[Petronski]

Why don't you throw the question out to guys who were in the Pacific waiting for orders, guys being transfered to the Pacific after winning in Europe, their wives, and children who would never have been born...

I'm just such a child, and I think oldhoosier is a crybaby victim of lefty propaganda. Read Rape of Nanking, for starters. Or better yet, go to a reunion of Pacific Theater WWII vets and spout that garbage, oldhoosier. Some of those old coots are still tough enough to tear you a new one without spilling their beer.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Amen. We did the right thing.

[The Old Hoosier]

Atrocities committed by the Japs don't justify our atrocities. I'm well aware of the death marches, the human experimentation, etc. So would that have justified bayonetting Jap babies? Killing Jap POW's (this was done in some cases, by people I know who were really brave soldiers in battle)?

It's still not right. The case of the bomb is best summed up by the old saying: The Ends do not Justify the Means.

That's not lefty propaganda, it's good, old-fashioned morality. The leftists, who don't care for it anyway, want to use it as a tool, an excuse to emasculate America. I say, let's use it to make America stronger, more righteous and just, and more effective on our future battlefields.

FRegards,
TOH