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very interesting Rick.

If you don't like someone's politics he is lower then Hitler. A funny conection for you to make.

Why I keep clicking your links is beyond me.

Yo Rugs:

This is the author and her claim to fame;

Katie McKy is the author of It All Began With a Bean, which answers a child's true query: "What would happen if everyone in the world passed gas at once?"

No wonder Rick reads her (pardon the pun) crap, old people and farts go hand in hand.

LMAO

JonR

rugrunner

possibly because i post things out of the ordinary and it doesn't matter if you agree or not, the twlight zone was always interesting.

Very true Rick.

It would not have been true if they just ran the same episode over and over again. And to compare this tripe to the twilight zone (quality wise on the writer not on you) is a stretch!

Another interesting observation,

If a brother keeps "clicking your links", despite knowing your politics, why is he surprised when the expected happens?

Another one,

Why is Hirohito "lower than Hitler" because he doesn't kill as many people? Doesn't that make him better than Hitler? I am sure all three had the common traits of psychopathic megalomaniacs exhibit.

Rick,

That's a pretty darn good editorial piece. I really like it. Anyone that can't see the correlation (whether they are pro-Bush or anti-Bush) is beyond me. Good work.

I love this:

"Unfortunately, MacArthur is dead. He can no longer stride into the Oval Office and spend 3 hours, as he did with JFK, urging Bush to be a president and not an emperor, to attend to his country, rather than build an empire."

Truer words have never been spoken.

I like this.

Glad you like it!

Charlie

Adroomi reminds me of Paul Wellstone. He's favorite thing to say was "this is the proudest day of my life to be here with you at_________. He’d say it sometimes 10 times in 1 week.

Adroomi says truer words were never spoken at least twice a day on this board alone.

They might seem that way by Adroomi's standards, which are rather low when it comes to the truth.

And those questions are only interesting to you allbidness, maybe you should wonder why that is?

Rick,

Ten posts on this link and only two of them (3 if you include Charlies response to me) have anything to do with the thread topic.

It's hard to debate and discuss with simple-mindedness.

Editorial views are a good expression of current events. They say that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Comparing Bush to in not so much a direct way, but rather in his values and loss of focus to Japans strife is a good discussion.

Full circle.

You can't even count, widget boy. try 5 plus 1?

Rick/allbidness,

I bring up MacArthur for a reason....this is published stuff:

The foremost Western authority on the life and times of Emperor Hirohito....known posthumously as the Emperor Showa by the way, discussed him in his role as the "living god," and compared him to other powerful twentieth century leaders including Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt and George W. Bush.

In 2000, Herbert P. Bix shattered the image of Emperor Hirohito as a mere figurehead who was detached from Japan's imperialist warmongering in the first half of the 20th century.

Bix argued in "Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan", which won him the Pulitzer Prize, that the emperor was intimately involved in the decision-making behind his military's ruthless campaigns. Hence Bix contends, the Emperor bore heavy moral, legal and political responsibility.

Bix explains why Japan will be unable to realize its full democratic potential without re-evaluating Emperor Showa. Bix also explores what lessons today's world leaders can learn from a study of this enigmatic figure.

At the postwar Tokyo war crimes tribunal, the Allies indicted 28 Japanese war leaders for "crimes against peace," "violations against the laws and customs of war" and "crimes against humanity," including the Nanjing atrocities in 1937-38 and the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Seven were hanged.

Bix maintains that Emperor Showa was shielded from trial by Allied commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his staff, who feared communists and wanted to harness the Emperor's domestic popularity to hasten Japan's recovery, and so suppressed damning evidence of his war involvement. This is how he finally was able to reach JFK and convince him to silence himself and to do something for his country as well.

Eventually, George Bush will be looked at the same way. The similarities are there.....

Rick,

Now you have 4 out of 13 replies to your thread "on-topic" with the other 9 just blathering foolishness.

And of course adreamy is convinced that his are never blathering foolishness.

"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves." T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

I'm familiar with the thoughts on Hirohito, but don't see at all how they relate to GWB. The case in the article was not particularly convincing.

Tuckersdad, give up the name calling.

I disagree with the MacArthur claim, too. The man was an egomaniac, and we're not building an empire (nor were we attempting to in Vietnam, either, but that's a different issue).

If you want to start a list of Americans who sought to build a personal empire, I'd guess MacArthur would be near the top.

Tuckersdad

and your's are from your creator, who speaks to you directly.

perhaps adroomi is not as good a christian as you.

mispelling a name on purpose to make a point is childish and demonstrates the immature mind of the poster.

I need to bookmark this thread - Rick and I finally agree on something.

wjmiskelly

they both thought they were god's messenger on earth.

both of them thought they spoke the word of god.

both of them were brought up thinking they were royalty.

both of them wore expensive custom made clothes.

neither could speak the other's language.

"they both thought they were god's messenger on earth."

False. That doesn't describe either.

"both of them thought they spoke the word of god."

Same as above.

"both of them were brought up thinking they were royalty."

Hirohito was royalty. GWB is about as close as you can come in US politics. In that he's kind of like FDR.

"both of them wore expensive custom made clothes."

Hirohito was a better dresser, though.

"neither could speak the other's language."

I'm guessing you're a perfect match for Hirohito here.