[Healeys] Friday Funnies

[Bob Spidell]

At least that would have been greater punishment than GWB has 
administered to Osama bin Laden.

bs


WILLIAM B LAWRENCE wrote:
> But the Imperial Japanese Army didn't have anything to do with Pearl 
> Harbor. We should have sent FBI agents to Tokyo and demanded that 
> Yamamoto be handed over. All it takes is a little diplomacy, Right? 
> Then we could have spent years haggling over where and how to try him, 
> whether he had rights under Geneva even though Japan never signed, 
> whether it would damage our national soul or "standing in the world" 
> if we executed him etc. In the end we would have settled on us as the 
> root cause of his rage and acquitted him so he could come back and do 
> it again. We would have paid reparations to...uh...somebody, 
> apologized to the Emperor's mistress and ended up driving Japanese 
> cars....Oh wait!
>
> Bill Lawrence
>
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