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To: moonshot925
Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts,...

"All the facts" probably includes "Several hundred B-29s coming over every night shoveling out several thousands of tons of fire on every city, town, village and hamlet that hadn't already been burnt to the ground".

The surviving Japanese may have said that after the war.

To capture Iwo, we had to kill 99% of the defenders.

To capture Okinawa, we had to kill 90+% of the defenders.

We're really supposed to believe the main islands of Japan would just roll over and surrender?

28 posted on 08/06/2012 2:16:08 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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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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