>>What about Japanese lives?... Since the ratio of Japanese to American combat fatalities ran about four to one, a mainland invasion could have resulted in millions of Japanese deaths--and that's not counting civilians....
Don't believe the numbers. Remember, people are claiming 100,000 Iraqi civilians are dead.
Don't believe the conservatives who have a "humanistic manifesto" about the bomb.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were crimes against humanity......
You sit fat, dumb and safe in your comfortable little seat, separated by 60 years from the worst war in history, and make such a sactimonious and mindless pronouncement!
How does it feel to join the ranks of those referred to by Lenin as "Useful Idiots"?
There were over 100,000 Japanese civilian casualties in fire bombing raids of Tokyo. Conventional weapons wreaked far more casualties than those two bombs.
Had there been a viable alternative, I might agree with you. There was not, so I don't.
I disagree. Torturing and beheading people, starting wars to enslave other countries, and fanaticism to the point where people would rather jump off a cliff than accept that they are human beings with faults like everyone else is not humanity. Hence, the bombs are the opposite of what you are saying. I just don't understand how you can be precisely 180 degrees away from reality. Must take a lot of effort.
The Rape of Nanking was a crime against humanity.
The nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a one-two knockout punch to the regime that had brought so much death and suffering to the world.
The bombs forced the Japanese to realize they were beaten, so using them shortened the war. America was determined to win and was preparing to invade. If you'd understood anything about the island campaign you'd know that it was merciless and bloody, and that invading the Japanese mainland would have been the same slaughter on a huge scale. There would have been millions of casualties, the great majority of them on the Japanese side.
My father was on Okinawa. He expected to go to Japan next. Thank God we had the bomb.
As the grandson of a Pacific War Veteran, let me be the first to say: you're an [expletive deleted] idiot.
"Hiroshima and Nagasaki were crimes against humanity"
I have talked to men who were assigned to be in the first wave of infantry & I will repeat their most polite reply to those who claim as you do . H*RSE SH*T!!! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE F*CK YOUR TALKING ABOUT LITTLE BOY.
I remember where I was and how I felt when we received confirmation that we had used the A-bombs -- and that they had worked.
I was right across the road from the main gate of Elllington Army Air Corps Base, and I felt profound relief that the world-consuming war would soon be over -- and that all my friends and relatives would soon be home.
Where were you when we did what had to be done to convince the Japs to quit? (If you didn't live through the experience, then STHU!!!)
In my time here on FR, I have never read a statement as stated above, filled with such ignorance and cowardice.
Try that one out on a WWII Pacific veteran...make sure you count your teeth beforehand.
Go to hell....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1457450/posts?page=7#7
"Hiroshima and Nagasaki were crimes against humanity......"
You may be a nice guy IRL, but I can only echo the sentiments of other FReepers replying to your inane statement:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1457450/posts?page=10#10
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1457450/posts?page=23#23
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1457450/posts?page=32#32
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1457450/posts?page=31#31
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1457450/posts?page=74#74
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1457450/posts?page=78#78
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1457450/posts?page=105#105
and will just repeat key highlights:
"Where were you when we did what had to be done to convince the Japs to quit? (If you didn't live through the experience, then STHU!!!)"
"As the grandson of a Pacific War Veteran, let me be the first to say: you're an [expletive deleted] idiot."
You're at it again, 1stFreedom. You have a personal reason for the position you hold. You should recuse yourself if you can't be intellectually honest.
If we are attacked by Al-Queda with nukes, I hope our hestiance will not cause us to not use nukes to destroy an enemy who is bent on destroying us. Political correctness be damned.