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Japanese Defense Chief: Atomic Bombing 'Couldn't Be Helped'
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| 6/30/2007
| AP
Posted on 06/30/2007 7:49:10 AM PDT by weef
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Japan is a victim
Unbelievable...
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posted on
06/30/2007 7:49:12 AM PDT
by
weef
To: weef
Well said Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma. A voice of reason in Japan, where too many still won’t face the truth of WWII.
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posted on
06/30/2007 7:51:36 AM PDT
by
SolidWood
(UN delenda est.)
To: weef
I think the defense minister got it right. Not the victim guy.
But most Japanese I know (when they talk about it) would agree with the defense minister.
I’m kinda dreaming of an Iranian defense minister twenty years from now saying, “Yeah, George Bush nuked us back in 2007, but it couldn’t be helped, ‘cause we were such islamonazi a$$holes back then”...
To: weef
Hey,American lives are the only lives of value in a situation like the Pacific war. he should be happy we didn’t target the Imperial Palace when we easily could have.
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posted on
06/30/2007 7:53:30 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(If there's lead in the air,there's hope.)
To: weef
Scary is what it is. Tojo and his henchmen were evil on a par with Stalin and Hitler. Let no one forget.
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posted on
06/30/2007 7:55:00 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: weef
It also saved the lives of approximately 11,000,000 Japanese. Plus over 1,000,000 Americans. And it allowed Japan to be a free country. The USSR may have decided to keep 1/2 after they entered the war if it had not ended when it did.
The winning of war means PEACE not negotiations which never have ended in peace.
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posted on
06/30/2007 7:55:06 AM PDT
by
YOUGOTIT
(The Greatest Threat to our Security is the US Senate)
To: SolidWood
Kyuma also realizes that it not only saved millions of American lives, but millions of Japanese as well. There is a reason why Japan is one of the most prosperous countries and one of our closest allies.
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posted on
06/30/2007 7:55:36 AM PDT
by
mnehring
(Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit)
To: weef
Japan went to war -they got a war - we ended it!
Nuff said.
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posted on
06/30/2007 7:56:30 AM PDT
by
AFreeBird
(Will NOT vote for Rudy. <--- notice the period)
To: weef
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posted on
06/30/2007 7:57:43 AM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: weef
"The U.S. justifies the bombings saying they saved many American lives," said Nobuo Miyake, 78, director-general of a group of victims living in Tokyo. "It's outrageous for a Japanese politician to voice such thinking.The Americans placed about as much value on Japanese lives as did Japan's military machine. If Miyake has a problem its with his own country's history.
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posted on
06/30/2007 7:58:10 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: weef
"The U.S. justifies the bombings saying they saved many American lives," said Nobuo Miyake, 78, director-general of a group of victims living in Tokyo. "It's outrageous for a Japanese politician to voice such thinking. Japan is a victim." Uh...it also saved several MILLION Japnese lives. Japnan was a victim...a victim of its own leaders and a victim of themselves for engaging in such a war of conquest.
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posted on
06/30/2007 7:58:44 AM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: SolidWood
they face the truth indirectly, they would NEVER wage war with America again.......
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posted on
06/30/2007 7:59:31 AM PDT
by
advertising guy
(If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
To: mnehrling
To: weef
Stalin was to invade the northern part of Japan. So these wonderful oriental gentlemen ought to be thankful there is not a DMZ seperating South Japan from North Japan, and NJ is home to millions of backwards, poor, hideously underfed short commies eating pine cones for fun.
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posted on
06/30/2007 8:00:05 AM PDT
by
junta
(It's Jihad stupid! It's the borders stupid! It's Political Correctness stupid!)
To: AFreeBird
They called down the thunder.
The Japs were ready to fight to the last person. They wasn't going to go down easily. The Nukes probably saved Jap lives by causing them to surrender.
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posted on
06/30/2007 8:00:44 AM PDT
by
Yorlik803
( When are we going to draw a line a say"this far and no farther")
To: weef
From The Last Great Victory: The End of World War Ii, July-August 1945, by Stanley Weintraub.
It was the afternoon of August 5, 1945. To a group of six hundred army officers assigned to the Hiroshima garrison, Professor Yoshitaka Mimura of Hiroshima Bunri University, a theoretical physicist, was explaining the scientific possibilities of new weapons which might reverse the tide of war. Japan had little Navy or Air Force left. Within months a massive invasion of the home islands seemed likely. Could you tell us, sir, a young lieutenant colonel asked, what an atomic bomb is? Is there any possibility that the bomb will be deployed by the end of this war?
Mimura chalked a rough sketch on the blackboard to illustrate the [nuclear] reactions required. Scientists at Tokyo University, he explained, have theoretically penetrated the secrets of nuclear fission. If they could apply their theories practically, an atomic bomb could be smaller than a piece of caramel candy, but, if exploded five hundred meters above a populated city, it could destroy 200,000 lives.
When can we have that bomb? Well, it is difficult to say, Mimura answered, knowing nothing of any Japanese enterprise to apply fission theory to bomb-making. But I can tell you this much: not before the end of this war.
To: weef
Japan also had an atomic bomb project. As did Germany.
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posted on
06/30/2007 8:00:47 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: weef
given the way the japanese thought, without the bombs that war would have taken a considerably higher toll on the japanese before the war would have ended
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posted on
06/30/2007 8:00:53 AM PDT
by
ckilmer
To: weef
Hey just last week they denied that the rape of Nanking happened.
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posted on
06/30/2007 8:04:09 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We go into the dark places....)
To: RightWhale
Japan also had an atomic bomb project. As did Germany.But... but... we went into those places and didn't find any WMDs! We entered WWII based on lies!!! /moonbattery
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posted on
06/30/2007 8:04:21 AM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(It's never a good time to get sucked into an evil vortex.)
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