http://books.google.com/books?id=hdoEpslpoi8C&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=%22million+casualties%22+%22invasion+of+japan%22&source=bl&ots=YIbi3RYNH9&sig=ra9yrPHOeibc6EGSSlJFZi5RTaw&hl=en&ei=6VcbS5SkONC3lAfouLHvCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22million%20casualties%22%20%22invasion%20of%20japan%22&f=false
You deserve nothing else from me. Call me a gutless coward, I'll call you a baby killer-wannabee. You're doubtless too much of an Armchair General to even be in a position to actually do it, so you're just a wannabee as far as I'm concerned. Have a nice life. Don't post to me again, or I go straight to the mod.
Please do go to the mod you gutless wonder...
As for your quote, Skates has since peeled back his stance due to analyses such as these:
http://home.roadrunner.com/~casualties/
CASUALTY PROJECTIONS FOR THE U.S. INVASIONS OF JAPAN, 1945-1946: PLANNING AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
by D. M. Giangreco in the Journal of Military History, 61 (July 1997): 521-82