Posted on 08/06/2008 7:08:42 AM PDT by PurpleMan
Don’t you have to be somehow in the chain of command to be at risk? Not all of them were, I think.
Anyway, I said those are men who considered the act to be a war crime. I was asked for the names and provided them. Deal with it.
Your naivete is touching. I hope it won’t cost you too much.
If you do, then I guess we've pretty much covered all the bases here. I strongly disagree and believe that these are legitimate wartime targets.
However, if I have misunderstood you and you don't agree that these are protected targets, then at what level does it become a war crime and what level is a purely legal and military strike against national assets?
Surely, though, you're well-read enough to know that both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were centers of communication, supply, and command and control for numerous military field forces and naval units. I'm sure that you also know that the Japanese factory system relied on a multitude of small, widely scattered but numerous, family-level assembly points and factories, all contained within populated areas and lending themselves immune from any type of precision targeting.
Finally, even the present Geneva Convention recognizes that tactical and strategic targeting of civilians is sometimes unavoidable ...
4th Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Part 3, Article 1, Section 28:
"The presence of a protected person (aka civilian noncombatant) may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations."
Thank you for your service.
“Japan was already on the verge of surrender. The bombs
did not save lives and were a crime against humanity...”
Read about the Bataan Death march and any pity toward those that died in the justified nuclear bombings will disappear.
If it doesn’t then you ain’t an American.
Even moreso if you read about "Unit 731".
At least the Allies didn't rape them first like the Japanese soldiers.
Quit white-washing history.
As far as the babies that were killed, their blood was on the hands of Tojo and Company.
That is indeed another fine example.
“An invasion would not have occured if we had let the Japanese know that they could kill the emperor.”
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Oh, Captain, give me a break, please.
So someone had to tell them this?
I am saddened, because I thought you were smarter than that.
Now I think that you too may also have reached
your maximum storage capacity of feces.
Star date: August 6th 1945
The scientists said,
“We have a weapon that will end this nasty war post haste.”
President Truman said, “Make it so.”
Colonel Tibbetts said, “Aye, Captain.”
And it was the right thing to do.
L
What makes you expert on this matter?
“What makes you expert on this matter?”
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Sic ‘em sea dog, I got yer back.
Happy Hiroshima Day! One of the finest hours in the history of the USA and its military forces.
On August 6th, 1945, the Naval Air Forces of a still-mighty power (Imperial Japan) dropped bombs on, and sunk, the USS Bullhead (SS-332), the last U.S. Navy submarine lost in combat, off the coast of Bali (in present-day Indonesia.)
In less important news, another bomb of some sort was dropped on Hiroshima.
(Full disclosure)At the same time, a certain, very tough, 20-year-old paratrooper - the headquarters-platoon explosives expert - was crawling through tunnels to to blast out the remaining resiting Japanese troops on Negros in the Philipines.
His Regiment, the 503rd, was slated to have to jump on Yokohama, where he almost certainly would have been killed.
This was the tough old bastard whom I had to convince and woo to let me marry his daughter, the fourth of his eight kids - whom he nicknamed "Favorite."
Without that bomb, I wouldn't have the love of my life and the mother of my children.
Thank God for nuclear fission.
The fact that Japan had already invaded and raped the poo out of Manchuria in the 1930’s might suggest that Japan was at war a decade before they decided to launch a sneak attack on the United States.
Another example, combined with the rest of the nonsense you've posted, of how little you know about the topic.
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