“You did the right thing. You know the Japanese attitude at that time, how fanatic they were, they’d die for the Emperor...Every man, woman, and child would have resisted that invasion with sticks and stones if necessary...Can you imagine what a slaughter it would be to invade Japan? It would have been terrible. The Japanese people know more about it than the American public will ever know.”
Japanese pilot Mitsuo Fuchida in a conversation with Paul Tibbets.
Taken from Flyboys by James Bradley
Can anyone imagine Truman saying to the American public(after approximately one hundred thousand American Marine, sailors, and army men had died taking the main islands with an additional one million dead Japanese civilians and military) that “well we did have an atomic bomb that would have ended things rather quickly, but we chose to be “humane”? Truman would probabaly have been lynched...and would have deserved it.