[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.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

The fact that two bombs made evil Japs into good Japs--in quick order--makes their use even more awesomely beautiful. We should take heed of the lesson to be learned here and prosecute the war on Islamofascism as strongly as practicable. For example, we should have leveled Fallujah--after dropping leaflets with a warning to evacuate within 48 hours or become part of the new landscape, the same type of warning we gave to the Japs long before we nuked them.

Given that I had a grandfather and father in the Navy in 1945, I'm quite thankful that Truman nuked a savage culture into submission. It was one of the last patriotic acts by a Democratic president in the past six decades.