Tom Hanks: War on Terror, War in Pacific Driven By ‘Racism and Terror’
by John NolteYou can watch these very troubling 25 seconds below and understand why Tom Hanks would never have the backbone to leave the comfortable echo chamber of MSNBC and enter an environment where he might be challenged. After the actor is done defaming the war against Imperial Japan as a war of “racism and terror,” he doubles with his anti-American slander and says the same of today’s War on Terror. And no one at Morning Joe challenges him. Not Tom — Greatest Generation — Brokaw, not Scarborough, and Mika Brezezinski can’t wait to agree with him.
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Hanks made similarly outrageous statements in another interview, which I touched on earlier this week – comments that caught me completely off guard. As you might have read in Michael Broderick’s article from yesterday morning, “The Pacific” was a project Big Hollywood was eager to champion and cover. Obviously, we’ll have to see what Mr. Racism and Terror has in store for us on HBO over the coming weeks. But at this point you have to wonder if the Oscar-winner’s obvious issues regarding the War on Terror might not have colored what we’re about to see in his miniseries. Given the opportunity, Hanks has certainly been eager to tie together both wars into a damning but thoroughly indefensible political statement that portrays our country and military in the worst possible light.
We all assumed ”The Pacific” would be another “Band of Brothers,” and maybe it will be. But much has changed since “Brothers,” a miniseries produced prior to 9/11 (the HBO premiere was Sept. 9th, 2001). The very real Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) that has taken over so much of Hollywood and turned otherwise impressive filmmakers into ham-handed propagandists hadn’t quite taken hold yet. However, today Hanks is showing all the symptoms. Will this affect “The Pacific?”
Over at Hot Air, Allahpundit thinks so and writes, “If you were expecting an island-hopping reprise of ‘Band of Brothers’ in this new miniseries, expect otherwise.”
And you can see why.
Something has changed:
But the context for Hanks’ history lessons has changed. Band of Brothers, HBO’s best-selling DVD to date, began airing two days before 9/11; The Pacific, his new 10-hour epic about the Pacific theater in World War II, plays out against a very different backdrop, when the country is weary of war and American exceptionalism is a much tougher sell. World War II in the European theater was a case of massive armies arrayed against an unambiguous evil. The Pacific war was mainly fought by isolated groups of men and was overlaid by a sense that our foes were fundamentally different from us. In that sense, the war in the Pacific bears a closer relation to the complex war on terrorism the U.S. is waging now, making the new series a trickier prospect but one with potential for more depth and resonance. “Certainly, we wanted to honor U.S. bravery in The Pacific,” Hanks says. “But we also wanted to have people say, ‘We didn’t know our troops did that to Japanese people.’”…
John Hinderacker at Power Line asks the rhetorical question: “Does Hollywood Make You Stupid?,” and then goes on to destroy Hanks’ argument:
What is happening today actually bears a considerable resemblance to the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Contrary to Hanks’s thoughtless slander, before 1941 probably not a single American was interested in “annihilating [the Japanese] because they were different.” As evidenced by our laxity when it came to national defense. After Pearl Harbor, however, we had no choice but to swing into action–not to annihilate those who are different, but to defeat Japan and restore the peace. The Filipinos were “different” too, of course, so did we take time out to annihilate them? Um, no.
Likewise with the current conflicts. Prior to September 11, far from setting out to annihilate those who are “different,” we protected Muslims in Bosnia, tried to save Somalians from the warlords, and rescued Kuwait from Saddam Hussein. Notwithstanding endless provocations, Americans were happy to leave it at that until Islamic terrorists murdered 3,000 Americans. Once again, we had to swing into action. So, did we “annihilate” those “different” Afghans and Iraqis? No, we established democracies and tried to bring both of those countries into the modern world by, among other things, liberating their women. How can a person of normal intelligence, as Hanks no doubt is, be so blind to reality? Presumably it has to do with swimming in the perverse, liberal water of Hollywood.
Maybe “The Pacific” can rise above the ignorance of one of its creators. Having a millionaire actor label your selfless and noble sacrifice as “racism” and “terror” is one thing. But to have such a message forever imprinted on film is quite another.
For the sake of our Veterans let’s hope the BDS and the slander it manifests in “Our Jimmy Stewart” is confined to the thoughtless actor’s fevered mind.
A friend who works in the film industry and doesn’t share my politics emailed this morning: “Hanks has been a friend to Veterans for over a decade. You’re being unfair over one comment.”
It’s not as though Hanks said this just the one time. This is twice now in two different settings. And I’ve been in love with my wife for a quarter century, but that doesn’t get me off the hook if I say something untrue and hurtful. I still have to explain, apologize or both.
And if I say it twice…
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And he was so good in Bosom Buddies too.
stupid is as stupid does
and bush stole my chocolates !
I sure hated seeing that video, and reading this article. I had high hopes that The Pacific would be of the same caliber, or exceed Band of Brothers. HBO certainly needs some new, decent programming. Tom Hanks, like most afflicted with the mental disorder liberalism, has reached the apex. It is all downhill for him now. Eventually, they'll have to lock him up in the basement, with Ross Perot's crazy Aunt.
It's interesting that he calls the U.S. military World War II actions as racist and terroristic while in truth the Japanese felt that THEY were a divine and chosen race, that THEY killed millions of their "lessers" in China, that THEY marched thousands or American and Filipino soldiers to their deaths in the Philippines, that THEY regularly killed prisoners out of hand or worked them to death, that THEY decided as military strategy to fight to the death on every island they occupied, that THEY killed or urged their own civilians to kill themselves rather than be captured by American Soldiers and Marines.
Japanese terror and racism is well documented throughout the Second World War. To think that anything the US did in that war could be compared to what the Japanese did is rather naive.
but he was good in Boson Buddies.
Tom Hanks should think before he speaks.
I interviewed Hanks years ago for "Cast Away." Nice, charming fellow. But when I asked him one seemingly innocent question – why he hadn't played a villain up till that point – he snapped at me in a way that wasn't justified. I didn't feel I was challenging him with the question, but that's the way he took it.
But, really, Hanks is absolutely correct. The war in the Pacific was almost entirely about racism. Of course it was the racism of the imperial Japanese who saw themselves as the only humans and everyone else as some sort of subhuman to be dealt with in whatever way the Japanese desired. Ask the Chinese and the Koreans if the Japanese saw themselves as the master race. Ask the soldiers that survived the death march of Bataan whether the Japanese treated their prisoners in an even remotely humane way.
Yep, there was racism afoot.
Sorry to say it, but Hanks is right. Wrong on which side was racist though. The treatment of POWs by the Japanese military was conspicuously racist. Tojo, the Minister of Army, stated in April 1942: "We will construct POWs camp not only in the South but also on the Japanese mainland，Taiwan，Korea，Manchuria and China．Its aim is to induce the peoples of East Asia to place their confidence on Japan．They have felt themselves to be inferior to the Caucasians for a long time." The racist element of the treatment of POWs was more plainly expressed by Itagaki Seishiro, the Commander-in-Chief of Korean Army in his "Internment Program for Korean POWs": "It is our purpose by interning American and British prisoner of war in Korea，to make the Koreans realize positively the true might of our Empire as well as to contribute to psychological propaganda work for stamping out any ideas of Europe and America which most Koreans are still keeping in their minds." The Japanese Military preferred to assign Koreans and Taiwanese, peoples from colonies, to perform lower-level duties such as guards in newly set-up POW camps: "In order to makeａgood influence on colonial rule，we intend to induce these peoples to be conscious that it is a distinct honor for them to participate in the construction of the Greater East Asia as ａmember of the Imperial Army and a loyal subject of the Emperor."
Don't forget that Tom Hanks also participated in the slander of the Catholic Church with the numerous lies about its history in Davinci's Code and Angels and Demons. This seems to be what happens when a comedy actor tries to adopt gravitas after winning a couple of academy awards.
Thanks Tom….you too stooping to this political statement, exploiting soldier's brave exploits, and i'm sure you're you're not making the first nickel off of any of this? Who are you or anyone else for that matter to make judgements on people who are long dead, and times that have changed so much, and compare them to today? What are people to think who follow you? MIKE
Maybe Tom should try talking to some Chinese and Koreans and Filipinos and ask them who they thought the big racists in the Pacific theater were.
Not only that…ask the Japanese that inhabited Okinawa. Even they were treated as subhuman by those from the mainland.
Working in Hollywood I often ask myself how can these people be so stupid sometimes to open their mouths without a script in their hands. To have made numerous projects on WWII and not understand the basic tenants of why we entered the war – well one might ask if he actually paid attention to the films he was actually making?
Why would a great actor want to say things that turn fans into folks who will simply not watch him anymore regardless of the project he is attached. Way to go Tom – turn off your viewers before your series even airs.
Really smart….
The Nazis committed Holocaust, Mussolini hung dissidents with piano wire, and Japan- Unit 731, the rape of China and Burma, Bataan Death March, and of course Pearl Harbor which got us into this war against atrocity in the first place. Americans did not care whether the atrocious enemy was green and from Mars. They had to be stopped as surely as the Nazis and Fascists had to be stopped. For the sake of those who are enthusiastic about the launching of this series, I truly hope that it meets their expectations. I really want it to succeed historically and in honor of our warriors.
Run, Forrest, Run!
Run somewhere we don't have to listen to your self-indulgent prattling.
The whole point of that quote is that Tom Hanks is saying he's better than you..
…see, Tom is above the racism and nativism that animates you – he is a Higher Being – he is a god…
…that's the worldview of all Godless elitists – they believe you are ' lower-evolved ' and consumed by fear and ignorance – and they pity, or loathe, you.
as commented on another thread….
"At least Forrest Gump knew he was an idiot" !!!!!!!
Tom Hanks is about my age, so he may have had a similar educational experience. In my high school American history class, we studied the settlers and the Revolutionary War until around Christmas/January. We covered up to the Civil War until May, then we had to cram all the remainder of U.S. History–Reconstruction through Civil Rights and Vietnam in about a month. College class in American History focused on immigration, slavery, and the Depression. In addition, the Greatest Generation didn't talk about World War II, so we didn't get any insights there–my dad was on a mine sweeper in Europe and the Pacific, but he never talked about it. Apparently, everything Hanks knows about WWII he learned from Howard Zinn.
How utterly disappointing. Here was a guy that I thought "got it" when it came to America, and more specifically our soldiers. And now this.
And what a shock, MSNBC enabling him to be so completely wrong.
What needs to happen now is a few Veterans of the war in the pacific need to publically and vociferously refute everything that Hanks said and demand an apology.
There is a bit of truth to what Hanks is saying particularly the "kill 'em all" quote. The Japanese were so fanatical in their fighting that the Allies were left no other option. My guess is that the some of the brutality the miniseries will focus on is the use of the flamer thrower. It is no doubt a barbaric weapon but when you're up against an enemy where surrender is not an option and sacrifice is a tactic there is simply nothing left to do. This is only conjecture but I would have to think that the unfortunate soldier that had to yield that weapon had to wrestle with some horrific thoughts. Perhaps dehumanization was the only way to cope with having to light your enemy on fire. Hanks other comment is obviously complete BS. There is absolutely no correlation to our the current war.
No winners aloud/ allowed, shame is beckoning tommy skanks.
You understand how fiction works, correct?
So! The movie will not open with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Or perhaps the brilliant Mr. Hanks will refer to it as the first phase in the liberation of the Hawaiian people from their Caucasian oppressors.
Bingo!
Sure do. You get to make all kinds of irresponsible and moronic statements and comments, then hide behind the mantra of "But it's just a novel!!" when you get called on your B.S.
You see, World War II is recognized by the larger culture as America's finest hour; it is therefore natural for leftists to defame it. Break down World War II into a story of American racism, and you break down American pride even further, driving home the idea that our country is indeed the "Great Satan." I will reiterate my point: if the US took Berlin instead of the Soviets, the modern American left would have very nice things to say about the Third Reich.
Next up: The freedom fighters of the Confederacy against the evil, oppressive Union Army.
After that: The Redcoats were right!
I'm not even joking. Just you watch.
Either liberalism is a mental disorder or these people are as dumb as a box of rocks; take your pick. Hank's assessment is so easily refuted with facts that I'm embarrassed for him and his ignorance.
Peter Scolari is avenged!
Wow.
I *loved* Band of Brothers, and regularly watch the DVD tin set I purchased when it became available.
I was actually thinking about re-subscribing to HBO, simply so I could watch this…now I am afraid to.
I think I will wait until after it has aired, and I get some impressions before I will bother watching this.
And the Mormon church with "Big Love"
Anyone think that Tom Hanks was catching a lot of flack from the elites in Hollywood – he plays a Vietnam war hero who punches out a hippie, then an hero Astronaut, then produces a legendary mini-series about WWII American heroes – and has to reestablish his liberal bona fides? The Da Vinci nonsense, Big Love & now this bulldink are what followed his extraordinary record prior to 9/11.
I think that Hanks is really being consistent in his thoughts, and the continued identity politics. Tom Hanks has always been a very far left person either through ignorance or by design, it's a safe position in his environment. His premise seems to be it's people of color that are always targeted by white males, this is always the underlying cause. After all, how can he go wrong, all people of color are victims of white male aggression. It really doesn't matter what the facts are.
This is the mantra of the left, who by the way don't really want ameliorate anything. They're fanning the flames of hatred because to accomplish what they want they need deep lasting fissures. Now whether Hanks is a true Lefty or just a useful Hollywood dumbbell who can say, in his case I suspect it's the latter.
you are so right.
A liberal kook who used to work with me told me that Lincoln started the Civil War in order to steal land for the railroad tycoons.
Oh sorry, by fiction I was talking about the Bible, not Angels and Demons.
I've smelled a rat for a long time with Hanks and Speilberg. If Hitler had stayed out of Commie Russia and not had Jewish death camps, the Nazis would still be ruling Europe, or maybe the world, because people like them wouldn't have given a rat's ass about anything else. So we have the War with japan, devoid of those two factors, and what the hell, the US must be the villain. The Japanese waged war based on their belief in racial superiority; will Hanks explore that? I've always thought that guy was an asshole.
Well to be fair it is historical fiction.
My father was a member of the fifth Marine Division that invaded Iwo Jima, was wounded there and later was in occupied Japan. He spoke very little of the horrific combat that he experienced but spoke often of the Japanese families that he encountered in Japan as to how kind and respectful they were to him and others. He never once cited any episodes of hatred or racism towards the Japanese people on the part of our soldiers. For someone like a Tom Hanks to denegrate his memory with his idiotic comments is beyond the pail. I used to laugh when I'd hear comments about liberalism being a disease, but now…………..?
And I'll never forget the photo I saw not long ago of an American POW, on his knees before his Japanese captor. The Japanese soldier had his sword drawn and back, ready to remove the head of the American, which he did. A bunch of savages.
I read a commentary by a veteran of the Pacific theater in WWII, defending the US decision to drop A-bombs. He said nothing else could have ended the war as quickly and decisively, that if we had had to invade Japan, the civilian population would have fought house-to-house–the elderly, women, and children, with broomsticks, to the last, had we invaded. If there is any comparison to be made, it is that our enemies, then and now, were and are fanatics bent on destroying us.
lol not just a troll but a LAZY troll. Grow a pair and sign up if you want to participate. What, are you scared the evil Christians will call a fatwa on you?
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His name is now added to my list of actors I will refuse to pay and see. – Sean Penn, Spacey, Oprah, Moore, O'donnell, and anyone else who supports Castro.
I dunno. I think Hanks has always been more Jane Fonda than John Wayne. He's just a good enough actor to fake patriotism when the pay is right.
"lol not just a troll but a LAZY troll" I contend there isn't a better kind of troll. And, given, your comment, I was quite the successful troll, while still being lazy.
I'll wait to pass judgement until I see the miniseries. I read Eugene Sledge's book, and he describes episodes where Americans treated Japanese soldiers with cruelty. However, he points out this was the exception, not the norm. He also is candid about how the japanese mutilated American soldiers, and how this was the norm, not the exception. Sledge is honest about the shared feelings the Marines had toward the Japanese.
In the end we'll see what the context is. I won't mind if the new miniseries has scenes where Americans treat Japanese soldiers cruelly, because this did occur. But if the intent is to denigrate the Marines to show they were no different from the Japanese, then I will be pretty damn angry at Hanks, Spielberg and everyone else associated with this project.
There is still hope that the series will be good, since there are people like Captain Dye that worked on it. If they stay true to some of the memoirs like E.B. Sledge's "With the Old Breed" then it will show just how terrible war can get, but necessary. Hanks lives in a bubble even though he will hang out with Veterans and does not understand that during combat there is not this "Oh gee whiz, that other human being is trying to kill me, darn why do I have to kill him."
it was exploited- by both sides- in the narrow view of racism. The real reasons for the war,contrary to the facile statements of Hanks, had nothing to do with racial divisions- but territorial conquest and regional hegemony…
That tells me that his persona while the camera is rolling is a calculated facade. He's phony, a fake. I'd love to see someone call him out on this paricular idiocy.
It bears pointing out that the war against the Japanese did have a racial component to it. Just look at the WWII propoganda's portrayal of Japanese people vs. Germans/Italians. It also bears repeating that when WWII broke out, we rounded up Japanese-Americans and put them in camps and not Germans or Italians.
Hanks is right in a minor context…
But clueless, like most of Hollywood, in the deeper meanings. To reduce the War in the Pacific to physical, and cultural divisions is the comfortable leftist canard reduced to Sesame Street-level philosophy. Just add a little love and somehow we all just get along.
The territorial designs- and mysoginistic and imperialistic views of the Japanese hierarchy when pitted against the dynamo of the rapid ascent of US power was a clash that was just inevitable.
Hanks needs a history lesson. Maybe he should watch his own series. He might learn something…
I can only wait for Hanks to release his next project: :"Michael and Me."
It is reportedly a full length documentary featuring Hanks and Michael Moore, sipping Chardonnay and eating jelly doughnuts, discussing political philosophy. Shot through a wide angle lense of course.
/sarc off
Tom Hanks…You are a complete moron!!!
you may be on to something
the good guy act is starting to fail, I admit he had me snowed until about a year ago
100% accurate. This is why I support very little about modern Hollywood. I get tired of being looked down upon. Since I am from a small, mountainous, Appalachian state, I rank somewhere between those ignorant boobs in the Midwest and pond scum to them. Fortunately, I have quite a large collection of old movies to view from the CLASSIC days of Hollywood, back when they kept their anti-Americanism under wraps! So screw Tom Hanks and his ilk!
Um, is your space bar broken?
Wow! You've got that Hollywood mentality pegged!
That's just it, it's an act. He's not who he wants everyone to think he is. He had me snowed too, and I'm really disappointed that he's this way
Exactly
"Tom Hanks has always been a very far left person either through ignorance or by design, it's a safe position in his environment." This is exactly why I've always resented the Jimmy Stewart Everyman comparisons that have been made to him — or at least were back when he was on his Oscar run. Jimmy Stewart was a PROUD AMERICAN PATRIOT, not a pantywaist, Hollywood lib.
And I know I'm probably alone in saying this, but I thought "Saving Private Ryan" was a load of maudlin crap dressed up with some graphic violence. I could name a hundred superior WWII movies.
"Band of Brothers" was so good because it showed the brutality of war, yet portrayed our soldiers fairly without ever passing judgement on them for the things they had to do or the decisions they made. I can only hope that the portrayal of the soldiers in "The Pacific" is just as fair and not clouded by Tom Hanks' willful lack of understanding about what those young men had to do and the decisions they made. Those soldiers lived through hell and witnessed things most of us wouldn't want to imagine. They deserve so much better than to be maligned by a guy who got his start by dressing up as a woman in a TV sitcom.
Hank Scorpio….if that's not your real name, it's a great Simpsons reference, and if it is, it's just a great name.
The dude is a much better actor that I had thought. Lifetime achievement award? Looks like his act deserves it.
I've enjoyed Tom Hanks in a few movies, 'Splash' and 'Castaways' and 'Band' come to mind. Recently, I've noticed that with each passing year….Hanks gets nuttier. That's probably Bush's fauilt and Karl Rove's, too!
I'm not one to defend Japanese actions in WW2, but the attack on Pearl Harbor was in no ways like the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March or their occupation of Korea (to name just a few). To list it with those atrocities is to cheapen those atrocities. Why? Because let's be perfectly honest: the fleet at Pearl Harbor was a legitimate military target and the Japanese raid was carried out as a military operation that targeted military assets. It wasn't oriented against civilian targets, it wasn't an atrocity, it was a very well executed military operation that caught us with our pants (mostly) down.
I was kind of hoping that Hanks would have a cameo role in the first episode … not a speaking role, just getting greased.
Which bosom was he?
The Democrats have long pushed the absurd notion that WW II was the "Last Good War." They do so because the US was allied with Stalin's soviets & Democrat Marxist TRAITOR Alger Hiss was key aide of Democrat President for Life FDR. Hanks is simply a Democrat Media stooge who ignores the fact that FDR refused to deal with the German Resistance to Hitler who were the only people who could've ended the War & the Holocaust to save millions. Democrat pinhead Truman than A-bombed the 2 most Christian cities in Asia. Hanks's "Forest Gump" was Goebbels style propaganda attacking America & "Band of Brothers" was comic book history by Sephen "plagerist" Ambrose.
I guess Hanks considers the rape of Nanking with it's beheadings and "comfort workers" to be a piece of fiction similar to the holocaust. <sarc>
Yes. That scene flashed through my mind. Hanks running down the beach as Benjamin Buford Blue stands in the background, yelling "run Forrest run!"
Oops. Wrong movie……….
Is it wrong to wish my grandfather, Marine sharpshooter in the Pacific theatre, was still around to take aim at ol' Tommy? Just a flesh wound, though, that's all …
I agree that with Captain Dye on board, there is hope this series will be successful. I seriously doubt he would have signed on if he saw anything that would denigrate our warriors.
“It may be pointless to try to establish which World War Two Axis aggressor, Germany or Japan, was the more brutal to the peoples it victimized. The Nazis killed six million Jews and 20 million Russians…the Japanese slaughtered as many as 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese, at least 23 million of them ethnic Chinese. Both nations looted the countries they conquered on a monumental scale, though Japan plundered more…Both conquerors enslaved millions and exploited them as forced labourers—and, in the case of the Japanese, as forced prostitutes for front-line troops. If you were a Nazi prisoner of war from Britain, America, Australia, New Zealand or Canada…you faced a 4% chance of not surviving the war; the death rate for Allied POWs held by the Japanese was nearly 30%.” (Chalmers Johnson review of Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, London Review of Books, 20 November 2003)
What is wrong with Hanks? This guy is drinking the kool-aid in gulps lately. What a dirtbag!
It's just such a heartbreakingly stupid statement coming from someone who really must know better. It's heartbreaking someone can be that stupid or evil because it has to be one or the other.
The unspoked reason, as to why the Democrats have always pushed WW II as "the last good war" was because their Lord and Savior Franklin "Jesus D. Christ" Roosevelt was their progressive leader.
hanks and spielberg teamed up to make saving private ryan, which did more for the antiwar movement in the first 20 minutes than anyone before or since. the visceral horror had a big subtext. it ignored the heroism ,focusing on the carnage. there some things that don't need repeating, ask most vets. it's about the end, not the means.
they are useful idiots, and dont ever forget it. they keep dressing hanks up and pushing him out the door to the public as the reasonable face of hollywood, its about all they have left. the rest of them have too many charges against them.
"THEY killed millions of their "lessers" in China, …"
After the Japs conquered Nanking in China, they conducted Mengele-like experiments on them. China still uses it to guilt trip them about what they call The Rape of Nanking, partly because Japanese history books don't mention it.
Sometimes, I encounter a young Chinese person for whom that is an issue. I give them a wry grin and say, "The Japanese don't do that anymore."
OK, explain THIS: http://gawker.com/5491446/andrew-breitbart-elitis...
Two words: brain cloud.
My bad. But as an Historian, I get so crazy when they start to redesign history to jive with their crazy ideologies. Sorry and I Will Make sure to be more careful. ;0)
In addition to the history posted so eloquently here by so many let us remember Japan has never apologized, never made restitution, and still to this day does not acknowledge what they did. In the schools of Japan they don't teach Pearl harbor, they only teach that the American aggressors nuked Japan for no good reason.
Hanks comment also belies basic psychology. There is no such thing as a 'kinder gentler war' nor should there be for many reasons.
Tom Hanks is not quite ready to admit that our war against the Nazis was unjustified, as well…but he will soon enough – it is only a matter of time, as Nazi-chic sweeps through Europe and America again.
not only would they still be ruling over Europe, people such as Spielberg and Hanks would act as their ambassadors
Well, now I have a perfectly good reason to download 'The Pacific' for free without an iota of guilt
Point well taken and agreed. I lumped everything together for the sake of brevity.
Can we PLEASE start voting with our pocketbooks and refuse to see the projects these "useful idiots" produce? I am astonished at the stupidity that comes out of the mouths of these tools. My father-in-law drove a "meat wagon" in the pacific – now in his 80's and is getting screwed again by the leftists whose freedom he fought for- the horror he witnessed – good God, for this? How did we forget so soon?
Hanks is 53, Breitbart is 41 (according to the Wired article- REALLY???) and looks even older…explain that, neo-con!
Too true. I went to school in Japan and not one person I asked had ever heard of Pearl Harbor.
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Here's one of the best Japanese sword head removal stories:
This morning, I heard Don Imus interview James Bradley, the author of Flags Of Our Fathers. That was a story about his father who was one of the men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima.
As a result of the book, Bradley was called by an 80 something year old man in Iowa. That man told him of how he had been a secretary at a war crimes trial on the next island over from Iwo.
Nine air force flyers had gone down near the second island. Eight of them were captured by the Japanese. While the battle of Iwo Jima took place, these guys fraternized with their captors: tea, talk, et cetera. When the Americans finished, on Iwo, 22,000 Japanese had died.
The 25,000 Japanese on the next island over assumed that the same thing would happen to them. So they executed the eight American Air Force personnel by cutting their heads off with swords. All their families had been told that they died in combat, and because of the horror of the deaths, the military withheld the truth, and even classified it.
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The man from Iowa had been sworn to secrecy by the military. After the war, that man became an attorney. In the 80s, the 1946 info was declassified, so – as an attorney, he knew how to do the research – and he set out to prove the truth. Then he called Bradley.
The ninth man whose plane had been downed was swimming to the island. He said that he was crying and praying. Japanese guys on a cliff overlooking the ocean watched him swimming ashore. They were preparing to capture him.
However, a submarine surfaced. The flyer panicked, thinking that the Japs had captured him. But in fact the sub was American and he was rescued.
The flyboy was pilot George Bush.
Unfortunately it's not my real name, but he's one of the best characters in the Simpsons universe.
Like most of the progressive elitists hailing from Hollywood, Mr. Hanks has little room in his small world for anyone except Mr. Hanks. His deliberate attempt to revise history is consistent the mouthings of his contemporaries, idiots all. America is exceptional and always has been, unless of course Mr. Hanks can turn fact into fiction.
Didn't they already give him one of those? And if memory serves, didn't a couple of the real men from Easy company get on the stage and salute him??
wonder if those men still feel the same about him after this….
Hanks is just another Hollywood trained monkey with a liberal larva brain spouting the company line….racism. Give us a break.
Just read a book about Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and the POW camps they set up. They were racists and barbaric.
I have said before it is not celeberties opinions that drive me away from the theater, its their arrogance. Witness Sean Penn. Tom hanks has always had leftist views but he's never been arrogant. He's always been polite and courteous. His comments regarding our war with Japan are some of the most ignorant words on record.
I will not refuse to see this because of Tom Hanks, but I will wait for the reviews. If it's a blatant hit job on America, I'll refuse to watch. If it's a somewhat reasonable portrayal of the war, I'll watch it.
thumbs up but I don't know…I tend to think its an agenda. Crazy people usually are more disorganized.
My dad landed on the beach at Okinawa on April 1, 1945. He was not a racist. He probably wouldn't have talked to Tom Hanks about what happened there and he wouldn't have taken a dollar for being there, unlike Hanks and Speilberg who are making millions on what brave men did in the war. I really hope he didn't mess up this story because the story of what happened in the Pacific really needs to be told for the people who fought there.
absolutely! no more $
Hmm… has Tom become a "Clear"?
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