Just when I thought it was going to be a boring news day, what with the Dems 100 day legislative blitz done with (snicker) and them regrouping for another round of "cut and run" legislation, I catch this story via Michelle Malkin
A federal commission recommended yesterday that the U.S. government provide $125 million to eligible Guam residents as further compensation for their suffering during the Japanese occupation of the territory during World War II.
In its report to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, the Guam War Claims Review Commission said the compensation was to acknowledge the suffering and loyalty of Guamanians during the occupation.
"The review commission finds that the Japanese occupation of Guam was particularly cruel, oppressive and brutal, and that the loyalty and steadfastness shown by the people of Guam in the face of the atrocities and barbarism inflicted on them by their Japanese occupiers was all the more extraordinary in the circumstances in which they were forced to live," the report states.
Huwhat? I’d like to think this is a joke, but progressives have no sense of humor. They really are proposing that Americans pay for the suffering imposed on Guamians (?) by the Japanese.
Leo at Blogs for Bush
Where is Japan in this equation? Why aren’t they paying? Haven’t Americans sacrificed enough, spilling our blood and in the process wiping out our own future generations of what would be the sons and daughters of those killed trying to liberate the Guamanians?
Again I ask: What have the democrats been smoking!?!
This could be the first time in recorded history that a government has seriously considered paying reparations for another country’s war crimes…
You can view the Bill here, and, as Eric at Red State writes
You can stop this madness. You can call your Congressman and tell him to vote against this bill. Call right now and tell your Congressman to oppose H.R. 1595. Call 202-224-3121. Fight this resolution.
I would, but mine is Brad Miller, major league leftists, and sure to buy in to the Apology Syndrome.
This is what you get from that "we are going to fix everything" Democrat congress. Their other legislation has imploded, going nowhere. Has anything of consequence actually reached President Bush’s desk other then their pull out of Iraq funding bill? We are fast approaching 4 months of Dem control.
Next up, reparations for descendents of the Japanese pilots killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
