Posted on 08/07/2004 7:41:33 AM PDT by em2vn
I have yet to hear any of those revisionists offer an alternative that would have resulted in fewer American or Japanese casuaties.
That's Terrific! I am going to put that in my car window, Thanks!
Truman did the right thing. Everything said contrary to that statement isn't supported by the known data.
Someone posted on another thread that everyone who was in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing and shortly after who died for any reason in later years gets added to the toll.
Favorite saying " Made in America, Tested in Japan "
There was Japan, minding its own business, when WHAM!, from out of nowhere, The nasty old U.S. drops a couple of nuclear weapons on its babies.
On March 9-10 1945 300+ B 29s attacked Tokyo with napalm fire bombs and wiped out 16 square miles of the city and approximately 100,000 died. That attack equaled the atomic bombs in lethalness.
I think we need a good ole' fashioned "time out" for picking on Japan. ;-}
I'm POSITIVE that you're right!I'm just glad that it isn't us critcizing them for having used the atomic bomb!!
Presumably it's not lost on Iran, Syria, and NK that we can do the same to them, only more so and faster.
People whose fathers entered Japan as soldiers when the war was over said Japanese citizens thanked them for freeing them from the regime. Not every Japanese was a big fan of the emperor.
My dad was with Patton's third army in Europe. After V-E day he was sent to the US to train for the invasion of JAPAN when the BOMB was dropped on HIro and Nag. He always said the BOMB probably saved his life.
I've got a bumper-sticker that depicts an atomic detonation and reads:"Built By Lazy,Illiterate Americans,Tested In Japan"!!
It should be noted that Japanese schools and history books omitted ANY mention of Pearl Harbor until sometime in the late 80s or early 90s. It was only the continued insistence of the American government that forced the Japanese to acknowledge starting the war by attacking Pearl Harbor. Most Japanese were ashamed and embarrassed at the time by their government's behavior.
Hey,look at it this way,we need a little practice!Al Quaeda is serving OUR purposes!!
That's not what happened. The Japanese were trying to surrender, only they wanted to keep the Emperor. Turns out we allowed them to keep him, anyway. So, not only were the bombs unncessary, our insistence on Unconditional Surrender is what prolonged the war and lost the lives of untold American soldiers in the Pacific theater.
Peace on you too. You were war mongers bent on dominating half of the world. What did you do to the Chinese? What did you do in Indonesia? What did you do in SE Asia? What did you do to Pearl Harbor? What did you do to troops you captured and civilians whose towns you occupied? You made Hitler look like a weenie.
How many more Japanese would have died if we had continued on with conventional weapons? To the last man, woman and child was your doctrine. You reaped what you sowed. Stop the whining.
An interesting note almost forgotten..
Immediatly after the bombing of Hiro and Nag the US hit them with conventional bombs again. Killed thousands but no one remembers.
I learned this from a tv show on Okinawa in 1968 over AFRTS. The documentary showed the war but when the A-Bomb was shown being dropped the screen went blank so as not to offend anyone.
The main problem is that these knuckleheads don't understand how "Peace"is obtained!It's not obtained by singing Kumbaya and turning the other cheek or signing on with The UN,it's obtained through VICTORY!!!
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