JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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"no rational person want to see more civilians irakis dead "
On the contrary, "anti-war" types like grouchy gaijin and sushisake3 - anyone who uses the bogus Lancet figures of 1 million plus dead since regime change in 03 - seems to me quite eager for as much death as possible, if it can be seen to discredit US foreign policy in even the slightest way.
Posted in: Bloodiest week this year for U.S. troops in Iraq
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It's almost sad watching how pathetic the Democrat party has become. The once-venerable Lefty rag New Republic now has writers who are insinuating that Hillary Clinton, who coined the phrase "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy," is now part of it:
"Strange how the Clinton approach to strengthening the Democratic Party is remarkably similar to the GOP's approach to strengthening the Democratic Party."
Posted in: Hillary Clinton silences Bill after new gaffe over Bosnia
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"Bubba must have pretty thick skin to be verbally assaulted by HRC, effectively silenced, and just smile right back, when in public."
He's a "liberal" male, he used to it. He enjoys it.
Posted in: Hillary Clinton silences Bill after new gaffe over Bosnia
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"Bush's war has multiplied that x82.6 for a total of 1.2 million+ in 5 years."
It's clear, when you post figures as wildly inflated as those, that you couldn't care less about the Iraqi people.
Iraqbodycount.org, hardly pro-America, puts the number killed at between 80 and 90 thousand.
Posted in: Bloodiest week this year for U.S. troops in Iraq
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Very incisive post there, Ms Colmar.
Yes, why would Iran want the largely Shia swath of Iraq that runs from Basra up to Baghdad? I mean, it's not like this would allow them a direct link to Syria and from there vastly enhanced capability to arm Hamas and Hezbollah, fighting Iran's proxy wars, intent on destroying Israel and recreating Lebanon to their advantage.
No, Muslim nations like Iran are through with imperialism. This is a sin only America can be guilty of.
Posted in: Bloodiest week this year for U.S. troops in Iraq
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Victor Davis Hanson:
"No rural Pennsylvanian clings to religion more than Obama himself, who for 20 years sat silent in the pews, while a hate-spewing minister damned his country and most everyone else. The question is not why Pennsylvanians “cling to their religion”, but why do the Obamas still cling to the Trinity Church that seems far more extreme than anything I’ve seen in rural America."
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"So here we have the essential Obama, a walking paradox between the postmodern hip-Ivy-Leaguer who sneers at middle-class America’s supposed prejudices and parochialism, while at the same time courting an anti-Enlightenment, prejudicial demagogue like Jeremiah Wright. For free trade or anti-free trade? For 2nd-amendment rights or not? Post-religious or pious and fundamentalist? For public campaign financing or not? A uniter of various groups or someone who sees America in terms of “they”? Straight-talking or someone who evokes "context" to explain away the inexplicable?"
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2Y3MmU4OTViZjQ5YTA5ZGUzZjhiOWJhYTIzMGM2ZTE=
Posted in: Obama concedes remarks on 'bitter' working-class voters ill chosen
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"It [our "moral authority"] has diminished to the point that the citizens of many of our allies now see us as the greatest threat to world peace."
Ah yes, back to popularity polls again. The Lefty media elites at Reuters and BBC hate America. We already knew that. But I don't see voters in France, Germany, the UK, Japan, Australia, Canada, South Korea, Denmark etc. electing leaders whose victories could, by any stretch, be called a rebuke of the alliance any of these countries have with the US.
Posted in: Cheney, other top officials OK'd harsh interrogation techniques
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“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
You can't get much more disdainful of ordinary Americans than that.
But I'm confident our impartial, unbiased media will find a way to restore the sheen to the Anointed One's image.
Posted in: Obama concedes remarks on 'bitter' working-class voters ill chosen
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What an embarrassment Bubba has become.
Unique in US history is this ongoing spectacle of aged democrats Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Like Lefty leaders of banana republics or of spectacular failures of social engineering like Cuba, they just can't resist the urge to play president for life.
Bizarre.
Posted in: Hillary Clinton silences Bill after new gaffe over Bosnia
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' Invading another country for oil for Israel is, as Tom Clancy calls it, "Armed Robbery Writ Large." '
What is Ronald McDonald saying about this war?
Posted in: Bloodiest week this year for U.S. troops in Iraq
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"Just cause he's off the deep end doesn't mean everything he says is wrong. I never understood how the Germans could let someone like Hitler come into power but thanks to Bush, I understand."
Iran, under the same Islamic theocrats ruling today, sent 200,000 children to their deaths in suicide squads in their pointless 8-year war against Iraq back in the 1980's.
Bush's fault?
Posted in: Ahmadinejad accuses U.S. of using 9/11 as pretext for invasions
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Informative little snippet there, mareo. I can see why you didn't provide the link (to wikipedia) since this is also there:
"In April 2007 former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet released his memoir titled At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA. With regard to al-Libi, Tenet writes the following: "We believed that al-Libi was withholding critical threat information at the time, so we transferred him to a third country for further debriefing. Allegations were made that we did so knowing that he would be tortured, but this is false. The country in question understood and agreed that they would hold al-Libi for a limited period. In the course of questioning while he was in U.S. custody in Afghanistan, al-Libi made initial references to possible al-Qa'ida training in Iraq. He offered up information that a militant known as Abu Abdullah had told him that at least three times between 1997 and 2000, the now-deceased al-Qa'ida leader Mohammad Atef had sent Abu Abdullah to Iraq to seek training in poisons and mustard gas. Another senior al-Qa'ida detainee told us that Mohammad Atef was interested in expanding al-Qa-ida's ties to Iraq, which, in our eyes, added credibility to the reporting. Then, shortly after the Iraq war got under way, al-Libi recanted his story. Now, suddenly, he was saying that there was no such cooperative training. Inside the CIA, there was sharp division on his recantation. It led us to recall his reporting, and here is where the mystery begins. Al-Libi's story will no doubt be that he decided to fabricate in order to get better treatment and avoid harsh punishment. He clearly lied. We just don't know when. Did he lie when he first said that al-Qa'ida members received training in Iraq or did he lie when he said they did not? In my mind, either case might still be true. Perhaps, early on, he was under pressure, assumed his interrogators already knew the story, and sang away. After time passed and it became clear that he would not be harmed, he might have changed his story to cloud the minds of his captors. Al-Qa'ida operatives are trained to do just that. A recantation would restore his stature as someone who had successfully counfounded the enemy. The fact is, we don't know which story is true, and since we don't know, we can assume nothing."[8]
Posted in: Cheney, other top officials OK'd harsh interrogation techniques
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Great idea.
If the thought of being tried by a jury of their peers and the verdict quite possibly being decided with a round of rock-paper-scissors doesn't scare J-criminals straight what will?
Posted in: Do you think the jury system, which will be introduced in Japan next year, is the best method of determining guilt or innocence in the courtroom?
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sushisake3 - you're boring me here. Your question is absurd. The Taliban does not waterboard its enemies, they behead them. They shoot them in the head. They blow them up. They blow up your compatriots in Afghanistan. Videos of such incidences are all over the net.
Can you find me a video of the Taliban waterboarding some unfortunate soul? I'd settle for an article. Or, since you seem to believe they are a legitimate political entity on par with the democratically-elected gov't in the US maybe you can get us a declaration from their media spokesman as he explains their position on torture.
Posted in: Cheney, other top officials OK'd harsh interrogation techniques
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"...you counter by suggesting that I should get out of Japan."
sezwho - I don't suggest or demand you leave. As I have said before, I'm pleased that the taxes you and grouchyGaijin pay in part help to fund Japan's role in assisting the US in the global War on Terrror. I'm puzzled, in light of your views on US foreign policy and capitalism, as to why you (and posters like sushisake3) remain.
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"We have made a huge mistake in giving official countenance to torture. Given that a majority of the intelligence community believes torture to be ineffective in information gathering, our use of it seems more vindictive than practical. It has resulted in a lessening of American prestige and a diminution of American moral authority."
Yeah. Like it did after Vietnam, where we also "tortured" Viet Cong by waterboarding them.
Weak argument from you.
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Barack Hussein Obama is a racist.
He made that clear long before the comment cited above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI77cU3jsFs
Posted in: Obama says voters are angry, bitter
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CIA agent: "Waterboarding Saved Lives"
That about settles it for me.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/11/agent.tapes/index.html
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cleo -
" I read it that you were certainly insulting the military in Iraq, with the snide comment that you imagine most of them are 'aware' of what they're doing. Not a very high level of intellect you're imagining the people who 'serve' you have."
My response was crafted in reply to taka313, tired and defeated chickenHawk "logic." What you need is to read a bit more carefully.
"You lot didn't even join in [WW2] until it was nearly all over."
Ah yes, we were supposed to, in the midst of the Great Depression, completely remake an ailing civilian economy into a military one solely to help preserve your overextended empire and remedy your diplomatic errors and policies of appeasement with Hitler?
I can't wait to read the reasoning they used in teaching you that.
sushisake again asks:
"If you were captured by the Taliban or some other terrorist group, strapped to a board and waterboarded to within an inch of your life, would you complain?"
If it's a little waterboarding you think the Taliban (which you seem to grant political validity equal to that of the democratically elected gov't in the US...) does to its enemies I'm not surprised you're gullible enough to proclaim that "global warming" is the greatest threat we face.
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And it only took 49 years of Castro to figure it out! -
He also has acknowledged that state salaries are too small to live on, and pledged steady improvements. But Terrero said simply raising salaries will not do enough, because workers who all earn the same have little incentive to perform well at their jobs.
Posted in: Cuba legalizes private titles to government homes, lifting of wage limits