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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (660353)	11/15/2004 12:04:55 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Our treatment of POWs was extremely humane, to the point where attempts at escape were exceedingly rare. We captured Japanese as well as Germans, although most Japanese preferred suicide to surrender. They were fed well, housed in quarters comparable to our GI's, and not abused. Compare that to the treatment of our POWs in Japan. They were turned into slaves working in dangerous mines, totally contrary to the Geneva Convention. They were fed only to the minimum point of not starving. Those that survived came home virtual skeletons. Many POWs in Japan were used as guinea pigs in diabolical medical experiments. A number of the Doolittle raid pilots were summarily beheaded. Yet we never blamed or punished the Japanese public. Instead, we restored their devastated country. Why do some people even today ignore such barbarism, while going out of their way to retrospectively label our wartime leaders as "disgusting" and "eternally shamed"? What makes such people tick?