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To: Arthur McGowan

This is a stupid revisionist article to brainwash the snowflakes with lies to support dumbo.

Other than this commentary it is not worth the time to respond. If you know people who were alive then and know history you know why we dropped the bomb. We built it for that.

Any overtures by the japs to surrender had unacceptable conditions and left an aggressor such as they with their conquests.

We dropped the bombs because we drew a line in the sand and they crossed it. Add to that about 350,000 other reasons of dead and wounded American troops.


44 posted on 05/29/2016 7:05:48 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Sequoyah101

The original plan was to take everything they wanted, and then seek a peace settlement where America and England accepted the Japanese conquests. The military leaders did not think we had the stomach for a long, costly campaign to retake what Japan had conquered. They seriously underestimated American will after Pearl Harbor. What Japan wanted in 1942 was our surrender to Japan’s new empire, something I have no doubt Obama would be willing to accept.


61 posted on 05/29/2016 7:20:14 AM PDT by yawningotter
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