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[rextorres]

[quote]Originally posted by Atrocities:

RexTorres, that has got to be the most conspiritorial revisionistic comment that I have ever read. Seriously I am ROTFLMAO. Thanks for the humor man.

Narratio - Well spoken. Thank you.

Atrocities - dropping the a-bomb wasn't meant to save civilian lives - I guess it's hard for flag wavers to admit that the U.S. was already killing hundred of thousands of civilian lives - not admitting THIS is revisionist.

The Japanese were already shocked and awed and just needed a way to surrender.

Here is a quote from President Truman to Samuel McCrea Cavert, August 11, 1945 that talks about the revenge factor.
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistle...mall/mb13a.htm

Also we didn't tell the Japanese we had an A-bomb until AFTER we dropped it so there was no way they would have known what was coming. Those leaflets you are so proud of were not dropped until AFTER Hiroshima. So the Japanese were not given any warning prior to the dropping in Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened only 3 days later not enough time for them to even think about the first bomb's effects.

Just because I don't agree with you that the Japanese deserved getting hit with an A-bomb doesn't make me wrong.

On the bright side - it probably stopped a nuclear war with the Russians.

[ December 11, 2003, 19:14: Message edited by: rextorres ]