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In reply to the discussion: Every year, I see the same thing re Hiroshima and Nagasaki [View all]Edit history
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You would be referring to the commanders that Eisenhower communicated with regularly
ET Awful
Aug 2013
#38
Would you please name the Pacific theater commanders who thought the bomb was necessary?
Jim Lane
Aug 2013
#133
The error in Eisenhower's thinking is that the Japanese military were nowhere near 'ready
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#24
Sorry but if you actually study the history you will discover that your statement is the mythology
jimlup
Aug 2013
#25
Yet, the day after Nagasaki, Hirohito ordered the Japanese to begin the surrender process
dbackjon
Aug 2013
#91
That's the thing. We've never used an atomic weapon in anger since, and neither has anyone else.
AtheistCrusader
Aug 2013
#60
So, by that logic ("as soon as it was ready it was going to be used", the actual status of Japan's
ET Awful
Aug 2013
#98
An invasion of the Japanese home islands would have cost an estimated 1 million
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#28
I'd have the same reaction regardless of whether the bomb had been dropped on Berlin or Hiroshima...
Violet_Crumble
Aug 2013
#136
Curtis LeMay said if the US lost the war, he'd be rightfully hanged as a war criminal.
geek tragedy
Aug 2013
#2
Guy ran for president with George Wallace (D-Alabama) on an Independent ticket in 1968.
Octafish
Aug 2013
#20
If you're going to caution people not to be assholes, you might want to change your own tone.
Throd
Aug 2013
#3
Don't pick fights with innocent bystanders, and then complain when you lose.
closeupready
Aug 2013
#10
Who are you talking about? Because all of those dead Japanese families were pretty innocent. n/t
Dawgs
Aug 2013
#78
Got it. If I'm an innocent person born into a country that has aggressive leaders...
Dawgs
Aug 2013
#82
So, killing thousands upon thousands of innocent families was the only option, in your opinion? n/t
Dawgs
Aug 2013
#85
Sounds like a great 'stand your ground' argument. 'Don't blame me. They forced me to do it.' n/t
Dawgs
Aug 2013
#89
Technical Note: The Nazis victimized anyone they considered "Untermenschen" (sub-human) with
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#30
What's done is done, and it cannot be undone. Shame on ALL of you for turning this into a
kestrel91316
Aug 2013
#29
There's no "debate" here. There IS a whole lot of blaming dead people for
kestrel91316
Aug 2013
#143
Yet the US did nothing in the face of British imperialism in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
ET Awful
Aug 2013
#114
Irrelevant. You made the argument that the reason the US imposed an oil embargo against
ET Awful
Aug 2013
#129
The British were killing huge numbers of innocent civilians in places like India.
ET Awful
Aug 2013
#132
The book 'Hiroshima' by John Hersey told me everything I needed to know about the justification
AtheistCrusader
Aug 2013
#42
The USA was in a big hurry to test the bombs on living cities before the war ended.
hunter
Aug 2013
#51