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To: r9etb, Aurelius
Please read "Marching Orders: The Untold Story of World War II" by Bruce Lee. The Magic Summaries were clearly showing to Truman, Marshall et al that the Japanese had no intentions of losing face and surrendering. Up till the last moment they were still trying to work deals with the Russians and whoever to keep their military dictatorship.

The bomb was the best and final answer. Most believe that there would have been between 100,000 -1,000,000 US casualties if we had invaded and many, many more Japanese. Sorry, Truman did the right thing.

176 posted on 05/23/2002 3:44:35 PM PDT by schu
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To: schu
"Sorry, Truman did the right thing."

You needn't apologize to me for expressing your opinion in the matter. I have no problem living with the fact that others hold an opinion different than mine.

254 posted on 05/24/2002 9:33:07 AM PDT by Aurelius
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