[abb]

To get your blood up this morning...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20070808/cm_uc_crrscx/op_173502

A Solemn Nuclear Anniversary Robert Scheer
Wed Aug 8, 3:00 AM ET

During a week of mayhem in Iraq, in which terrorists have rightly been condemned for targeting schoolchildren, it is sobering to recall that this week is also the 62nd anniversary of a U.S. attack that deliberately took the lives of thousands of children on their way to school in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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[mainepatsfan]

In the minds of the left it would have been better if far more Japanese school children had been killed by conventional means rather than a smaller number by the atomic bombs.

[gridlock]

How can somebody as stupid as Robert Scheer remember to breathe in and out, day in and day out?

[tanknetter]

During a week of mayhem in Iraq, in which terrorists have rightly been condemned for targeting schoolchildren, it is sobering to recall that this week is also the 62nd anniversary of a U.S. attack that deliberately took the lives of thousands of children on their way to school in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

What a maroon. IIRC from "Hiroshima" and other books the children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't on their way to school but to build firebreaks and defensive military structures.

The Japanese could have done what the Brits did during the Blitz and sent their children out of the cities (which were being firebombed well prior to the atomic attacks) to safety. Instead, children kept in the cities were used as laborers on military projects - making them legitimate military targets. The ONLY ones responsible for their deaths were the military and civillian leadership in Japan.

[Bulldawg Fan]

Harry Truman: Well done!

[weegee]

62nd anniversary of a U.S. attack that deliberately took the lives of thousands of children on their way to school in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Almost makes you forget that they were in the middle of an imperialistic war that they declared against the US, China, and other nations, partnered with Nazi Germany.

And what of the German scientists who were working on their own nuclear device? Weren't some at work in Japan after the fall of Nazi Germany?

"So innocent". I don't think so.

[RJS1950]

Shall we resurrect the Japanese army film footage of the rape of Nanking with brave Japanese soldiers bayonetting babies and shooting everyone in sight? That one incident killed over 200,000 chinese. The Japanese civilian population completely and mindlessly supported the war efforts and they received the consideration they were due when the bombs were dropped and the casualties included them—NONE.