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To: hildy123

The author makes many good points

It's just sad that we need to go through these gyrations every year to answer the revisionists. The decision was made based on the cirumatsances and intelligence available at the time.

Only a liberal can second guess things for 60 years and try to "wish" the upleasantness away


3 posted on 08/08/2005 5:08:31 AM PDT by 5Madman2 (There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber)
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To: 5Madman2

I don't think it's about 'wishing unpleasantness away'. It's about making sure that the US never again has the certainty and fortitude to defeat an enemy.


4 posted on 08/08/2005 5:10:36 AM PDT by IncPen (There's nothing that a liberal can't improve using your money...)
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To: 5Madman2
The decision was made based on the cirumatsances and intelligence available at the time.

Drop the mealy-mouthed "at the time" BS. What subsequent information, available now and not then, indicates otherwise? Some things are just right, and don't need to be second guessed. This is one of those things.

The Japanese would have reached a negotiated settlement on December 8, 1941. We just would not have liked the terms.

17 posted on 08/08/2005 5:20:02 AM PDT by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: 5Madman2
The decision was made based on the circumstances and intelligence available at the time.

History repeats.........

31 posted on 08/08/2005 5:43:33 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: 5Madman2
Only a liberal can second guess things for 60 years and try to "wish" the upleasantness away.

If only they were that benign. They aren't trying to wish away the past. They are trying to rewrite the past to affect the present and future.

116 posted on 08/09/2005 5:47:26 AM PDT by Samwise ("You have the nerve to say that terrorism is caused by resisting it?")
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