Jon Stewart: Truman’s a War Criminal for Bombing Hiroshima

Daily Show ^ | April 30, 2009

[Free ThinkerNY]

"Here's what I think of the atom bombs. I think if you dropped an atom bomb fifteen miles offshore and you said, "The next one's coming and hitting you," then I would think it's okay. To drop it on a city, and kill a hundred thousand people. Yeah. I think that's criminal."

[FlingWingFlyer]

Another punk, spoiled brat wishing that German or Japanese was the national language. College sure can screw some people up in the head.

[Shadowstrike]

Finish the statement Jon...”but, it was perfectly reasonable for them to bomb Pearl Hardbor, and kill thousands of Americans...”

:(

[Nachum]

Dear Jon, I wish your father or grandfather would have been one of the poor soldiers who would have had to invade Japan if Truman had not dropped the bomb on them. They say that we probably would have lost at least 50,000 men.

Chances are, we would not have had to hear your whining.

[1066AD]

So easy to say, sitting in comfort and safety 60+ years later. What a self-centered idiot.

[lilylangtree]

Jon Stewart is a first class idiot.

[P-Marlowe]

Dropping that bomb saved millions of Japanese lives.

[frogjerk]

Jon Leibowitz is a jackass of the highest magnitude.

[eyedigress]

Good Point.

[skinkinthegrass]

this maybe a "jump the shark" moment for this (cr@p) show.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

These fools have no idea what a real war is all about—I mean a real war where we, the spoiled USA, could Lose and become a slave nation to another power. Just wait they the US loses the next one to China or some other nation and they see US rights tossed away and their children in Chinese slave-factories. They would change their tune.

[G Larry]

Why are “comedians” political opinions taken seriously enough to get us all excited?

Ignore them!

[Dallas59]

Lol...Who or What would actually watch a show like that?

[Oldexpat]

He doesn’t know much about anything, including history.
We had only two bombs and the next one was a long way off.
They weren’t 100% sure that both of them would work.
Truman had no choice, but to end the loss of life on both sides.

[Just mythoughts]

Ah the great leader of our MSM speaks... Our MSM has become the Jon Stewart media... twisted, perverted and on the downhill slide.

[Frank_2001]

“College sure can screw some people up in the head.”

And how!!! Probably “educated” by some screwball professor angry because the quick end of the war prevented Stalin from invading and occupying a big chunk of Japan.

[eyedigress]

The irony is the pic on the left embraces their enemy. The enemy on the right throws you in a gas chamber.

[Red Steel]

And the estimated US casualties taking Japan would have been staggering. What an idiot statement by Stewart.

"The invasion of Japan was to be no easy military undertaking and casualties were to be extremely heavy. Admiral William Leahy estimated that there would be over 250,000 Americans killed or wounded on Kyushu alone. General Charles Willoughby, MacArthur's Chief of Intelligence estimated that American casualties from the entire operation would be one million men by the fall of 1946. General Willoughby's own Intelligence staff considered this to be a conservative estimate. "

http://home.att.net/~sallyann4/invasion2.html

[Trod Upon]

He doesn’t know much about anything, including history. We had only two bombs and the next one was a long way off. They weren’t 100% sure that both of them would work. Truman had no choice, but to end the loss of life on both sides. That kind of analytical thought is WAY beyond someone like Stewart. Remember, he makes his living by making a statement he believes to be ironic, then smirking and waiting for the audience to respond to the laughter cue. An intellectual lightweight.

[Seaplaner]

Jon Stewart is a bright guy.

Pity that he's not much good at clear, rational, and complete historically-based thinking.

Not only is Mr. Steward susceptible to group hysteria; he's the wild-eyed inciter of the hysterical group.

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