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Well, goody for Stewart.
He has the luxury of making that kind of value judgment sixty years after the fact, without considering the context of the times.
Yippee for the FaceMugging Comedian.
Justified war is not a criminal activity. Remember, that Truman had only a handful (3?) of these new types of bombs. He had to use this very limited resource effectively to end the war a quickly as possible. Two did it.
Keep talkin Jon boy. You are a great recruiter for the GOP. The more you talk the more people know who the Democrats represent.
Jon Lebewitz you’re a moronic little Jew aren’t you? What a pitiful (man?) you are….. And you aren’t funny….
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learn your history jonny boy. my grandpa spent 3 years trying to stop the genocide of your race and was grateful as all get when he didnt have to go fight the japs. the japs had every man/woman/child armed in some fashion and ready to fight to the death. 10 million of them would have died and 500,000 to 1,000,000 US soldiers would have been KIA WIA in fierce guerrilla fighting for 2-3 years. General Lemay killed a lot more with his firebombing than the nukes did. but the nukes and only the nukes made the jap command give in and even then the issue was hotly contested by some of the diehard bushido code leaders.
wake up liebowitz!
Yes Jon…please keep talking. We love it when you let us inside your tiny mind.
Isn’t Stewart a Scottish name? Somehow you don’t seem Scottish.
All Americans know that Mr. Stewart, who never saw a lick of combat duty, has the most important opinions on whether we should have traded American lives for Japanese lives after a long, bloody and devastating struggle….
wtf??????????????
You can carry your liberal morality to the grave then Stewart, just stop dragging me along.
Go live in FRANCE where you belong!
Say Tojo
That dipstick is what is know as a Jordan Highlander. He changed his name to get a free kilt.
If Stewart is so gung-ho on the Geneva Convention, than watching John Stewart is torture and there should be criminal hearings.
From here on out when I hear of Jon Stewart I will picture him with his dress pulled up over his head running around in circles crying, “I surrender, I surrender! Don’t hurt me please!”
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: Jon Stewart wants to coddle the worst
: international terrorists and criminals
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You could tell Jon’s liberal audience wanted to clap for him soooo badly … but couldn’t.
They tried a few times. Wow! When you shut up the liberal crowd up like that you know you are giving them something they can’t argue .
Jon tried … but wasn’t convincing.
Most people don’t know enough about this subject matter to make an informed decision but they make these judgement calls ALL the time. Liberal are crap!
Why does anyone take a comedian’s political ravings seriously? Japan was given the ultimatum:
Surrender or be completely destroyed. They refused. Hiroshima was hit. AGAIN Japan was given an ultimatum. They refused AGAIN. The second bomb on Nagasaki made them see the futilty of fighting on. Truman dropped the bomb to SAVE millions of lives in a ground war, ours AND theirs! So you see
Jon, the Japanese DID see the power of one bomb first AND STILL refused to give up!
Man I wish liberals had thir facts straight.
First the Geneva Convention only applies to uniformed soldiers in a defined military of a country that signed the treaty. If you don’t have a uniform you are an unlawful combatant (spy) and you can therefore be shot. That’s the Geneva convention.
If nuking the japs 15 miles off coast would have worked how come nuking Hiroshima didn’t. We only had the two bombs at the time and it tok yeas to make them with 1940’s tech.
When exactly has America not used torture in the last 200 years.
Why is it liberals cannot make a single point without lying. Even when they might have some level of argument they lie through their teeth.
I think Stewart’s views represent use of nuclear bombs currently, with a huge stockpile at our command, and hundreds of planes capable of delivering the bomb(s). I may be mistaken, maybe Stewart felt we should never have hit a Japanese city, or not two. As another poster mentioned Truman only had a few bombs, so wasting one off shore would have been crippling to our war effort.
More than likely the US, and possibly a few other countries have sh*t in prototype, and maybe finished weapons, that if citizens knew what they could unleash, wouldn’t be able to sleep at all. Even back as far as Viet Nam there was stuff developed beneath Physic’s buildings in our largest campuses, that would have curled your hair.
Wow One extremist liberal trashing a another liberal.
Truman did what he thought was right ,He in fact did save the lives of at least ONe million men ,(as one poster earlier posted), MY father fought in the pacfic theater , on guam, phillippens,lagon, and another i keep forgetting ) . for maybe the only time Iagreed with a DEMOCRAT , truman did the right thing, ended the war maybe 1 to 2 years early.
I wonder how Jon feels about Israelis bombing supposable Hamas fighters and end up killing 1000’s (over the years) of civilians instead. Their homes destroyed, whole families, etc.
I bet he doesn’t have a problem with that. Why? Because he Jewish and well when it comes to them and their own they NEVER do any wrong and are above criticism.
*and now begins the count down to me being called antisemitic. Because as stated above Jews/Israelis are above any and all criticism, regardless of how many innocents are being killed.
“All Americans know that Mr. Stewart, who never saw a lick of combat duty”
And he never sent anyone off to war on a fool’s errand either. Unlike Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, and the rest of the Neocons.
“I wonder how Jon feels about Israelis bombing supposable Hamas fighters and end up killing 1000’s (over the years) of civilians instead. Their homes destroyed, whole families, etc.”
Actually, he has a big problem with it, which you would know if you watched the show. Stewart’s no Israel Firster.
And BTW, my father also fought in WWII (he was a P.O.W.), and even he is saddened by what went down and some of the actions we took. I wouldn’t call Truman a “war criminal” per se, because I think he just did what he thought he had to—he wasn’t patting himself on the back about it. Which is the clear difference between him and someone like Cheney, who can’t stop being smug about the “rightness” of torture.
For the record? Jon apologized last night for applying the words “war criminal” to Truman. Although I doubt that means he approves of raining destruction on civilians.
it must suck to be a conservative and get owned every night.
Tell that to my old man, he was scheduled to be in fifth wave into Singapore, this is after Italy & Europe. Jon you are your own worst enemy
@trashosaurus
I have watched the show and I have never heard word one about him denouncing Israel to the point of calling them “war criminals”, etc.
But if he has I stand corrected. Unlike many I have no problems admitting I was wrong. Now only if those in government (both Dems and Repubs) could do that! heh heh heh Yeah I know “fat chance!”
: )
Cliff May is wonderful. He is really pushing Stewart…forcing him to really look at his views and the direction they’re leading (in fact, in retrospect, this could probably be construed as torturing Stewart). I love having someone who is clearly intellectually superior to Stewart. Stewart has become a ridiculous narcissist since ratings revealed young people were looking to him for their news. Personally I think watching his show is torture. Perhaps someone should prosecute Stewart. He’s making me uncomfortable. Good lord.
Stewart is the definition of a very small uninformed man!
I have to laugh at the idiot leftist that point out what conservatives did not serve in war. Frankly it is stupid idiotic reasoning. Numbers show that 70% of the military is conservative, 29 percent moderate and 1% liberal. So you sad pathetic leftist trolls that worry about doing your fair share of military service? Just shut the h-ell up, you pathetic fools.
Ok, the three teenage pirates that Obama put bullets in their heads, given a choice, would they choose Obama death by bullet in head or waterboarding? Given a choice, is it more moral to waterboard three known terrorists that killed 3000 Americans or drill a hole in the head of innocent unborn babies and suck out their brains? Please, you self serving sick twisted leftist that want to discuss morals after what you choose to do? Please, go to h-ell where you belong.
kmichaels…yeah I was waiting for the moron who adds abortion to the atomic bomb thread….what a TOOL.
You don’t justify getting your nose in EVERY woman’s reproductive choice by comparing a medical procedure, to bombing hundreds of thousands of civilians.
The two Japanese cities blown off the face of the Earth weren’t the most strategic targets in Japan, they picked the largest populated cities. NOW that would be considered BARBARIC, hence the surgical strikes on individual buildings, and even dropping leaflets on areas warning civilians to LEAVE.
kmichaels
PROVE 70% of the military are Conservative and post a link to your claim…it’s just more cr*p you pull out of your A$$!
Actually, mark, sad gay tool, the issue was morals. And it is obvious that you have none. It is also ever so obvious that you have to be pretty selfish, sick and twisted to want to murder innocent unborn babies and then try to pass off that pathetic excuse of it just being a private decision. I guess we could use the idea that we waterboarded in privacy so that justifies anything, since that is the rationale that slobbering fools like you use to justify abortion. There is no difference of killing a baby in a womb or killing a toddler in a room. It is simply a physical location. Yet you, mark, in your sick and twisted mind will equate it to an issue of choice or privacy. Justice however will judge the situation correctly. As to your justification of Obama putting bullets into teenagers heads and claiming that it is somehow magically different than waterboarding is just laughable, as you always are. Tell you what, you airhead retard, if you were given a choice, would you prefer a bullet in your head or to be waterboarded? Take your time. Well, nevermind that, either way you are sure to be retarded and arse backwards in your response.
kmichaels
How an armed pirate holding a hostage is dealt with, is completely DIFFERENT than how an unarmed prisoner is treated. The first you use the force needed to save the hostage if possible.
The second are subject to the INTERNATIONAL treaties the US has agreed to with every other major nation. The torturing of prisoners makes US less noble as a people, it also endangers OUR prisoners who are then tortured.
Well, Jon. The fish of the seas never killed Americans at pearl Harbour. Why should they be bomed for the agregious act of the Japanese people?
Get a brain!
The fact that at least 70% of the US military declares themselves as conservative has been proven in poll after poll after poll. The rest are moderates, with maybe 1% liberals. This is an obvious fact. And if anyone were prone to sticking things in their a$$ and or pulling things from one’s a$$ it would have to be good ole mark. You see, mark is constantly harping on the goodness of his gayness. So not only are his political views q-ueer, so is he.
kmichaels again NO link to back up your BOGUS claim…this is like arguing with CHILDREN.
Jon, this is the difference between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives believe that people who commit crimes should pay. You liberals think that those who cannot protest should pay. Leave the fish alone and make those who commit crimes pay.
kmichaels
TWO Supreme Court rulings have stated a woman has the RIGHT to govern her own body, and NO restriction what so ever can tell a woman in her first trimester what she can and can’t do.
The fetus is UNABLE TO SURVIVE outside her body, so you really have no choice. The woman could suicide and end BOTH lives. SHe could travel outside the country to countries which allow unlimited abortions if she has the money.
YOU will NEVER end abortions…..NEVER!
move on
kmichaels
YOU make a claim, YOU have the responsibility to back it up, if you CAN’T…then it’s my responsibility to LAUGH at your pitiful LIES.
get with the program…cupcake, or go sit at the kiddies table.
Why leftist views of waterboarding come as no surprise.
1) Leftists believe that killing unborn babies is an issue of privacy. Somehow they believe that if you kill a child in a room, then you are evil but if you kill a child in a womb, then you are just exercising choice.
2) Leftists insist that you dont kill known serial killers. This is somehow supposed to reflect their moral high ground. However, it is ok to drill the brains out of nearly born human babies since this is simply a private matter and something about female reproductive rights.
3) It is ok for Obama to put bullets in the heads of teenage pirates because, as they say, this is a different issue. But letting water up the noses of three know terrorists that killed 3000 Americans is not a different issue. Apparently that is a clear cut case of evil torture.
4) Obviously, leftists dont understand justice or morality one wit. What they are left with is to pretend that they are moral people and that anyone that believes in God must be a racist and must harbor all sorts of evil thoughts and desires.
mark, you want a link showing the percentage of military being conservative you are more than welcome to look it up on this thing called the internet. I have played that game before and showed all sorts of links then arsewipes like mark will simply refute them and or deny them. If you want to show that less than 70 percent of the US military are conservatives then by all means mark, prove your claim. Or are you one of those hypocritical little creeps that cant use your own sense of rules on yourself? Go ahead, marky, prove me wrong.
So, were the Japanese war criminals for bombing Pearl Harbor without letting us know they were coming first?
Here is marks proof that Abortion is moral … I know, I laughed in his face too.
1) TWO Supreme Court rulings have stated a woman has the RIGHT to govern her own body,
See, if some supreme court judge equates abortion to privacy then it must be moral. Again, this is how sick and perverted sad mark is on issues. He has to run to some authority to tell him that killing babies is just an issue of privacy.
Scientifically, a fetus is not part of a womans body. It is a separate being with separate and unique DNA.
mark lame excuse 2)
The fetus is UNABLE TO SURVIVE outside her body, so you really have no choice.
Answer. Unnattended children up to the age of four cannot survive outside of the body without the aid of an older human being. So I guess they can be murdered in privacy since idiots like mark base it on survival rates.
idiot mark comment 3) The woman could suicide and end BOTH lives.
Answer. A female could set off an atomic bomb and end millions of lives. See. That proves that abortions are moral.
Yep, mark truly is a retarded idiot child.
dcgirl
It’s ALWAYS those who win a war who defines who were the war criminals afterwards.
Are you new to the concept of HISTORY?
Japan had threatened Roosevelt they would attack prior to the bombing, and that was their declaring war on the US. I don’t excuse the attack, my great uncle on my father’s side, is stil entombed in the ships the Japanese sank. My mother’s side lost two of her uncles in the Pacific war.
I think the Nurenburg Trials were much clearer of who commited a war crime.
Using TWO Supreme Court cases IS STATING THE LAWS of our Country…you know what a law is sweetie?
As a man I will NEVER face this decision in MY body, being a gay man I will never have a pregnant spouse. I choose to support women making this decision in THEIR bodies with THEIR doctors. NO woman who is raped, should be forced to carry the spawn of the man who raped her if she decides NOT to. NO girl who is victimized with incest of an older relative should be FORCED against her wishes to carry that pregnancy to term. NO woman need ever choose to feed her existing children or continue a pregnancy she can’t afford. No woman need ever carry a fetus with horrible birth defects, which may not even be able to survive after the birth.
Your unattended child up to 4yo could be raised by ANY adult or institution the court decides.
YOU won’t ever change my feelings about abortion and reproductive choice…I lobbied and helped win the Right to safe legal abortions in MN…BEFORE Roe vs. Wade.
Some universals about warfare. Spies are legally shot. Killing 3000 of any countries peoples without warning or not part of an existing war is an act of war and whoever did it is worthy of death as far as the country that got attacked is concerned. Since most of us here are Americans then we can morally conclude that these three terrorists were worthy of death. Adding a few stress blisters on their lips with waterboarding is the least of my worries, again, as a faithful American.
Hmmm, seems that mark failed to provide a link showing that less than 70% of the average US military is conservative. I guess he realized that he was just wrong and is now quivering like a little school girl.
Well, not surprisingly, since Democrats were also complaining at how stupid Stewart was for calling Truman a war criminal, he has decided to apologize for his comments. Breitbart has a link to the new video. For mark, you can use the internet to look it up, silly blowhard that you are. Now here is the reason it did not fly well with Democrats. Harry Truman turns out to be a Democrat. I am sure that in Stewarts tiny brain he was thinking Truman was a Republican and everyone knows that it is ok to call Bush a war Criminal and or some other Republican a war criminal but of course, it will never do to call a Democrat a war criminal. So, Stewart, recognizing his political affiliation error quickly apologized and twisted the decision to nuke Japan twice into something well, enchanting and wonderful.
Apparently mark feels the necessity to have a link backing up my claims so I will request the same for him.
1) mark claims Stewart obviously knows that Truman was a Democrat.
mark, please provide a link proving your claim. Come on now, coward.
2) mark: I would wager 85% of Daily Show audience doesn’t know much about Truman,
I wager that the Daily show does not know much about anything. But again, please provide a link about your 85% claim. Or else, buddy, you must face the wrath of your own idiotic condemnation about links.
3) mark: so it wasn’t audience reaction forcing Stewert to admit his mistake,
Ahem, idiot mark, he only recanted after the word got out in the press, you rube. At that point he realized that calling a Democrat a war criminal does not fly well with your idiotic relativistic leftists.
kmichael
3) is WRONG. “your aborted child could be raised by any adult”
The 4 week fetus removed from the biological mother….can’t survive outside her body, and NO medical procedure can save that fetus outside HER BODY.
NO WOMAN is being forced to choose to abort…EVER.
kmichaels
I’ll….speak….real….slow…so…you………understand
The person making a claim has to prove the claim.
You don’t make a claim, and say prove me wrong, or go prove a negative.
see DEBATE….1-001
still room at the kiddie table…sweetie
@ my 1:12 post it CLEARLY states “prove YOUR claim”, I made NO claim, I called BULLSH*T on your claim.
forget the kiddie table, this calls for a crib.
mark continues to dig himself into a larger hole …
His rationale for killing unborn babies continues
1) The law allows it. Sort of like slavery was allowed by US law earlier. So see, slavery must be moral. Sorry but mark has a hard time understanding moral issues, so he headfakes and is now discussing law.
2) mark again, so very proud of it, states that he is a gay man so he will never have to worry about it. Thanks mark, we need to hear every damn post that you are gay. Apparently that means something about whether abortion is moral.
3) mark says he supports women making their decisions with their doctors. Well, good for mark. Women and their doctors must always make moral decisions. Apparently if you decide in private then you can get away with murder. Especially if an md agrees with you. And md mind you that is making money off of it.
4) Your unattended child up to 4yo could be raised by ANY adult or institution the court decides. And your aborted child could also be raised by any adult if the mother lets it live. Somehow I miss your strange twisted sense of logic mark. Thank goodness.
5) YOU won’t ever change my feelings about abortion and reproductive choice.
I dont need to. I also could not change Hitlers choice about murdering jews. But again, the issue was leftist lack of morals and you claiming that you are solid and for sure going to retain your lack of morals just proves my point, you retarded rube.
kmichaels
HOW DEMENTED, Jon Stewert is VERY informed on History of this country…of course he KNEW Truman was a Democrat…duh!
I would wager 85% of Daily Show audience doesn’t know much about Truman, so it wasn’t audience reaction forcing Stewert to admit his mistake, he said he thought about it and decided to recant the remark.
THAT’S what adults do when the make a mistake.
mark, I will speak slow so that your retarded self can understand.
You
made
the
claim
that
military
were not
mostly
conservative
So back up your claim with some links you pathetic hypocrite.
kmichaels….cupcake
EVERY person reading this thread, knows BASIC rules of debate, whether they agree or disagree with my positions. SO YOU LOSE, by not knowing anything about debate.
What is Stewarts real name?
glad to see stewart go off the deep end and join the BOzo brigade and being promoted to general
stewart make a good general of the America haters corp.
I am loving the nuts really coming out of the closet
It is a good thing that the rinos are being run off as it wont be long for the Real Americans to be on the outside
I did not think that the adults would be back in power for a few years, but with the radicals really stepping it up – it wont take long for conservatives to be called on to bring freedom and prosperity back to America
duncan
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Typical leftist crap. Oh noooo… we doonn’t dooo thaat… Yeah until someone is about to kill one of your own. If ol’ J. Stew’s wife or children were being threatened and the police had someone with info that could save them; well ol’ J. Stew would be screaming “GET THE WATERBOARD UNDER THIS BASTARD AND SAVE MY FAMILY” If you think we should only “torture” based on the gun against head theory: then you support “torture”! Go away liberals and leave the war against islamic murderers to the grown ups!
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Hypocrite>>
By bombings, do you mean the one where Isreal warned they would attack if the peace agreement was broken? you mean the one AFTER hamas willingly broke the cease fire by firing a rocket and didn’t give their community first thought when they KNEW it would lead to an attack?
By the way, it led to about $1b in aid from their neighbors. But I bet that was NEVER thought of before they baited Isreal. No way, it’s just a coincidence that they get funding after getting leveled. Right?
Sure. You aren’t necessarily an anti-semite based on a comment but I find it odd that lefties like you refuse to get angry over bombings elsewhere, esp. when they include white dead Americans.
Hrm, interesting.
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Everyone has an opinion, but you mean to tell me it’s news when a comedian who won’t even use his real last name second guesses a president (Truman) who ended the war and probably saved 1 Million people (and countless offspring – myself included) by dropping the bomb nd thereby avoiding having to invade Japan?
What a little narcissitic insect this guy is.
Stopping watching his show, please.