is dead, because if he were alive he too knows just how much real damage he could do just by handing himself in and he would. Him in an American could, would do more damage than every suicide bomber of the last five years. He is the Boggy man to frighten the American people with.
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Second thought.
How is the old dear planning on stopping those nasty foreigners from publishing picture she would rather not have published or is she only trying to keep her own peasants in ignorance?
Posted in: Queen Elizabeth tells paparazzi to back off
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My heart bleeds for the old dear. After such a hard life it is only right that she be able to put her feet up at home and not have to worry about nasty little commoners taking her picture, foreigners too. And it’s just not right that people should know all about those out of control louts her grandchildren have turned into, that’s a family matter.
The peasants need to remember their place, they only there to serve the royal family in exactly the way they are told. And of course pay the bills.
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grafton
The 11.13 is meant to signify how little time we have left before dooms day. It’s trite and without the least foundation in any reality, but to a young brain washed mind it helps them feel they are being ever so smart. As others have said I am sure they flew to Japan and will be flying back to their nice none environmentally cosy homes in the US after they have put down a huge carbon footprint making this totally pointless gesture. I would have had more respect for them had they walked to their own capital city, but then that wouldn’t have been as much fun as a self-righteous trip to Japan. More arrogant cretins.
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Woods is a golfer and as far as I know the colour of his skin hasn’t been helping him get little white balls down little dark holes. But then I come from a football mad little Caribbean island and know next to nothing about golf, though I have always thought of it as an old white mans game.
Alphaape and Wolfpack have made some excellent points. What seems to have been missed is all the racist comments from the whites, oh! Sorry, there haven’t been any, maybe that’s why. Maybe the whites are not seeing Woods as a black man messing around with white women, which would suggest that the mantle of racisms has been passed to the blacks in the US, they after all seem to be the ones making the most of this (as they did with Obama). And yes I would be just as happy to see some of them face a charge of racist incitement as I would any white that vomited this evil thinking.
This black reaction just might be a part of the reason woods avoids being drawn into questions about his identity. However having as much (though different) mixed DNA in my own blood I can understand how he tries to not get involved with other peoples politically motivated agendas. Having been married to both a black and a white women, both extremely beautiful and sexy, honest. I have to say that given a choice of the two from the point of view of which was easier to live with, the white lady wins. Much less ear ache.
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LoveUSA at 06:43 PM JST - 6th December PHOTO BY JUN SATO If you think Jun Sato did a bad job of taking the photos you are very, very wrong, I saw a whole collection of photos in Jiji tsushin yesterday and they didn’t look any better. They couldn’t look any better. I was with a number of Japanese women when we were looking at the photos and ALL of them were disgusted by this selection. Singapore bar girls seemed to be the most votes for what they looked like and I think they were being kind. Singapore bar girls would at least be sexy, something few of these girls seem to be. They do not in any way represent Japanese women even if they are such. I find it sad this lot are going to be seen as Japan’s beautiful women when they are anything but beautiful.
wajisin at 10:10 AM JST - 6th December
You need to get a new monitor, Emiri Miyasaka is wearing a white dress, not a yellow dress.
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grafton
I get the feeling that Perm is trying to get it’s status as a Russian city up graded, last week we had two (or 3) down and outs killing and eating (yes, eating) another down and out, and then selling the left overs to a local kebab shop. Now we have this, 76 dead in a single blast? Moscow really will have to work harder to keep up.
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grafton
What utter stupidity, throwing ones shoes about like that. Have any of you got any idea just how cold it is in Paris at the moment? And yes it is raining too. And this fool now has to walk home with at least one shoe missing. Idiot.
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grafton
I don’t really care if the man was trying to surrender when he was shot; he killed four people for no other reason than the fact that they were police. For me the fact that they were police officers makes no difference, they still had a right to life equal to anybody else. The danger lies in the mind set of the officer that killed him, yes I agree that he did the right thing, but what if extra judicial killing becomes the accepted norm? There’s a grey area here that we might all have to think very carefully about. Today we might agree with this way of doing things, tomorrow it might be somebody we care about that has been removed to save tax payers the cost. Let’s be careful what we wish for.
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grafton
Believe it or not the child will have no memory of this, any more than they will have memories of medical examinations that they have gone through. The child needs protecting from this mother not for what has done but what she is likely to do in the future. The woman obviously has no protective values towards her own child and is unlikely to develop any. Yes that makes her a bad person in our eyes, it makes her a danger to the child. She needs educating, not burning at the stake.
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grafton
What a whirlwind of hate, bitterness and anger this story has managed to generate and in the process exposed the thinking of many as to their attitudes to the Japanese as a whole. Is what this woman did with her child acceptable? No, not in a million years of anybodies distorted thinking. But is she the monster that so many believe her to be, did she do as much harm to the child as so many here believe? No.
But at what point does this become an issue that gives anybody grounds to attack the people of Japan? These two people have been arrested and the child taken away so we must assume that the police and social services did and are doing their jobs. Now speak to the people around (the Japanese people) you about this, they are as revolted by this as you are. Some will be reticent to speak, but this is because they are ashamed that this happened in their country, much as we are ashamed when it happens in our counties and it DOES happen in all our counties. But are we held to account every time it happens the way so many here hold the whole population of Japan accountable?
This is a horrible crime because of its motivation, not because of the harm done to the child, so long as photos alone were taken no harm was done TO THE CHILD.
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I have yet to see any evidence that I could have faith in that Bin Laden is still alive, be he buried under in some cave in Tora Bora or if he died in some Saudi private hospital it makes little difference. He has become the figurehead replacing Che on the t-shirts of many. Very publicly dead he would have been the martyr so many Muslims would have wanted, at least “alive” he still has some use to the US as the boggy man. All that we the people (of the world) have ever seen come out of the whitehouse and the pentagon in respect to this or any other of America’s conflicts are lies. Why is anybody taking this new set of lies any more seriously than the previous ones?
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Nihonlover at 12:32 AM JST - 23rd November
“I have done some studies about Islam. At one stage, they were really a great civilization.”
“algebra, chemistry, algorithm, alcohol, admiral, magazine, atlas, almanac, talcum, cotton, etc etc”
“Which are in fact Arabic...”
Yes, Arabic. Not Islamic. The introduction of Islam brought an end to Arabic civilisation.
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