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Mon May-02-11 05:26 PM
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| You can't complain about OBL not getting a trial unless you protested about Admiral Yamamoto . . . |
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not getting one.
The fact that most of us weren't alive in 1943 is a mere technicality.
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| ladjf
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Tue May-03-11 09:14 AM
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| 1. Admiral Yamamoto was an active combatant in a raging world |
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war and was the commander of the Japanese Navy. The American planes ambushed him as his plane approached an Island in the Pacific. I see no similarities in the legal issues about Bin Laden.
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| DainBramaged
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Tue May-03-11 09:16 AM
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| 2. That is the longest reach I've ever seen on DU |
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Tue May-03-11 09:21 AM
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| 3. He had plenty of time to turn himself in and face a trial, he chose not to then resisted capture |
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I will not shed any tears for him.
Plus he was an active combatant against the US in a war.
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Tue May-03-11 09:22 AM
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| 4. EPIC FAIL for fallacy of false equivalence. Welcome to my Ignore list - n/t |
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Tue May-03-11 09:35 AM
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| 5. Yamamoto was not considered a war criminal. |
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Tue May-03-11 09:35 AM
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| 6. DUers want Obama to be more like FDR. |
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