[Atrocities]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
i must point out that the US nuked two japanese cities.

Yes, yes we did drop two nukes on Japan. At the time it was to end a war and save human lives. Especially the lives of Americans who where brought into the war as a result of a Japanies sneak attack upon Pear Harbor that killed over 2,000 Americans both civilan as well as military men and women.

Need I remind you Narf of the Batton death march, or about how the Japanies used chemical weapons against the Chinese and how they used captured US, Australian, and british soldiers as slave labor. Or that the Japiness would behead American service men just to see how sharp their swards were?

You can choose to believe in the revisionist rewrite of history Narf, but the bitter God forsaken truth is that people die in war, and those to bombs ended a war that had already taken Ten plus million lives.

And if we had it to do over again, I think we would have still dropped the bombs because back then it was the only way to save lives, including those of the Japanies. Was it the right thing to do? Well not if you choose to believe the utter BS that the revisionistic historieans are trying to shovel down our throats. But if you want to believe in the truth, then you know that the US took every step possible to end the war and protect lives. That for nearly a month befoe the US dropped the first bomb, leaflets were dropped telling people to leave the cities.

The US chose the two targest specifically to avoid the loss of life and do as much damage to Japans war machine as possible. They specificially rulled out many cities including their capital city.

War is not something that can be historically rewritten fifty years after the fact.

"We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war." - Douglas Macarthur

No truer words were ever spoken my friend. What happened to the japanies should never have to happen to another human ever again. An I pray that humans never again use nukes against each other, but we both know that eventually it will happen again. And that deeply saddens me.

But at the time we dropped those two bombs, we were at war and regardless as to how we feel about it now, and I am sure we all feel horrible about it, it was a decision made by men who are mostly dead now. A decision that did end a war and did save lives, on both sides.

[ December 11, 2003, 07:07: Message edited by: Atrocities ]