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yelspal
hahaha - controlled demolition? Seriously - how gullible can you get?
Posted in: Do you believe that Al-Qaida was responsible for the events of 9/11
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yelspal
Maybe it's because Obama has figured out there is no difference between a religion and a political ideology.
"Ultra"-conservatives/nationalists/anarchists - followers of any extreme political movement demonstrate the same un-thinking "faith" that dodos following the christian/muslim/judean, and in fact any other religion, do.
There seems to be a human trait for blind adherence to religious/political dogma, although I just don't get it. It seems like mental illness to me. I can't think of single war or even minor conflict that isn't rooted in some moron insisting his brand of god/race/government was the right one and it was his/their/our/your DUTY to show unbelievers the error of their ways.
However ignorance might be strength, but is also weakness. The US constitution, may be outmoded, but it was written by intelligent, people, and it just won't be bent to suit as easily as that. As intended, it thwarts one sect deciding whats good for everybody.
Posted in: Obama says Muslims have right to build mosque near ground zero
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yelspal
Good looking, but a moron.
Posted in: Japanese version of 'Ghost' to be made
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yelspal
"...her colonizing quest..." ?????? Unbelievable.
Posted in: Do you think that ceremonies for victims of the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should include references to the victims of Japan's acts of aggression before and during World War II?
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yelspal
I can assure you that the USA wanted none of Japan - if Japan hadn't have provoked the USA they would have remained isolationist and continued to distance themselves from the mayhem Japan was creating in Asia.
Jackpot? - gee they got to pour Billions and Billions of dollars in to a spiritually, morally and financially bankrupt country for decades. What was second prize?
Ludicrous - and I'm not commenting to you further. No-one is that misinformed, so it is deliberate revisionism.
Trying to rewrite the history around them dishonours the memory of victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and makes their deaths even more senseless than they were.
"Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it" (George Santana).
Posted in: Do you think that ceremonies for victims of the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should include references to the victims of Japan's acts of aggression before and during World War II?
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yelspal
Sabiwabi - I have utterly no idea what this sentence means - maybe with some more time at that school... However I stand by the statements although they have been pulled - I don't know why as they were on topic.
Like many people posting here - I consider your version of history to be so flat out wrong as to be offensive. And, while Pearl Harbour was a cowardly act and foolish strategic error on Japan's part - there is no direct relationship to the atomic bombings.
Implying atomic bombs were dropped on a country trying to surrender in retaliation for Pearl Harbour is disingenuous at best, but a dangerous lie at worst- because it tries to equate US actions during WW2 with Japan's. An implication that everybody involved was equally culpable of war crime. Whereas that is just not true - Japan committed vast vast atrocities - more than any country except, perhaps, Germany.
Posted in: Do you think that ceremonies for victims of the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should include references to the victims of Japan's acts of aggression before and during World War II?
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yelspal
arrestpaul, the Emperor had accepted the terms of surrender. But regardless, the quotes I provided still prove that the bombs were completely, 100%, unnecessary. Those who decided to drop the bombs were complete, 100%, scum
BS. And Truman had the final decision to drop that bomb. If you compare the integrity of Truman (and Roosevelt before him) and the Japanese leadership, it's clear where the epitaph "scum" belongs.
Posted in: Do you think that ceremonies for victims of the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should include references to the victims of Japan's acts of aggression before and during World War II?
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yelspal
I do not believe that.
Of course it is. A single bomb that even might injure a civilian instead of a (volunteer) soldier is wrong.
Posted in: Do you think that ceremonies for victims of the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should include references to the victims of Japan's acts of aggression before and during World War II?
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yelspal
Japan had thrown those out years previously. Their military and leadership were responsible for VASTLY VASTLY more innocent lives lost than anybody in history, except perhaps Hitler's Germany.
This was putting down a rabid dog - not a game of cricket my good man.
When there's a monument to the victims of Unit 731 in downtown Tokyo - I'll take this whining a bit more seriously.
Posted in: Do you think that ceremonies for victims of the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should include references to the victims of Japan's acts of aggression before and during World War II?
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yelspal
um - no it's not. Tell me why the USA should have expended one more life than necessary to end a war Japan started? Started by dropping bombs on civilian targets in China by the way.
The USA expected fierce resistance. Japan had fought like crazy - sacrificing military and civilians alike right across the Pacific - for useless islands of no sovereign importance to Japan. I just don't see why they should have done that when they had another option.
Posted in: Do you think that ceremonies for victims of the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should include references to the victims of Japan's acts of aggression before and during World War II?
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yelspal
No I don't. the services are for the victims of the only wartime atomic bombing.
However - there was no reason why, possessing a superior weapon, the USA should have wasted any more of their men's lives by invading Japan. The fanaticism was such that even after two atomic bombs much of the Japanese military wanted to fight on. Duh.
Posted in: Do you think that ceremonies for victims of the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should include references to the victims of Japan's acts of aggression before and during World War II?
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yelspal
wind?
Posted in: NZ teen survives 16-story fall onto concrete floor
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yelspal
I will reiterate that there are things that go on in the world that are uncivilised in any country. Do you really need a list of things that are simply wrong regardless of the cultural tradition surrounding it.
Here is an example - http://www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/iran-stoning-sentence-for-adultery-draws-outrage. This drew criticism from around the world - because stoning a woman to death for adultery is wrong - no matter "what you like to do in your country".
Animals are not killed for food in the way dolphins and whales are killed in Japan in - what I regard to be - civilised countries.
Woman are not sentenced to being stoned to death in what I regard to be civilised countries.
Posted in: 'The Cove' star says dolphin video shows cruelty
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yelspal
That'll be the mercury attacking your internal organs - you had better see a doctor.
Posted in: 'The Cove' star says dolphin video shows cruelty
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yelspal
This is one of the differences between Japan and other countries. If an incident like this occurred to an Australian government-owned ship there would be an exhaustive investigation. Full stop.
The notion concealing pertinent data from other country's authorities also investigating the incident would be ludicrous.
It is a different mind-set - and one that allows too much autonomy to vested interests. Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha are writing cheques that sooner or later the Japanese government is not going to want to cash.
Posted in: Anti-whaling activist Pete Bethune gets suspended prison term
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yelspal
Yes - noted this little bandwagon last few days. But I'm sure there's time.
Posted in: Anti-whaling activist Pete Bethune gets suspended prison term
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yelspal
Yes - he clearly had motive. Charge him.
Posted in: Anti-whaling activist Pete Bethune gets suspended prison term
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yelspal
Glenn Inwood is a PR hack for whalers and tabacco. He's also the guy that lied to the aircraft firm in Tassie telling them he was trying to locate the SSCS by air on behalf of the NZ government. You might as well quote the guy on the harpoon - except you'd get a straighter answer.
Posted in: Anti-whaling activist Pete Bethune gets suspended prison term
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yelspal
Arrestpaul - I am typing this slowly for you. Boats need to be be moving fast enough to get steerage before they can manoeuvre at all. At no time did AD have anywhere near enough speed on to do anything about what happened.
The video is not ambiguous.
I have considered that I've owned boats for years so perhaps it is not so obvious to other people. So I pretended I lived up a mountain under a rock and had never seen a boat. And had another look.
Nup - it is still a video of a big boat running down a little one. It tries to get away - but doesn't get anywhere near succeeding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbuq0YEIPNU
The second part of common sense v1.0. Nobody would deliberately drive a small boat under a big one in the Southern Ocean anyway. Not SS, and certainly not Peter Bethune. It is suicide. It was nearly murder.
You keep calling them "mad". However, it is ridiculous, as in to be ridiculed, to propound that Peter and his crew deliberately drove their cockle shell under a steel boat - by cunningly not moving - because they were all insane.
Posted in: Anti-whaling activist Pete Bethune gets suspended prison term
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yelspal
sigh
Posted in: Anti-whaling activist Pete Bethune gets suspended prison term