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To: FredZarguna

Holy Cow! Someone who actually knows history??? Very good call.

Say what you want but the Japanese attacked a military base. They could have attacked civilians. They made a military move against the US and punched us in the nose. Hard.
We retaliated by bombing schools and hospitals. Realize that they did not have zoning laws against having industrial platforms butted up next to schools and hospitals. We bombed their military industrial facilities and there were casualties.


18 posted on 05/28/2016 9:47:45 PM PDT by Snark
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To: Snark
We bombed their military industrial facilities and there were casualties.

All of which, by the way, was within the acceptable limits of warfare -- both then and now. Bataan was not. Manchuria was not. Korea was not.

0bama is an ignoramus apparently unaware of either the firebombing of Dresden or Tokyo, both of which killed more people than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nor is he apparently aware of the War Department estimate that a conventional invasion of the Japanese Home Islands would have resulted in a million US casualties, and many times that many Japanese.

We shouldn't be apologizing or talking about "moral evolution" nor the implied moral equivalence of Japanese war crimes with the lawful destruction caused by warfare that his silly -- and malicious -- misunderstanding of history requires.

He is a fool and an embarrassment, and Hillary Clinton is more of the same, with an added tincture of sleaze and corruption.

28 posted on 05/29/2016 1:03:53 AM PDT by FredZarguna (And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Fifth Avenue to be Born?)
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