You call my comments racist and bigoted, and then go on to denounce me as a "stupid, uneducated dork and a foolish ignoramus." (Ignoramous! LOL I haven't heard that in years by the way.)

Take note of the fact that I will never resort to petty, childish name calling Mr. Kim. Why? Because it is something a "stupid, uneducated dork and a foolish ignoramus" would do.

As for your claim about Nanjing, yes it was a pure military action. I don't believe that the Nanjing Massacres happened really, although there was surelly severe fights between the Japanese Imperaial Army and the Chinese Nationalist army. It has been a propaganda for both Chinese Nationalist and Communist parties. Did you know the number of victims is still and ever increasing over 50 years? This is the card for the Chineses to contempt Japan. They seem to like this card so much, so I believe they give us a *rise* in the near future again.

The main differece between Germany and Japan, the Germany couldn't compensate the nations they invaded, since there were two Germany countries before the unification. That's why they had to select to compensate individuals. Also their compensations to indviduals are limited for the Holocaust and the ethnic cleansing, mainly for Jewish. They have never compensated for their "comfort" women or "drafted" workers indivudually.

You just blindly belived what is broadcasted on Korean TV and news papers, didn't you? What I'm sneering is that this kind of typical Korean way of history reinterpretation. Check things up if you don't believe.

As for the compensations to Korean nations or the Chosun peninsula, Japan tried to make compensations not only for the occupied countries but also for the individuals. The South Korean president Pahk administration took all the money from Japan by refusing the compensation to the North Koreans and individuals. I belive you alerady know this fact; the official documents ware recently disclosed by the Roh administration. By the way, the document wasn't a secret in Japan for long years.

As for the draft of workers in the Chosun peninsula, it was also forced in the Japan mainland. Yes, the peninsula was legally a part of Japan. So, the law enforced Japanese civilians to work in militrary factories was also applicable for Koreans in the peninsula. In fact the administration of that time didn't force the draft to Koreans until 1944; before this year, most Korean workers came to Japan for economic reasons (still they coming….) I think you didn't know this neither. Again you blindly belive what is seen on Korean TV and news paper, don't you?

As for the "comfort women" or "sex slave", whatever you'd like to call, I simply say they were just prostitutes. Did you know most of those comfort women are Japanese women came from poor viledges. They were sold by their parents (a sad story). This figure was also replayed in the peninsula and Manchuria. You know the long history in the peninsula having lots of pimps gathering or kidnapping womens in local villages until very recently (even after the Korean war). Historically, it is very understandable, because the rulers of Li-regimed Korea had to send young Korean women to the Chinenese counter-parts to survive.

I do believe your official version of "text books for the Korean history" didn't tell you the truth. Do you really believe those books? Oh, surely you do, if you are *pure* Koreans.

Check all the historical issues you are arguing by reading history books written in English, Chinese, and Japanese, not in Koreans, if you dare to do so. You will be very miserable if you find the *true* history of Koreans and the Chosun peninsula. I assure you.

Seriously, yes, we have a lot of strange lefties and news papers. The big differece between Japan and Korea is that the stupid and crazy left-wing opinions are rapidly loosing the public support, many thanks to North Koreans and the Chineses in the main-land.

The Kurdish mind set after the first Gulf War was not of betrayal but they were thankful the US set up the no fly zone and brought in relief aid and Special Forces. Kurds blame Saddam and his henchmen for the massecres that happened, not the US. They never expected full military invasion from the US. The Kurds are tough people and they are willing to fight for their own independence. They don't expect anyone to do it for them and they did win their own independence from Saddam well before the 2nd Gulf War.

The Kurds today would rather be their own country then be tied down with the rest of Iraq. Kurds do not feel like Iraqis. However, if they do get independence Turkey has made it clear they will stop any Kurdish independence. Now is the US willing to go to war with Turkey over the Kurds? No, and that is why the US is working hard to integrate the Kurds into the Iraqi government.

The Kurds in the 1990's is a poor example to compare to Korea in 1905 because the Kurds did fight off Saddam and win their independence unlike Korea in 1905. The Japanese pretty much just moved in and had to deal with limited guerilla attacks in the North of the country and occassional demonstration uprisings across the country they would quickly smash. Think of the amount of Korean collaborators their must of been to colonize Korea. Even Korea's most well known President Park Chung Hee was in the Japanese military.

The Kurds in Northern Iraq would not collaborate with Saddam making any colonization of the place impossible. Saddam has to forcibly move the Kurds out of the city of Kirkuk to secure it. The Kurds overall won their freedom not because of the US but because they fought for it themselves. I don't think the same can be said for Korea in 1905.

South Korea has now modernized and has a united population that would cause any invasion of Korea to be a foolish endeavor even without US involvement.

I think an interesting arguement would be that if the US military leaves Korea and the US-ROK alliance is dissolved and Korea is attacked by North Korea or China in the future, does the US still have a responsibility to defend Korea?