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To: spanalot
Your suggestion that Ike was a traitor is ludicrous, of course. Ike was a soldier in W.W.II, and did what he was told. Strategic decisions such as the post-war shape of Europe were decided at the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin level.

And, least we forget:
The number of Americans who died in the war was 300-400 thousand, depending on how you count.
The number of Brits was about the same, though fewer soldiers and 60,000 civilians killed by German bombings.
The number of Soviets who died is around 20 million, half of them civilians.

So, Roosevelt was the senior partner in the western alliance, in terms of US treasure and war materials supplied to the others.
But Stalin was the first partner in terms of blood lost, and taken.
And in war, blood counts for something.
So Stalin got most of what he wanted from Roosevelt in terms of the post-war.

Finally, on the number and timing of US nukes after Nagasaki, here's what Wikipedia says:

“The United States expected to have another atomic bomb ready for use in the third week of August, with three more in September and a further three in October.[45] On August 10, Major General Leslie Groves, military director of the Manhattan Project, sent a memorandum to General of the Army George Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, in which he wrote that “the next bomb . . should be ready for delivery on the first suitable weather after 17 or 18 August.””

69 posted on 03/16/2008 3:05:32 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK

“Ike was a soldier in W.W.II, and did what he was told”

he also prolonged the war , refusing german offers to surrender.

Keep spouting the Kremlin party line. We all might be in Syria next year because of the refusal to see how much the Russians have been able to infiltrate and deceive.


73 posted on 03/16/2008 3:14:50 PM PDT by spanalot
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