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To: investigateworld

Yes, I am. We killed civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not soldiers. The oinly military target that I know of in either area was the 2nd Army HQ, and that was a paper organization. The target area for the Hiroshima bomb was a bridge in the center of the city proper, not a factory, not a depot, not a naval base.

No military target of signifigance + aim point in downtown Hiroshima = terrorism.

And to continue your thought, an invasion of mainland Japan was totally unneccessary given the blockade of Japan and the country would have either starved or surrendered within months.


279 posted on 06/01/2006 9:53:46 AM PDT by Wombat101 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
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To: Wombat101
On the subject of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, you and I couldn't be more diametrically opposed.
281 posted on 06/01/2006 9:58:24 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hey Senators, what have you done with those Conservatives we sent to Congress? (CyberAnt Inspired))
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To: Wombat101; Vicomte13
So General LeMay et al should have been taken to a War Crimes tribunal?
We should feel a sense of shame that we used all means necessary to achieve victory and recover our POWs and captured civilians?
(And where do the Benedictines get their money LOL)
283 posted on 06/01/2006 10:10:40 AM PDT by investigateworld (Abortion stops a beating heart)
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