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To: mazda77; DuncanWaring
Admiral William D. Leahy

"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons.

33 posted on 08/06/2012 2:45:49 PM PDT by moonshot925
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To: moonshot925
The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons.

Could have said that about the Japanese forces on Iwo and Okinawa, too.

Didn't turn out that way.

Given the ferocity of resistance at those two islands, it doesn't make any sense that they would just roll over and surrender a couple of months later.

Even after seeing Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuked, there was still an attempted coup with a goal of preventing a surrender.

37 posted on 08/06/2012 3:53:39 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: moonshot925

Gen. Curtis LeMay, commander of the 20th Air Force, which actually carried-out the bombing of Japan:

(quoting from memory, not having my copy of Mission With LeMay handy) “It might, just might have been possible to starve Japan out of the war with bombing and mining. Just might.”

He had no regrets on dropping the bombs.


42 posted on 08/06/2012 5:02:57 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: moonshot925

Non Sequitur aka Drennan Whyte, aka Kstater, aka SOJOCo.


44 posted on 08/06/2012 5:12:49 PM PDT by mojitojoe (American by birth. Southern by the grace of God. Conservative by reason and logic.)
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46 posted on 08/13/2012 8:34:38 AM PDT by mazda77 ("Defeating the Totalitarian Lie" By: Hilmar von Campe. Everybody should read it.)
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