[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

It was a horrible thing to have to do. But it was the lesser of two evils. Given that more than 1,000,000 American casualties alone were prevented, dropping nukes on Japan was, in the big picture, a thing of beauty and great compassion.

[CWOJackson]

The sad things is most people who say it was a mistake seem to know nothing about what happened on Okinawa. Many civilians died attacking our troops, with everything from mines to simply bamboo spears.

And it wasn't just the combatants who died needlessly. Whole villages of civilians killed themselves by jumping into the ocean to avoid being made slaves by our Army...because that's what their government had told them would happen.

If we had had to invade Japan millions of civilians would have died needlessly.

Where the bombs necessary? Japan didn't surrender after the first one was dropped.