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Okinawa Demands US Military Leave

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Deji McGever, Jun 19, 2016.

  1. Deji McGever

    Deji McGever יליד טקסני

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    Nope not leaving -- sorry Japan you and Germany are stuck with us... forever.
     
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    As Marine vet, I'll say that the Okinawans have every right to demand that the base leaves. Marines, especially the infantry battalions that deploy there are not known to respect the local area. There have been several cases of unruly Marines disrespecting the Okinawans and one incident of a Marine raping a Okinawan in 1995.
     
  4. CometsWin

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    Lets leave. Okay, next.
     
  5. Deji McGever

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    Yes, well...I'm wondering what the Tru Patriotz have to say. I don't know if you noticed, but in the last 20 years or so, the whole country has taken its love of the military somewhere that's nearly NSFW.
     
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    Not that I'm making light of the seriousness of this marines actions but I would imagine that the okinawans have probably raped a few of their own in that same timeframe.

    Obama is a blight on international relations. He is a blight on national relations as well.
     
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    US liberals everywhere are rubbing one out to this story, it gives them an excuse to bash the military, something they basically live for but is considered unacceptable these days among people that matter.
     
  8. Cohete Rojo

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    The described events in Okinawa that have been perpetrated by US Marines are unfortunate. That said, tell the Okinawans to go suck an egg.
     
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    Obama's weakness on display again. President Trump will build the biggest, classiest military base in Okinawa and the Okinawans will welcome the biggest classiest American military.
     
  10. Mr. Clutch

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    The Japanese government wants a US base there
     
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    Doesn't matter which branch, some turds will always **** it up for the rest.
     
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    Trump wants to get paid or he will leave
     
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    Everyone wants Trump to leave. How much would he have to get paid in order for him to do that?
     
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    Should have thought of this before you bombed Pearl Harbor dumbasses
     
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  15. fchowd0311

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    I believe those people mostly don't exist today or at the very least are geriatrics.
     
  16. Cohete Rojo

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    Yes, and when the US slave-era generation died out so to did all racial bigotry - which explains why there is no racial bigotry anywhere in the US, what so ever.
     
  17. okierock

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    Hey.... I was about to post that
     
  18. fchowd0311

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    A military decision made by military commanders to attack another nation's military installation unprovoked is something that is ingrained within culture as much as 300 years of slavery and the rhetoric to justify it using religion and racism?


    K.
     
  19. Cohete Rojo

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    Oh, how cute. You think that what the Japanese did was just a spur-of-the-moment, isolated event with no relation or context to previous centuries of Japanese history?

    K.
     
  20. fchowd0311

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    Wasn't spur of the moment but common sense dictates that 300 years of trying to justify slavery with the Bible and explicit racism has more deep rooted affects in culture than military commanders deciding to attack Pearl Harbor.

    How many modern Japanese people are reminiscing about Imperial Japan? How many modern Americans reminisce about the Confederacy?
     

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