Scholar links Bush's US and Hirohito's Japan

[Kadie]

Scholar links Bush's US and Hirohito's Japan
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TOKYO (AFP) - A top US scholar of wartime Japan said Wednesday that the Bush administration's "war on terror" bore close parallels to Japan's past militarism through a defiance of international law.

Herbert Bix, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his landmark biography of wartime emperor Hirohito, said he believed US aerial bombings and alleged use of torture in Afghanistan and Iraq constituted war crimes.

"The current American rampage in Iraq and elsewhere, not to mention the Bush administration's threats of war against Iran, so clearly replicates Imperial Japan during the period when its leaders willfully disregarded international law and pursued the diplomacy of force," Bix said during a visit to Tokyo.

Japan defied the Nine-Party Treaty guaranteeing China's sovereignty, signed in 1922 in Washington, when imperial troops invaded Manchuria in 1931.

Bix compared Japan's action to current US efforts to scuttle the Treaty of Rome establishing the International Criminal Court, which President George W. Bush argues could unfairly target Americans.


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[shadowknows69]

1. Well, if someone accuses him of being like Mussolini

the shrub will have the trifecta.

[mmonk]

2. He's like Mussolini.

[shadowknows69]

3. Cool now we can work on comparisons with the lesser dictators

[mmonk]

8. Pinochet?

[sutz12]

6. Not like Mussolini...

Mussolini made the trains run on time. Now, if Bush could fix the airline fiasco we're in, maybe.

:evilgrin:

[chelsea0011]

4. Bush has always said historians will judge his presidency......

.....one slap after another.

[Kadie]

10. I guess he was right about something. n/t

[tom_paine]

5. All Totalitarian Scum, Left or Right, share certain characteristics

That is what is humorous about this. Hirohitio's Japan bears resemblence to Nazi Germany bears resemblence to Stalin's Russia bears resemblence to Marcos' Phillipines bear resemblence to Papa Doc's Haiti bears resemblence to Modern BushPutinist China bears resemblence to Modern BushPutinist Russia bears resemblence Modern BushPutinist Amerika.

They are ALL of them inextricably linked by their hatred of freedom and their contempt for the people they rule as well as the rule of law.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

7. Wowie. A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian all ready adjudges Bush a dictator.

:rofl:

[VP505]

9. Will that be Bu$h's legacy?

Known as the only US President that replicated Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany and possibly Mussolini's Italy in eight short years. WOW, now that's an accomplishment to write home about.

[Bonobo]

11. I know Mr. Bix.

He is a good friend's father.