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Pope Says Parents Cried Over Atom Bombings
Crux ^ | 11/25/19 | AP

Posted on 11/25/2019 6:08:15 PM PST by marshmallow

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To: marshmallow

Franky either doesn’t understand, or doesn’t care, that upwards of half a million American lives and probably 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 Japanese lives were saved by killing approximately 250,000 people with atomic bombs. It wasn’t a good choice, but given that there was only a choice between those two alternatives, President Truman made the right choice.

Further, without the existence of large numbers of nuclear weapons that we and the Russians were pointing at each other, it is fairly likely that there would’ve been a third world war sometime in the 1960s or 70s, which would have been far more bloody than World War II. Assholes like this guy don’t think below the first layer of the onion. It shows a subpar intelligence.


41 posted on 11/25/2019 6:38:26 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: dp0622
I don’t know the culture over there. Would they have armed the women?

Worse.

They would have let them drive.

42 posted on 11/25/2019 6:39:32 PM PST by Captain Walker
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To: Captain Walker

ROFLMAO

That’s so bad but so funny :)


43 posted on 11/25/2019 6:40:12 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: marshmallow

I cried over the news reels of Japanese burying the people of Nanjing alive and jumping on the soil to pack it down.

After seventy years, those images are still burned in my brain.


44 posted on 11/25/2019 6:40:18 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: marshmallow

So, what? That was over 70 years ago! The bombings were necessary.

I want to hear his popenesses’ take on the Holocaust and the exploitation of children (boys especially) around the planet.

Talk about being Soros’ puppet.


45 posted on 11/25/2019 6:41:19 PM PST by madison10
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To: TADSLOS

The Francis had long ago declared the death penalty to be immoral in all cases (contradicting his pre-conciliar predecessors); and more recently, that even life imprisonment is immoral.


46 posted on 11/25/2019 6:45:26 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: marshmallow

Tell this Anti-P0pe that parents cried right here in America when Pearl Harbor was attacked. We lost a lot of good men and women that day. Unprovoked, deadly attack against the United States.


47 posted on 11/25/2019 6:45:37 PM PST by WWG1WWA ("Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity." - Marcus Aurelius)
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To: dp0622
Would they have armed the women?

Yes.

And the children.

They would tie our air men to a post in the school yard, hand out knives to the kids and tell them, "Take your revenge."

48 posted on 11/25/2019 6:46:52 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
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To: marshmallow

Meanwhile in Nanking.


49 posted on 11/25/2019 6:47:59 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Ancesthntr
Any discussion over the bombs is a fake one, because it’s always portrayed as a singular event, a nerve-wracking decision made by HST who was agonizing over the cost in human life.

The USAAF under Curtis LeMay was superheating cities for months before the Bombs were ever shipped to the Marianas; the firebombing of Tokyo in March of 45 killed more people than the Bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

The mystery to the US military at the time would have been why anyone was raising a fuss about it; the atomic bombs were simply a continuation of a months-long campaign that simply left a smaller carbon footprint.

50 posted on 11/25/2019 6:49:18 PM PST by Captain Walker
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To: marshmallow

When the children cry let them know we tried
When the children fight let them know it ain’t right
When the children pray let them know the way
‘Cause when the children sing then the new world begins


51 posted on 11/25/2019 6:49:26 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Mr. K

I know what you’re thinking but he has filled the Vatican with fellow travelers so his replacement will probably be more of the same.


52 posted on 11/25/2019 6:50:33 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: WWG1WWA

Can a pope be a malignancy on civil society ? Just askin’.


53 posted on 11/25/2019 6:50:51 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Skywise

Has there ever been a more anti-American pope?


54 posted on 11/25/2019 6:51:43 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: marshmallow

Did they cry over Japanese crimes against humanity?


55 posted on 11/25/2019 6:53:01 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: olesigh; All

I completely believe I owe my life to the atom bomb. Grandpa would have been in the invasion force.


56 posted on 11/25/2019 6:53:53 PM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: marshmallow

FOAD Antichrist.


57 posted on 11/25/2019 6:55:30 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: marshmallow

The Japanese leadership used the same vehicle of religion as Jorge to hoist themselves as divine entities over their people. In the Japanese case, Emperor Hirohito used his “divinity” to justify his murderous actions against America. With Jorge, he has also elevated himself as divinely justified, to attack America; represented by Donald Trump. By turning world opinion against President Trump, he is turning the world against the American people. Roman Catholics should have a mechanism to impeach this impostor.


58 posted on 11/25/2019 6:58:26 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: marshmallow

Did they cry over the bombing of Pearl Harbor? The rape of Nanking? The Bataan Death March? Japanese brutality in Korea, China, and Philippines? How about Unit 731?

Did they cry over the bombing of London? Warsaw? Antwerp?

Well?

Did they?

What say you, Frankie, old chap?


59 posted on 11/25/2019 6:59:56 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: marshmallow
There was no atheist in a fox hole,
And men who never prayed before
Lifted tired and bloodshot eyes to heaven
And begged the Lord to end that awful war.

They told him of their homes and loved ones.
They told him that they'd like to be there.
I believe the bomb that struck Hiroshima
Was the answer to our fighting boys' prayers.

When the Atom Bomb Fell--Karl & Harty (1945)

60 posted on 11/25/2019 7:01:19 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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