[Steve_Seattle]

I’ll probably get flamed for this, but a lot of the National Review conservatives - and maybe some of the Palin critics on this thread - still defend the dropping of atomic bombs on civilians during WWII, and that in my view is far more un-Christian than Palin’s lame comment about baptism. (By the way, I already know the atomic-bomb-saved thousands-of-lives argument - and reject it - so don’t bother. I also figure that Palin would also defend the use of the atomic bomb, but that is not my point, either.)

[GunRunner]

The atomic bombs were only a brief epitaph on a wide ranging bombing campaign that destroyed 50-90% of 67 Japanese cities, including the firebombing of the wooden city of Toyko.

I find your whole comment a non-sequitur to what's being discussed here.

[Mears]

What about the 1,000,000 civilians who died in Germany?

Should we have avoided bombing them too?

War is hell.

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