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In reply to the discussion: Hiroshima - quit lying to yourselves [View all]Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)I got it. I am tired of hearing how wrong the Americans were for Hiroshima. . .Japan STARTED the damn war in 1932 by invading Manchuria and the 1934 bombing of Shanghai, then used the Marco Polo Bridge incident to continue an aggressive war and genocide of Chinese civilians that had no ability to defend themselves.
Then they lead massacres in Nanjing, Singapore, Parit Sulong, Sook Jing, Manila and Bangka Island (to name a few). On top of that, they used Chinese as human lab rats in Unit 731 in Harbin.
In 1941, they attacked the US. . .the reason: They were angry we stopped supplying them with the materials that wanted and felt they deserved for their aggressive war in China, a war the US was working to end! So they attacked us to scare us into giving them what they want. They started the war. . .we ended it.
Again, Japanese lives mean more than American lives or Chinese lives. I am so sick of revisionism.
And did I hit a nerve? World War 2 was horrific, and the two major aggressors (Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan) are the reasons.
Why should I have sympathy for them for that time? I will not condemn Japan today for the actions of yesterday, but for the time period between 1932 - 1945, I have absolutely no sympathy for them. The started the war. . .they got what their earned!