Hiroshima Plus 63 [Happy Hiroshima Day]

The Moderate Voice ^ | August 6, 2008 | PATRICK EDABURN

[Lurker]

I wasn’t arguing about history, but about law.

Please cite the Statute and the date of passage. If there was a Treaty involved, name it and the date of ratification by both the US and Japan.

Then cite the enabling Legislation.

Thanks in advance.

L

[We Dare Defend Our Rights]

Sow the wind, reap the world wind.

Lots of men from Bataan and under these rows of white crosses across the Pacfic, don't think enough Atomic Bombs were dropped.

There is no such thing as a “responsible voice” against the bombing, only traitors.

[Romulus]

Men were hanged by us for much less. Don’t waste your sophistry on me.

[Lurker]

senior members of the US military, regarded the bombings as a war crime at the time.

Name two.

Unless and until you can do that, you're blowing smoke.

L

[We Dare Defend Our Rights]

In those terms, we are at war with the Middle East Oil Powers since the 1075 Oil Embargo.

[We Dare Defend Our Rights]

Maybe I should add 900 years to that date

[BlueLancer]

Then explain to me the difference between carpet- and fire-bombing cities, killing hundreds of thousands of people, and dropping a nuclear weapon, killing far less.

Let's see how your sophistry holds up ...

[Repeal The 17th]

Truman absolutely did the right thing and anyone who thinks otherwise has no understanding of the times.

[Repeal The 17th]

“Lots of responsible voices, including senior members of the US military, regarded the bombings as a war crime at the time.”
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You have reached your maximum capacity of feces.

[Romulus]

Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of staff to the President

Under-Secretary of the Navy, Ralph Bard

commander in chief of the U.S. Fleet and chief of Naval Operations, Ernest J. King

Lieutenant General Thomas Handy, Marshall’s deputy chief of staff

General Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, who in July 1945 commanded the U.S. Army Strategic Air Force (USASTAF)

[RightField]

It’s NICE to share a birthday with such an honorable event.

Happy Birthday to you, and to me, too! .... and to my son who was born on my birthday in 1986.

[DuncanWaring]

Explain how Little Boy and Fat Man were war crimes, but this (fire-bombing of Tokyo, killing more than the nuclear weapons) was not:

[Romulus]

There is no difference. Both are examples of terror bombing with minimal military objectives.

[BlueLancer]

"Explain how Little Boy and Fat Man were war crimes, but this (fire-bombing of Tokyo, killing more than the nuclear weapons) was not:"

And then use your list from #150 and explain the roles that these individuals played in the carpet- and fire-bombing campaigns against both Germany and Japan.

[BlueLancer]

"There is no difference. Both are examples of terror bombing with minimal military objectives."

Okay, now name one enemy leader/commander who was executed solely for such a "crime".

[seoul62]

My Mother was an 11 Year old child, remembered seeing, as she described it, sixty-three years later: flashing sun from her hometown of Fukuoka, Japan - it was the dropping of the second Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. My Mother remembered the air-raids and bombings, and she holds no anger or malice towards the Americans because she still says to this day that the action the Americans took saved lives and that the Japanese would have never given up. I thank your Father for his service to this country. My Late Father, was an American and served in the United States Army, it was his birthday today, Happy Birthday Daddy./Just Asking - seoul62.........

[BlueLancer]

"There is no difference. Both are examples of terror bombing with minimal military objectives."

So, basically, everyone that you've listed in #150 could also be included in your list of war criminals as well ...

[Romulus]

That would have been a little embarrassing for our side, don’t you think? Sometimes old enemies decide it’s best just to let bygones be bygones.

[section9]

I have a hard time believing that "Tooey" Spaatz ever thought of Hiroshima as a war crime.

Here's a picture of him about to pin the DSC on Paul Tibbets after Operation CENTERBOARD.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Zman516]

I salute you, sir!

The agony of the USS Indianapolis is one of the saddest
tales to emerge from the war. Their valor as well as that of you men who rescued them was unfortunately eclipsed by the events of that momentous day.