In Honor of RimJob: Hideki Tojo's Postwar Legacy

[jmowreader]

Over on FR is Jim Robinson's mental meltdown. (For DU newbies: if you took DU founder David "Skinner" Allen, removed three-quarters of his brain and converted him to Republicanism, the resulting mess would STILL be more intelligent than RimJob Robinson.) In it he mentions General Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and engineer of the Pearl Harbor attack.

This is what Wikipedia says about Tojo's postwar period:

After Japan surrendered in 1945 Tojo shot himself in the chest in a suicide attempt. He survived and was arrested a short time later. He recovered from his injuries at a hospital.


He then was tried by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East for war crimes. He was found guilty of the following crimes:

count 1 (waging wars of aggression, and war or wars in violation of international law)
count 27 (waging unprovoked war against China)
count 29 (waging aggressive war against the United States)
count 31 (waging aggressive war against the British Commonwealth)
count 32 (waging aggressive war against the Netherlands (Indonesia))
count 33 (waging aggressive war against France (Indochina))
count 54 (ordering, authorizing, and permitting inhumane treatment of Prisoners of War (POWs) and others)

He was sentenced to death on November 12, 1948 and executed by hanging. He is the only head of government to date to be executed for war crimes.

Change the names of the countries involved and you could say the same shit about Unitary Executive George the First.

[meegbear]

1. Am I missing something?

:shrug:

[jmowreader]

2. A lot, but not much really

Jim Robinson, who runs FreeRepublic.com, published a long-winded rant in which he decried Senators John McCain and Russ Feingold's efforts to keep the parties (the Repugs mostly) from secretly paying bloggers under-the-table to hype one party or the other.

Think back to the Jeff Gannon scandal. Think about Drudge. NewsMax and WorldNetDaily. Those guys are almost certainly in the employ of the GOP. McCain and Feingold will try to get this shut down, or at least to admit that the Republican National Committee is sending them money.

In Robinson's screaming he compared John McCain to Hideki Tojo, the Japanese prime minister during World War II.

As we recall, Tojo was hung like a cheap counterfeit Thomas Kinkade print due to his prosecution of the war. The charges for which he swung included waging unprovoked war, waging aggressive war and sanctioning the torture of prisoners.

Sounds a lot like Unitary Executive George the First if you ask me.