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To: ConorMacNessa

>>Looking for war crimes? Try the rape of Nanking or the manifold atrocities of the Russians during WWII - they make the Nazis look like pikers.

I didn’t say others didn’t commit war crimes, what I’m saying is that we committed them as well - something that many defenders of the use of atomic bombs gloss over...


36 posted on 12/05/2009 8:11:27 PM PST by UFC Pride K1
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To: UFC Pride K1
I'm not glossing over it - it was not a war crime - the war would have gone on much longer and would have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands on both sides. The bomb was the humane way to bring the war in Japan to a rapid close.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
42 posted on 12/05/2009 8:19:30 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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