Tom Hanks: America Wants to ‘Annihilate’ Terrorists Because ‘They’’re Different’

It is amazing at the outstanding insight and wisdom these blowjobs gain when paid millions of dollars for simply role playing. Love it when an actors work is considered "brilliant". LOLOLOLOLOLOL (and f sean penn while I'm at it)

I admire you courage, tom. JUST KIDDING!!!
Remember when you came out against Bill Clinton and after looking around and not seeing any other groovy people doing it, you backed off your statement? I thought not. It went down the memory hole after you made good by steering hard left. You gob of spit.

Tom Hanks has fallen for the lie of Multiculturalism - same as Cultural Marxism - the irrational idea that the values of all cultures are equal - a falsehood. The values of Totalitarian cultures (Marxist, Germano-Fascist, Japano-Fascist, Islamo-Fascist) are inferior to American culture as expressed in our Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and Constitution.

“On one hand, we’re supposed to “celebrate” our differences at the same time as it is racist and taboo to recognize that any differences between groups of people exist at all. This is hardly logically coherent, which is why Multiculturalism can only be enforced by totalitarian means. Perhaps it boils down to the fact there are no major differences, just minor quirks, all cute, which should be celebrated at the same time as we gradually eradicate them. We are told to treat cultural and historical identities as fashion accessories, shirts we can wear and change at will. The Multicultural society is “colorful,” an adjective normally attached to furniture or curtains. Cultures are window decorations of little or no consequence, and one might as well have one as the other. In fact, it is good to change it every now and then… We should remember that this view of culture as largely unimportant is essentially a Marxist view of the world, which has now even been adopted by segments of the political Right, united with Leftists in the belief that man is homo economicus, the economic man, the sum of his functions as worker and consumer, nothing more. Marxism doesn’t say that cultures or ideas are of absolutely no consequence, but that they are of minor or secondary importance next to structural and economic conditions… The former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovksy, who has warned that the European Union is on its way to becoming another Soviet Union, thinks that while the West won the Cold War in a military sense, we lost it in the context of ideas: “Communism might have been dead, but the communists remained in power in most of the former Warsaw bloc countries, while their Western collaborators came to power all over the world (in Europe in particular). This is nothing short of a miracle: the defeat of the Nazis in 1945 quite logically brought a shift to the Left in world politics, while a defeat of communism in 1991 brought again a shift to the Left, this time quite illogically. Bukovksy is right: We never had a thorough de-Marxification process after the Cold War, similar to the de-Nazification after WW2, and we are now paying the price for this. Many Marxist ideas have been allowed to endure and mutate, such as the notion that culture is unimportant or that it is OK to stage massive social experiments on hundreds of millions of people… But Marxist ideals of forced equality can only be enforced by a government with totalitarian powers, and will thus inevitably lead to a totalitarian society. There is no “enlightened Marxism,” and the idea that there is has ruined more lives than probably and other ideology in modern history. Marxism is an organized crime against humanity.” Fjordman

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2125/print

if that is not a rewrite of hx@. the religious japanese empire attacked us. the gov't dropped the intelligence ball and let it happen. sounds familiar. anyone who fought the japanese realized they were fine brave soldiers. a few of the fanatics beheaded american prisoners. also sounds familiar. davishart@homail.com

First Penn and now Hanks.Actors and rockers are invariably out of their depth when they express opinions on subjects outside their craft;they champion the cause of the poor "oppressed minorities" and condescendingly bemoan the great injustice;then back off to their mansions and gated communities in safe white bread neighbourhoods.Do they do this as some moronic attempt at relevance?
I'd bet London to a brick the amount of sleep lost by Hanks on this wouldn't amount to a cigarette break in duration.Old Tom spends too much time in the unreality of movie world.Don some non-prescription specs to go for that intelligent look,Tom,and choose another cause to justify your credibility in the workaday world of the great unwashed.
Must be about time for Bono to implore everyone to give their hard-earned to warlords and despots in Africa again.Haven't heard it for a week or so.

I suggest Hollywood does a remake of "Pearl Harbor", starring Hanks as Kimmel or Halsey. No, wait! Hanks could play the role of Yamamoto or Nagumo. After that, a movie based on 9/11 could be made, Hanks playing the role of one of the NY rescuers. As a historian, Hanks is a Forrest Gump.

Torture is an Godless grotesque act. How terrible, I can't imagine any of this evil in a million years. You are right Storm Rider Tom Hanks is anti-God, anti-Christ, anti-Amercan, of which makes me anti-Hanks.
"The fear of the Lord is to hate evil." Proverbs you and I agree, Storm Rider

Tom Hanks may be a good actor, but he is a stupid, immoral bastard. The Japanese during World War II (and the mass-murdering totalitarian Islamists of today) were definately different from us - they were evil. Evil is different from good. Like most radical American liberals (i.e.: Leftists, Marxists and their useful idiots), Tom Hanks has become anti-American.

"The fear of the Lord is to hate evil." Proverbs

"Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel… Unit 731 was based at the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China). Shiro Ishii, commander of Unit 731. More than ten thousand people, from which around 600 every year were provided by the Kempeitai, were subjects of the experimentation conducted by Unit 731… According to the 2002 International Symposium on the Crimes of Bacteriological Warfare, the number of people killed by the Imperial Japanese Army germ warfare and human experiments is around 580,000. According to other sources, the use of biological weapons researched in Unit 731's bioweapons and chemical weapons programs resulted in possibly as many as 200,000 deaths of military personnel and civilians in China… In 2007, Doctor Ken Yuasa testified to the Japan Times that, "I was afraid during my first vivisection, but the second time around, it was much easier. By the third time, I was willing to do it." He believes at least 1,000 people, including surgeons, were involved in vivisections over mainland China... Vivisections were performed on prisoners after infecting them with various diseases. Scientists performed invasive surgery on prisoners, removing organs to study the effects of disease on the human body. These were conducted while the patients were alive because it was feared that the decomposition process would affect the results. The infected and vivisected prisoners included men, women, children, and infants... Unit 731 and its affiliated units (Unit 1644, Unit 100, et cetera) were involved in research, development, and experimental deployment of epidemic-creating biowarfare weapons in assaults against the Chinese populace (both civilian and military) throughout World War II. Plague-infested fleas, bred in the laboratories of Unit 731 and Unit 1644, were spread by low-flying airplanes upon Chinese cities, coastal Ningbo in 1940, and Changde, Hunan Province, in 1941. This military aerial spraying killed thousands of people with bubonic plague epidemics."

Vivisections were also performed on pregnant women, sometimes impregnated by doctors, and the fetus removed.

Prisoners had limbs amputated in order to study blood loss.

Those limbs that were removed were sometimes re-attached to the opposite sides of the body.

Some prisoners' limbs were frozen and amputated, while others had limbs frozen then thawed to study the effects of the resultant untreated gangrene and rotting.

Some prisoners had their stomachs surgically removed and the esophagus reattached to the intestines.

Parts of the brain, lungs, liver, etc. were removed from some prisoners.

Human targets were used to test grenades positioned at various distances and in different positions.

Flame throwers were tested on humans.

Humans were tied to stakes and used as targets to test germ-releasing bombs, chemical weapons, and explosive bombs.

Prisoners were injected with inoculations of disease, disguised as vaccinations, to study their effects.

To study the effects of untreated venereal diseases, male and female prisoners were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea, then studied.

Prisoners were infested with fleas in order to acquire large quantities of disease-carrying fleas for the purposes of studying the viability of germ warfare[citation needed].

Plague fleas, infected clothing, and infected supplies encased in bombs were dropped on various targets. The resulting cholera, anthrax, and plague were estimated to have killed around 400,000 Chinese civilians.

Tularemia was tested on Chinese civilians.

Prisoners were subjected to other experiments such as:

Being hung upside down to see how long it would take for them to choke to death.

Having air injected into their arteries to determine the time until the onset of embolism.

Having horse urine injected into their kidneys.

Being deprived of food and water to determine the length of time until death.

Being placed into high-pressure chambers until death.

Being exposed to extreme temperatures and developing frostbite to determine how long humans could survive with such an affliction, and to determine the effects of rotting and gangrene on human flesh.

Having experiments performed upon prisoners to determine the relationship between temperature, burns, and human survival.

Being placed into centrifuges and spun until dead.

Having animal blood injected and the effects studied.

Being exposed to lethal doses of x-rays.

Having various chemical weapons tested on prisoners inside gas chambers.

Being injected with sea water to determine if it could be a substitute for saline.

Being buried alive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes

Well, finally the raw truth about the Japanese before and during WWII.

Here in Brazil almost NOBODY knows that. They only know that America bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
in 1945.

One of the most despicable episodes of WWII is also almost unheard of: The infamous MANILA MASSACRE
perpetrated by the Imperial Japanese Army in February 1945. Even friends of mine who usually read about WWII
never heard about it. In order to refresh some memories, visit the link below if you want.

http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f10/man...

After seeing that, you're gonna understand Hiroshima and Nagasaki a little bit better, with another mindset...

"Here in Brazil almost NOBODY knows that."
Unfortunately,Jewhawk,there in Japan almost NOBODY knows that.
Reprehensible,really.

Both Japanese and Turkish governments have in common their refusal to
aknowledge what they did several decades ago.

Why ?

They are afraid of lawsuits seeking financial reparation.

Dear God. The rape of Nan King was enough for me. This is beyond comprehension. Japanese & Nazis were cut from the same cloth it seems.

Just so you know what stompykitty was referring to: http://worldwar2database.com/html/china.htm

Thanks for the link. My father fought at the Battle of Saipan, so I have an ongoing interest in everything concerning World War II. Dad survived face-to-face, hand-to-hand combat - by the grace of God and his Thompson sub-machine gun. Dad walked off the battlefield a free man; his totalitarian enemy died a slave.

You're welcome. My father joined the 1st Armored Division at Salerno and served with it in Italy until the end of the war. He was attached to a self-propelled 105 battery as a medic. He took shrapnel in his ankle at the Battle of Casino that he carried for the rest of his life as they decided it was a greater risk to remove it than leave it there. It never slowed him down. It took him years to be able to talk about his experiences, but put them all on tape before he passed away. WWII was the spark that made me a get a degree in Social Studies with a major in History. I think all of us born to WWII vets were given a more direct and greater appreciation of the sacrifices they made by having them for parents.

"By July 7, the Japanese had nowhere to retreat. Saito made plans for a final suicidal banzai charge. On the fate of the remaining civilians on the island, Saito said, "There is no longer any distinction between civilians and troops. It would be better for them to join in the attack with bamboo spears than be captured." At dawn, with a group of a dozen men carrying a great red flag in the lead, the remaining able-bodied troops — about 3,000 men — charged forward in the final attack. Amazingly, behind them came the wounded, with bandaged heads, crutches, and barely armed. The Japanese surged over the American front lines, engaging both Army and Marine units. The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 105th U.S. Infantry were almost destroyed, losing 650 killed and wounded. However, the fierce resistance of these two battalions, as well as that of Headquarters Company, 105th Infantry, and elements of 3rd Battalion, 10th Marines (an artillery unit) resulted in over 4,300 Japanese killed. For their actions during the 15-hour Japanese attack, three men of the 105th Infantry were awarded the Medal of Honor - all posthumously. Numerous others fought the Japanese until they were overwhelmed by the largest Japanese Banzai attack in the Pacific War."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saipan

My dad, God rest his brave soul, was at the 105th Infantry command post when the Banzai charge hit; he was using his Thompson sub-machine gun. Dad told me that some Japanese soldiers were running by his position on either side - those that did not die in front of him. Dad said he had to be careful about firing to the side and the rear so as not to hit American soldiers by mistake. Dad only talked to me about this twice - he cried when talking about it – many American soldiers were dying at the forward outposts and around him. Dad said it was total chaos - a scene right out of Hell.

My dad, God rest his brave soul, was at the 105th Infantry command post when the Banzai charge hit; he was using his Thompson sub-machine gun. Dad told me that some Japanese soldiers were running by his position on either side - those that did not die in front of him. Dad said he had to be careful about firing to the side and the rear so as not to hit American soldiers by mistake. Dad only talked to me about this twice - he cried when talking about it – many American soldiers were dying at the forward outposts and around him. Dad said it was total chaos - a scene right out of Hell.

Unbelievable. Thanks for sharing this, Storm.

My father told me that one night he was guarding some huts at the command post for the U.S. Army 105th Infantry, 27th Division. Dad walked around the corner of a hut and came face to face with a Japanese solder that had infiltrated the command post - he was looking for food - the Japanese soldiers were out of supplies and were starving. Dad pulled his pistol and so did the enemy soldier - I wouldn't be writing this comment if dad lost the gun fight. Dad told me that skirmishes like this occurred every night - with the same outcome. Our guys would string empty ration cans onto perimeter wire over which the enemy would often trip - the noise would alert American soldiers to the incoming Japanese soldiers - a firefight would ensue.

My father's best friend was burned to death when his halftrack was hit by a panzer. His track and another had made a wrong turn and gotten lost then ran into the panzer. He was wearing a brand new pair of boots my father had lent him. The way my father told it, I could tell he was trying to make light of it just a little, but it really hurt him a lot. He was a gentle soul, the "never hurt a fly" kind, which may be why they made him a medic, but I never doubted his courage. He crossed paths with one of his brothers at Anzio. His brother was a Ranger. My uncle said he found him sitting in a tent calmly reading a book while Anzio Annie roared overhead. My father was the oldest of six boys and I saw the respect his brothers had for him, although he was the smallest of them. Another brother was a tail gunner in a B-17 in the Pacific, another guarded POWs in Virgina, one served as an MP between wars, and the youngest in a tank in Korea. They were part of what was truly the Greatest Generation, but today's all volunteer military is hard to beat too.

Wow, thanks for sharing. Yes, it truly was a great generation of men/women. My grandfather served in WW2 as well. I wish I knew more about his experience but never had the chance to talk to him about it.

The accounts given by SR, Sir W and you bring tears to the eyes. The hell these people had to endure is beyond imagining. It is wrong to say, though, that they were a special generation, if this implies they possessed super-human qualities. They were a totally normal generation, and THIS is what made them so special: just ordinary blokes who, when terrifying duty called, dug deep and refused to give quarter. Did they yearn for action? Were they filled with bloodlust? Had they dreamt of slaughtering and maiming? Not at all. They responded to their country's need, putting it above all else. They would say they simply did their job. Astonishing, isn't it? Once it was all over the survivors returned home to live normal, unremarkable lives, never boasting about their exploits as they went about their daily business of picking up the pieces and trying to raise their families. God knows what horrors they re-lived when they were alone and found time to contemplate, and God knows how they remained sane when the hideousness of old battles surfaced in their dreams. Just normal, everyday blokes nobody would look at twice. The men who led them are household names, but we will never know the names of the illustrious ones who roasted in the furnace of total war and fought like tigers. A country that can produce such people without resorting to martial nonsense or religious fanaticism as staples of daily existence is to be feared. Yes, world: be afraid of such normal blokes.

Yes Beej how fortunate we baby boomers are not to be involved in such horror.
Everyday I read of some old soldier, recently deceased; who's wartime exploits might have been the subject of some action film.(not forgetting their comrades who did not survive)
We owe these people our existence;and we are merely custodians of the freedom these nobles fought for.
It makes my blood boil when leftist scum, employed in government, seem happy to surrender such freedom to the malignancy of Islam.

Good point. They were/are normal. It's probably the cynic in us these days, knowing there are so many who simply don't understand or value or history as a civilization or in some of our cases, American history and what it meant to achieve such victory against imperialist Japan and Nazi Germany and also how important it was, however much blood had to be spilt, to defeat the evil and restore peace.

Personally, being a younger bloke (as beejj would say) than all of you, I can tell you I experience this first hand with those in my generation. With liberal academia, hollywood and mainstream media having taken over our culture and sense of who we are and turning it into this leftist, idealistic, politically correct mindset that somehow America has done nothing but plundered and imperialized countries throughout our history and that the founding documents like the Bill of Rights, Constitution and Declaration really don't mean anything anymore, is extremely saddening for me. The only hope I can gather that's been left for the younger generations, including mine and the ones after me are that parents insist on educating their children with those same values and make sure we pass them on to future generations.

I feel like a lone survivor sometimes (especially in California) in my generation. Virtually EVERYONE my age (or around my age) I come in contact or speak with don't share the same politics (generally speaking) that I do. I'm sure it's probably different in other states where it's not so damn hippy liberal everywhere. It's a lot of the reason I've gotten so close with many people online because I share those same values with, like many of you here on this site as well. It's comforting to know we, as young people, aren't alone.

I have great hope in our all-volunteer military though. I think today's warriors (Not just in the US, but in other NATO countries) are just as brave and "normal" as the guys during ww2 and I have no doubt if they were plunged into another large scale ground war like ww2, they'd absolutely live up to what we defined the ww2 generation as "special" (aka normal)

Oh man, John...you took alot of words out of my mouth. THANK you for articulating so much of what I feel.
So many of my friends are liberal, hippie, democrat types. I used to lean that way, but I collected my brains & put them back where they belong ;-) I try my best to tactfully educate them now lol!

" Another brother was a tail gunner in a B-17 in the Pacific, "

What a misfortune...having to face Nishizawa and Sakai's ZEROES !
The tail gunner was usually the first crewman to die during an attack at 6 O'clock.

I've read Sakai's book and he described how tough the B-17s were to shoot down...
often they'd have to spent ALL their ammo to put a Flying Fortress down.

The Japanese Mitsubishi "Betty" was MUCH easier to shoot down, due its
lack of self-sealant fuel tanks, adequate defensive firepower and armor, all featured on the B-17s.

My uncle the tail gunner still lives, as does the tanker in Korea, my father and the others have passed on, having survived the war, they still meet the same fate that awaits us all. C'est la vie.

All our planes were built tough, but it was the skill and courage of our pilots that usually made the difference. As the war wore on, the attrition on the Japanese pilots began to tell until the Marianas' Turkey Shoot showed how great the the difference had become.

I want to thank you also! It's always emotional to hear stories of our WW2 soldiers. Such a different time, such a different mind set. I respect them all. They all have a place in my heart, as my father is a Vietnam vet & my husband was in the first wave into Afghanistan & Iraq. Hooah!

" as my father is a Vietnam vet & my husband was in the first wave into Afghanistan & Iraq. "

God bless and protect them both. What a patriotic family you've got, Stompykitty !!
That's THE America people admires, the one who fights for what is right, not the one who APOLOGIZES for it...

Aww thanks you guys. :)) I really feel lucky to learn first hand about what they've each been through. Some amazing experiences between the 2 of them.
I get REALLY hacked off when somebody like Watada pops up refusing to be deployed into an "illegal & immoral war" >:( And then Hassan not wanting to be deployed. Makes me want to scream at the top of my lungs: YOU signed the contract!! You don't get to include stipulations to your service, idjit!
We were in Hawaii when Watada was creating his drama. Some people (NOT many) there were holding signs supporting him on bridges over the highways. Oh my gosh I wanted to knock them right off the bridge. Amazing too, being that O'ahu has every single branch of US military there. Those sign holders were either brave or foolish.

I was a Nam era navy vet, meaning I saw no action, but did my bit. Bless you and your husband and thank you for your voluntary service.

My dad didn't see alot of action, but he had a cool job working with the scout dogs :) He's got some movies on 8mm that I can't wait to check out.(I inherited a projector from my mom a few years ago!)

SirWilhelm, the japs were losing more pilots than they could properly train.

Their engines' horsepower output couldn't match their American counterparts.
The quality of the American fuel also couldn't be equaled by the Japanese.
The quantity of fuel available for the Americans couldn't be compared to what the japs were receiving.
American Navy and Marine Corps' pilots in 1944 / 1945 were SUPERB, with SUPERB
aircraft such as the Corsair and Hellcat.

The fact is that the japs put in their mouths a lot more than they could chew.
And they knew that.

Brazilian troops fought in Italy as well, but with the American Fifth Army,
under General Mark Clark ( not very popular in Britain).

Extremely well-trained, well-hidden German machine guns wrecked our frozen soldiers,
and killed more than mortar and howitzer's rounds.

My father accompanied a platoon sized patrol on a night raid on a German occupied Italian farmhouse. While he and the lieutenant in command crouched behind a stone wall, the Germans somehow detected the patrol's presence and opened fire. The LT stood and began to wave the men forward. As he brought his hand forward, a German MG shot the fingers off it. My father had to bandage his wounds. Despite losing the element of surprise, they were able to capture a German for intelligence purposes, but it was one experience of many that stood out in my father's mind. Our troops respected the German MG so much it became the model for our M60, now in it's 4th incarnation.

Not too long ago I watched a special on the military channel about the
Battle of Saipan. What an amazing story. The film footage they uncovered
from the battle was incredible.

John, I strongly recommend this Blu-Ray : " WWII in HD "

http://www.amazon.com/WWII-HD-Blu-ray-Rob-Lowe/...

I've ordered one copy already. I've got a bunch of WWII-related documentaries, newsreels and movies
on DVD and books. I simply love the subject.

I watched the whole thing when it aired on History channel! Incredible
series and definitely worth the buy.

Stompykitty, as the Japanese began their atrocities very well before the Nazis, my guess is that
the Japs were the teachers and the Nazis their pupils.

The Japanese Army RAPED hundreds of thousands of Korean and Chinese women before and
during WWII. Please, don't feel "guilty" about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for it was a well-deserved
payback.
No American should EVER apologize for that.

Oh no, I will never apologize for Hiroshima or Nagasaki! In fact, every time I run across someone who wants to point it out in a "bad America" way, I let 'em have it. It was a terrible, terrible thing to have to happen. If you haven't already, watch "White Light, Black Rain". Amazing documentary. I like that near the end, survivors talk about their treatment by the government & fellow countrymen. They know FULL well their government should take care of them because they brought it on their people.

Hear hear, Stompy. I have never heard a sensible argument as to why America should not have used the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Never. Don't people realise how many Japanese lives were saved by their use (not that I care a flying bollock about the little bastards)?

Thank you, SR. Is there any wonder I refuse ever to buy - knowingly - Japanese goods? (There's also the whaling issue, of course.)

Hanks is NOT a good actor. De Niro and Pacino are good actors.

I like Tom Hanks the actor but even better as a film maker. Band of Bros, and especially that recent HBO series, John Adams. That was REALLY good and I highly recommend you guys watch it.

I loathe his politics though.

Me too also. I like his acting. Forrest Gump is a classic if there ever was one. He's PLAYED combat and never been in the dill though, but I was. When it comes to war (and any idiot that doesn't think we're in one is beyond stupid), I prefer General Patton's thoughts: "The purpose of combat is to make the other son-of-a-bitch die for HIS country". Not only do I advocate killing every single terrorist we can, I also advocate burning down and destroying each and every site, country, town or villiage that supports them. I'd even stomp the damn goldfish. I know that makes me seem a bit leftist (of Gengis Khan), but that's the way I see it.