"Michael Starke" wrote in message
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The recent book by James Bradley, "Flyboys" spends many
pages trying to explain the reasons behind the cruel treatment
of American POW's by the Japanese.

He writes that the Japanese where perplexed at America's indignation
and contempt of the way the war in China was being waged
considering that the model they were following was America's treatment
of it's own indigenous people who, in some cases, were rounded
up and slaughtered.

Absolute ********, the average Japanese soldier in China had never
heard of the Shoshone or Sioux and the US Army certainly didnt
issue instructions that raping women was OK but only if you
killed them afterwards, the Japanese army did.

He also cites the poor treatment Philippinos got
by American forces after the Spanish occupation. Bradley says the
Japanese were not doing anything different than Americans
had done in the west.


So when did the US Army adopt germ warfare in the Phillipines

The Japanese said the Geneva Convention rules did not apply to
Americans because they indiscriminately bombed civilians in
their raids on Japan.


Complete ********. The US raids on Japan didnt start in earnest
until almost 10 years AFTER the Japanese bombed civilian
centres in China

Brutality was a deliberate policy of the Japanese militarists.
Its that simple.

Keith