You wouldn’t believe the BS that is taught in Jap schools about WWII. Total propaganda. Most Japs don’t even know about Pearl Harbor.
BTTT .....
Sure, by the pink panty putz crowd. Some of these idiots wouldn't even have been born if we hadn't done that...their ancestors would have been killed in the invasion of Japan! What MORONS!
Japan was allied with the Nazis in a war of world conquest that would have exterminated freedom and democracy across the globe if they were successful. The Japanese deliberately starved and slaughtered millions of civilians, they raped children and pregnant women, they forced families to have sex with each other for the fun of it, they tortured and experimented on prisoners of war — and then there was Pearl Harbor.
The b@$tards attacked us at Pearl on 12-7-1941. Everywhere we fought them in the Pacific they fought like hell and rarely surrendered costing many American lives. Truman did the right thing by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki as it saved thousands of American lives by avoiding an invasion of Japan. As it turned out it was the best thing that ever happened to Japan. We rebuilt them with taxpayer money and now they are one of the leading economies in the world.
IMNSHO, it was the Japanese Military that refused to surrender even after the FIRST drop, that has the blood on their hands.
Very honorable. Not.
And has anyone noticed that the Japanese have not rattled their sabres at us since?
Gee. Wouldn’t it be LOVELY to live in a world where your Enemies FEARED you and your Allies TRUSTED you? Think we’ll ever be there again? *SPIT*
Most Jap tourist get really upset when visiting Hawaii and going on the USS AZ tour. For many it is the first they ever heard of a sneak attack. They are taught they were the victims is WWII.
The “bomb”: Made in America, tested in Japan.
It is also arguable that the bombs saved Japanese lives, likely over a million. If a conventional invasion had gone forward, many more Japanese would have died than did at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Anyone with knowledge of what happened in the fight for Okinawa understands this. The Japanese casualties, both military and civilian, were horrific, and the main home islands would have been Okinawa writ large.
Only ideologues and the historically ignorant think the bombs didn’t save lives.
It was true in 1865. It was true in 1945. The Japanese chose war, and having sown the wind they had nothing to complain about when they reaped the whirlwind.
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We should have executed Hirohito for War Crimes, but didn’t.
My standard question to those who bemoan the use of nuclear weapons....
If the Japanese or the Nazi’ possessed these weapons and the ability to deliver them, do they believe that either one of these would have would have used them without remorse?
Wiped the smiles right off their faces...They better hope we never do it again. Lesson better be learned.
This how we need to deal with radical Islam.
EXCELLENT ARTICLE! Thank you for posting! My dad was in the Philippines and preparing for the invasion of Japan.
Thank goodness, because of those bombs, that invasion didn’t happen. It would have been far worse for both us and them.
Dear Japan,
Fuk - u - Shima you
Tptb may be making your nuclear contamination of the pacific ocean and the world a nonstory but for how much longer
One probable result of Hiroshima is that there was not a nuclear exchange between the USSR and the USA. Without that demonstration on a city all the testing in the world might not have been enough to deter the Soviets, or perhaps the USA, from firing nukes when they, and we, had several of them.
The nuking was necessary to save the lives of the POWs that were located on the island of Japan. Given the other strategic reasons for the bomb, there is little doubt that President Truman made the correct decision.