[oceanview]

why didn't Truman use the first atomic bombs on Tokyo then?

we have to make careful decisions here. if these insurgents were a massed army in the field, like the Republican Guard, we would have obliterated them already. But they are mixed in with the population, and if our attacks are indescriminate, and that same population "signs on" to their cause - we'll have 100s of thousands or a million opposing us. We cannot handle that situation.

its tough on these Marines, the losses they are taking, but there is a bigger picture here.

[Jeff Head]

We didn't need to nuc Tokyo, we had already fire bombed it and countless other Japanese and German cities...civilians and all in many cases.

Fallujah and the other current hot spots are a vast minority of the Iraqi people and the majority is certainly watching to see how we counter these same types of tyrants and those who abett and harbor tham as those who ruled the country for the last several generations.

IMHO we need to send the animals a message they will never forget and break the will of those who abett and harbor them...just like we did the Germans and the Japanese people.

See my POST 38.

[Rome2000]

and if our attacks are indescriminate, and that same population "signs on" to their cause - we'll have 100s of thousands or a million opposing us. We cannot handle that situation.

Sure we can, we did it in WWII, and its going to take the same thing to win over here.

We nuked the Japs, and they love us.

We bombed civilian populations in Germany as well.

These creatures just need a little radiation and alcohol to get over their mass insanity.

[TomasUSMC]

We already have 100's of millions opposing US.
Truman didn't use the A bomb on Tokyo because it was already burn't to a crisp.
Now I'll tell you what will happen if we keep up with this kinder gentler compassionate strategy.

-This war will go on and on and then..... the Islamist will finally get a WMD, and I gaaarrrrunnnnteeee you, they will not give one hoot about our civilian casualties. As evidenced by WTC1 and WTC2.