"Legal Tender" wrote in message
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I see we have that old problem again about if "it" should have been used
or
not..

Well I did some research. I checked over the wanted adds in papers from Ca
to Wa for Oct and Nov 1941.
I did not see any adds from America asking another country to attack us.
Ok we got that out of the way,
We did not ask to be attacked or dragged into a war. We all agree on
that????

The Japs did not honor the Geneva Convention, they did honor the rules of
war.
The Geneva Convention says treat the prisoners good, rules of war say kill
all of the enemy.

No sir , the rules of war do not.

The japs thought it was a dishonor to surrender, that is why our men who
did
surrender were treated as badly as they were. (are we listening out
there?)

Which is balderdash. During the Russo-Japanese war of 1905 they treated
their prisoners well, during WW1 the German POW's taken were so
well treated many stayed on voluntarily after the war .

The simple fact is the militarists who took power in the 30's
used brutality as a deliberate technique of control, both in
their own army and in their dealings with others.


Tojo was a God to them and they gave it all for him and would have fought
to
the last man. I seem to remember many jumped off cliffs rather than
surrender.


Do try and get the facts straight. Hideki Tojo was a general in the army
who became prime minister of Japan in October 1941.

The God emperor was Hirohito who while nominally having
absolute power had none in reality. Up until the 1920's
the Japanese political system was lareky analagous to
that of Britain. There was a cremonial head of state
with an elected Parliament, there was however a fatal
flaw in that the armed forces were responsible directly to
the Emperor and were thus able to circumvent Parliamentary
control and effectively seize power.

Keith