Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:26 am
Jae wrote:On a serious note, I'm not fat but I do get called "fag" a bit
Fag.
Riot wrote:What has this thread turned into?
cyanide wrote:Suckee-suckee 5 dolla. Me so horny, me love you long time!
It has become a thread where cyanide sells his "tricks and services".
Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:12 pm
Bang wrote:The japanese should actually be "thankful" of the bomb. Now before you say anything, read what I'm going to say.
1.) It allows them almost complete absolution from blame because of the huge impact.
2.) It saved millions of lives. Hirohito actually wanted Japan to fight more, stating he was willing to sacrifice 2 million lives for the war. Why did Hirohito eventually surrender?
a.) The Russians were coming and there was much more chance of the Russians killing Hirohito than the US.
b.) Since the surrender statement is the ONLY official Hirohito order (since everything else was burned or hidden), Hirohito could then claim he was a puppet and get away with it.
I thought you're going to say that Japan develops into such a high tech( electronics stuff and etc) because they were given such a chance. The rebuilding work was very successful.
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About WWII, i think Japs were aggressive in the attacks. Don't forget that they were a small country and they were cooperative. They had the chance to take over China if they didn't go touch US.
So on one hand, Japs were pretty impressive.
Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:24 pm
Strike Freedom wrote:Bang wrote:The japanese should actually be "thankful" of the bomb. Now before you say anything, read what I'm going to say.
1.) It allows them almost complete absolution from blame because of the huge impact.
2.) It saved millions of lives. Hirohito actually wanted Japan to fight more, stating he was willing to sacrifice 2 million lives for the war. Why did Hirohito eventually surrender?
a.) The Russians were coming and there was much more chance of the Russians killing Hirohito than the US.
b.) Since the surrender statement is the ONLY official Hirohito order (since everything else was burned or hidden), Hirohito could then claim he was a puppet and get away with it.
I thought you're going to say that Japan develops into such a high tech( electronics stuff and etc) because they were given such a chance. The rebuilding work was very successful.
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About WWII, i think Japs were aggressive in the attacks. Don't forget that they were a small country and they were cooperative. They had the chance to take over China if they didn't go touch US.
So on one hand, Japs were pretty impressive.
People don't realize that their empire was actually bigger than Nazi Germany's empire at their height, but I don't think Japan had enough resources to invade China without invading the US. The Chinese invasion was taking longer than they expected.
Like I said before, the japs had to attack the US sometime because they needed the resources of the Phillipines. The US had frozen their assets and put an embargo. The japs were desperate for oil, and other resources. (most of Japan's oil came from the US) They attacked Pearl Harbor to stop the reinforcements from coming to the Phillipines. It wasn't really a "stupid idea" like most people think. They underestimated the American people's willingness to go to war when attacked however. Thinking that they'd still remain isolationist...so maybe if they attacked the Phillipines, America wouldn't have been able to gather support from their people...who knows..