His answers are not bad or off base. You have to listen to what he is saying. BTW, the Japs were FAR more racist if we are calling pots and kettles black here. The Japs thought (and stil think) they are superior.
Hanks at least measures his response with “I’m an actor” qualifier, something Sean Penn never does.
Blade Runner
Anyone read “War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War” by John Dower? Or thumbed through copies of Life magazine (1941 to 1945) paying close attention to the ads? Ipana toothpaste, for example, published an ad showing the caricature of a GI knocking the teeth out of a Jap portrayed as a monkey. Americans were all for kicking some major ass back then. Today, we are populated by an abundance of pussies.
hmmmm. yeah, i didn’t really come away from that thinking he was attacking anything. he’s at least truthful about his position, and doesn’t overstate his qualifications. the only place he stumbled was towards the end, where i think he was getting annoyed by being asked the same question, and avoids entirely the reality that this is a religious war on the part of al qaeda and the taliban.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof
Pat: You’re a better man than I! I couldn’t make it through more than a third of the video before I’d heard enough.
Odin2012
All actors are nothing but tools. Like little monkies, they’re only purpose is to entertain us.
So Tom…. shut up and dance you little monkey… dance.
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Hey Tom I thought we fought the “japs” because they attacked us but according to your lib mentalism we went to war and fought them because we hated Japanese people. Riiiiggghhhttt! What a tool! I don’t think I could ever pay to see a film of his again. The well of liberalism is deep and intoxicating.
nick
I WOULD LIKE HIM TO WATCH ONE OF HIS BEST FRIENDS BE BLOWN TO PIECES RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM BY ” THE PEOPLE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF OCEAN” AND SEE IF HE DOESNT HAVE ANY HATRED TOWARDS THEM. THEY ARE ALL DOUCHBAGS TO ME. ITS TO BAD THAT I LIKE MOVIES. WISH I DIDNT.
billy_bonney
what pisses me off is faggots like this with their stupid convoluted opinion of history, yet this assholes ends up playing the patriotic war hero in some movie.
Billy
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Too much time on an island with a soccer ball.
ThatAintRight
rightangle
I miss Lieutenant Dan…
personally, I think Tom put it in such a way that you risk “taking the bait” if you react too strongly to any charge of racism- the driver behind today’s liberal thought process. If only we had more “enlightened” men back in ’41- watch out Japs, for the Hanks are coming! lol.
But since he is tight with emperor obama, makes sense that this new project is simply called “The Pacific.” What ever happened to VICTORY in the Pacific? I know, in obama’s mind victory equals losing.
TerryTate
Muddled answer on Afghanistan.
If you recall he said “nothing new under the sun”.
That means they are the same.
Then he backtracks.
Stand behind what you say, or don’t say them at all.
Pure B.S.
And this man doesn’t like to be questioned and held accountable for his words/actions, even while holding others accountable for theirs.
David
Racism? I am so fucking sick and tired of that bullshit arguement. Were we fighting the nazis because of racism? Thge hatred part I get. I hate the islamic fundamentalist terrorists because of what they did on 9/11/2001. I hated the Japanese for what they did at Pearl. Kill ‘em all? That I get. So let’s do it.
Pancake
If you throw a rock through my front window and you see me storming up to your door you may be terrorized but am I a terrorist?
PatriotofPast
I think Mr. Hanks should just SHUT THE FUCK UP!
I know GOOD Men who were in the Pacific, Marines.
They would ask Mr Hanks if he had ever heard of Battann? Or one better Mr. Hanks, go to China and ASK them How RACIST the Japannese were.
One good friend of mine was a “Gopher”… He would belly up to the tunnels on the Beach and clean them out. I LEARNED alot from Virgil, God Rest His Soul.
RetAF
Well, I paid for the Band of Brothers DVD set which is excellent – and I had a lot of respect for him “despite his liberal views.
I’ll make sure I download “Pacific” though, I’m sure he doesn’t mind a little redistribution
RetAF
BTW, this may have been a publicity stunt to boost ratings, see how everyone is talking about it?
Jonas Harbaugh
Only when one learns real history can a proper assessment of why we are fighting wars be made. All war since the American Revolution have been caused intentionally by the global banking elite to protect their interest in creating a one world government. They usually serve a dual purpose by distracting the masses from a true crises like the great depression. Part of the elite’s agenda is to have a master race with a greatly reduced population, wars conveniently achieve population reduction and since WWII, always two sides of different color. This is critical for moral building at home because it’s easy to go and cheer your troops on when the other side can be ridiculed racially. Can you imagine if we just went off to fight a bunch of scandinavians? What kind of great rift would come between us if they aren’t rag heads or some other racially inferior people (inferiority is not my opinion, just what motivates the masses against a people very effectively) I hope the people of the west start waking up to these facts and demand we bring all troops home soon. 911 WAS NOT 19 terrorists, it was globalists stirring the pot.
alot of the conspiricies about the Rothschild family were created by the Nazi party to stir the anti-semitic pot in the 1930′s
Jonas Harbaugh
read the bibliographies, This goes back a lot further than the NAZI party. That recent event was most likely to gain sympathy for Jews so they could never be exploited again and get away with anything they want (just an opinion, not just mine though). Now I am not labeling all Jews by any right, just the ones that are in the bloodline of the Rothschild family. They control the central banks of the world, including the Federal Reserve. Most of this is fact with easily traceable documentation. Before the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, those countries did not have central banks, now they do. People have been writing about this globalist takeover for hundreds of years and it is still moving forward today.