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1 posted on 03/17/2008 5:00:40 PM PDT by Coleus
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I can’t even begin to imagine...


2 posted on 03/17/2008 5:04:08 PM PDT by Santa Fe_Conservative (The RINOs think that they have won but we shall see who has the last laugh in '08...)
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Ooo, I know the answer/s to this!!

“I’ll take “Bush’s fault” for $1,000, Alex!”

or

“I’ll take “All America’s Fault” for $1,000, Alex!”


3 posted on 03/17/2008 5:05:22 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom and proud Rush Conservative with no dog in the presidential race now *sigh*)
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I would like to see the second page to see if this is a hit piece or not and we are bad Americans for ending WW-II. I won’t do their dance to get there.


4 posted on 03/17/2008 5:05:37 PM PDT by Snoopers-868th
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I would have liked to read the rest of the article,
did they happen to mention that there was a WAR ON?


5 posted on 03/17/2008 5:05:48 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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while were at never agains, how's about never again the rape of Nan king, never again a Bataan death march. these and other atrocities lead up to us nuking them. If they didn't do any of this they wouldn’t have gotten nuked plain and simple. Now flame away.
6 posted on 03/17/2008 5:06:34 PM PDT by JimC214
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How does one survive a direct nuclear blast at ground zero and never suffer any lasting complications?


7 posted on 03/17/2008 5:06:37 PM PDT by MiltonFriedmanFan
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Next time, do not mess with AMERICA!


9 posted on 03/17/2008 5:07:11 PM PDT by Hunble
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Now 73, Kitagawa travels the world as part of an effort to educate people on the destructive power of nuclear weapons the philosophy of the Japanese being a master race.

There, fixed it for him.

10 posted on 03/17/2008 5:07:19 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (John McCain, the Manchurian Candidate.)
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To: Coleus; Robert A. Cook, PE
"I think that anyone who has ever been to Hiroshima, or has met a survivor and has seen the damage caused by these nuclear weapons, could never justify their use," Mitchell said. "I think it's important to spread Hiroshima's message of, 'Never again.'"

"atomic" bombs

13 posted on 03/17/2008 5:08:50 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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Do people still laugh when children are taught to duck and cover in the event of a nuclear war? Whoops, we don’t teach those drills anymore because a nuclear exchange isn’t as likely.


14 posted on 03/17/2008 5:09:37 PM PDT by Sawdring
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Here’s a description of what an invasion of Japan would have involved:

http://www.webwizpro.com/1945InvasionofJapan.html

Probably would have cost a million Americans.

And tens of millions of Japanese.


18 posted on 03/17/2008 5:11:54 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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One word response: Nanking.


21 posted on 03/17/2008 5:14:00 PM PDT by txzman (Jer 23:29)
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Japan started the war and we ended it, quite convincingly.


22 posted on 03/17/2008 5:15:17 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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I think they cheered this kind of stuff. Jap beheading an American.


23 posted on 03/17/2008 5:16:00 PM PDT by bjs1779
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'What is the most important thing for me to do?'

Become a useful idiot?

NEVER FORGET...

24 posted on 03/17/2008 5:16:37 PM PDT by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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"...man shares his memories of the atomic bomb..."

I thought this was going to be a one word article:

Dean's yell: Yeeeaaaaarggggh!!!

25 posted on 03/17/2008 5:18:32 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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American military leaders feared a land invasion of Japan to bring an end to World War II would involve tremendous Allied casualties --

That's an out and out lie of ommission. The American Military had seen the civilian suicides/homicides by the thousands as entire families killed themselves with grenades or jumping off the Marpi Point cliffs of Saipan after that islands invasion. It wasn't just our military casualties our military was worried about.

Semper Fi,

TS

27 posted on 03/17/2008 5:19:24 PM PDT by The Shrew (www.ToSetTheRecordStraight.com/www.swiftvets.com/www.wintersoldier.com-The Truth Shall Set YOU Free!)
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Too bad he does not have a segment included of the brutality that caused the bomb to be dropped...


29 posted on 03/17/2008 5:20:33 PM PDT by sit-rep
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We’re gonna have to slap the dirty little Jap
And Uncle Sam’s the guy who can do it
We’ll skin the streak of yellow from this sneaky little fellow
And he’ll think a cyclone hit him when he’s thru it
We’ll take the double crosser to the old woodshed
We’ll start on his bottom and go to his head
When we get thru with him he’ll wish that he was dead
We gotta slap the dirty little Jap

We’re gonna have to slap the dirty little Jap
And Uncle Sam’s the guy who can do it
The Japs and all their hooey will be changed into chop suey
And the rising sun will set when we get thru it
Their alibi for fighting is to save their face
For ancestors waiting in celestial space
We’ll kick their precious face down to the other place
We gotta slap the dirty little Jap

We’re gonna have to slap the dirty little Jap
And Uncle Sam’s the guy who can do it
We’ll murder Hirohito, massacre that slob Benito
Hang’em with that Shickle gruber when we’re thru it
We’ll search the highest mountain for the tallest tree
To build us a hanging post for the evil three
We’ll call in all our neighbors, let’em know their free
We gotta slap the dirty little Jap


38 posted on 03/17/2008 5:26:32 PM PDT by Jim Noble (I've got a home in Glory Land that outshines the sun)
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I have always wondered...

Assume for a moment that Japan had given up on August 5th. Yeah, yeah, I know... No way. But bear with me.

So assume that nu-cu-lar weapons were not used in order to end WWII and the effects of the first bombs were not on display for the world to see and be rightfully horrified by.

It seems (seeeemmmsss...) to me that it would now be much more likely that a more advanced weapon with a larger yield would eventually have been used elsewhere by someone else or another.

Perhaps, just perhaps, the use of early atom bombs provided a graphic enough example of the effects that made the further use of said weapons less acceptable and therefore less likely.

Just my $0.02.

42 posted on 03/17/2008 5:27:34 PM PDT by El Sordo
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