Reply With QuoteFair point!Originally Posted by Sprint
YarnMaster
His mouth gets ahead of his what????
Fair point!
Wizard
SupporterBrain?
Wizard
SupporterAh. I see you got there before me....
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Hands up anybody who thinks Mr Abbott writes his own speeches
Fossicker
it seems to me that some people just like to be 'outraged'. because they believe that they can occupy the high moral ground in an argument & be 'Holier than thou!"
I listened to that part of the PM's speech & believe he referenced specifically the submariners when referring to their honour etc.
I do believe that those servicemen believed they were doing their duty, no less than our servicemen believed they were doing theirs.
Whilst the context might have been slightly out of place, it seems fairly clear to me that the PM made no wider reference to the Japanese armed forces.
However, no matter what I or anyone else says, if you want to be offended, by these words, or anyone else's words, you will look for & probably find something to be offended about.
Master
Unfortunately our PM is a weasly lying politician. He has made it quite clear that in the "heat of the battle" he will say anything that is politically expedient and the truth be damned. There are less surviving WW2 Australians and far more asian immigrants to vote, so he just did the math.
Im amazed that a man who publicly admits to lying can still be thought fit to govern a nation. What happened to men of integrity? I lament for what our society has become.
ChatterBox
Hi
It was a very stupid thing so say given the importance of our relationship with China and the history around Nanking, Shanghai etc
Two books iformed me greatly abotu the Japanese in WW2, "Straight Left" by Tom Uren and "Weary Dunlop" the Autobiography of that great man.
Tom Uren talks about how he forgave the Japanese and even met his former gaoler.
Both very inspirational books
Steve
ChatterBox
SubscriberThe saying goes, forgive but never forget.
This should have been put into practice with the schooling of Japanese students, just as we have for decades learnt of our wrongs against the indigenous population.
Well most of us, Abbott obviously didn't listen
Swaggie
My great-aunt Maria Christina, had 13 children, 5 girls, 8 boys. All 8 boys enlisted in the Second AIF. One was sent home when his claim to be a labourer was revealed to be a bit of a porky. He was a tool and die maker. Of the seven who served overseas three were on the Burma Railway and one died (was murdered?) there. The two survivors maintained to the end of their days that it was a pity that "the yanks only had two of those bombs". They regarded the Japanese as being outside the protection of law and one should have been able to shoot them on sight.
URSUSMAJOR
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