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• • 04 Sep 05
  • 11:20 pm

  I am writing from Tokyo, Japan. Since the start of the war against Iraq, I’ve felt similarities between present Iraq and mine, Japan of before and during the WWII. One similarity is that we both had despotic and savage rulers and the both peoples in general supported them as any people would do when living under authoritarian rule. And that having the such ruler have resulted in the ongoing devastation and destruction in Iraq and resulted in the atomic bombing in Japan. Another similarity is, however, that there were people who risked their lives to oppose the government of the time …

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• • 12 Sep 05
  • 7:49 pm

  Maria, Thank you for your comment. I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. First, I am totally opposed to the planned revision of the Constitution of Japan, because the proposed change is designed to enable Japan to legally wage war with the United States, which is now in the process of updating its nuclear strike plan. Second, I didn’t say people should their tyrannical leadership: I am saying that it is very difficult for the general public to take a stand against dictatorship, as it was the case in the war-time Japan and in your country, Argentina and …

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• • 12 Sep 05
  • 7:57 pm

  P.S. Maria, I forgot to put "support" after "should": It should be read "I didn't say people should support their tyrannycal leadership." Thank you. jimc

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