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I vote Kefka as well. but Kefka was under the control of Golbez. So is Kim Jong Ill.

Besides that Hitler should not be considered Fascist. Military would be a Much much more accurate classification. Also, what about President Franklin Delano Rosevelt. Why isn't he on the list?



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and Hirohito should be taken off the list.



"Let justice be done though the heavens fall." - Jim Garrison

"Ask not your horse, if ye should ride into battle" - myself



Roosevelt, Churchill, Bush, Blair.



No he should not, Commando. While the US government did a stellar job of concealing it and remaking his image as a pacifist, Hirohito was very strongly involved in WW2 and very much on top of what was going on with the war. Though the US may see him as some sort of patron saint of Japan, most countries (particularly the ones that suffered greatly at the hands of the Japanese in WW2) see him as having been a war criminal. Which he was, of course, but it was far more convenient for the US to leave him alive and a figurehead than to execute him and risk turning all of Japan against the US. Politics are messy, to say the least.

If you want an in-depth look at Hirohito's life, as well as some pretty detailed accounts of his war presence, you should check out The People's Emperor by Kenneth Ruoff.  The writing style is academic (meaning a bit of a dry read), but the book is very informative.



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Ok, I will look up that book to be fair. However in my research I did not find that he willingly orchestrated events of a catastrophic nature. Also, even still I don't think his accused actions are to be wighed more heavilly than say Edi Amin or Yakubu Gowan.



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I am damn sick of people comparing George Bush to any war criminal just because the UN was against the war in Iraq. Setting the wheels of democracy and modernization in the very backwards middle east is what was needed as horrible as it is. Modern Civilization and Bacwards Societies cannot exist in the world at the same time, it's been proven over history.



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Tabuu that bastard.



I passed by this thread a couple times and each time I kept thinking, what the hell did Pete Townsend do now?

I give this thread a 9.3.



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