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In reply to the discussion: The Real Reason We Bombed Japan [View all]melman
(7,681 posts)34. First of all
I am not a Hillary supporter. And what does she have to do with this thread?
globalresearch is a lot like infowars. Anyone that doesn't see a problem with it is not going to see the problem. No use explaining what should be obvious.
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Japan specifically targeted Chinese civilian populations in their carpet bombings of Chinese cities
Feeling the Bern
May 2016
#41
Anything to deflect responsibility of Japan's actions and throw it back on the USA
Feeling the Bern
May 2016
#136
Yes, sir. Anything you say, sir. Questions of perspective are OUT. OK..I get it. nt
Bigmack
Jun 2016
#143
My hatred? You mean the 20 years of research in Japan and China I have done?
Feeling the Bern
May 2016
#85
Your blather about the Cultural Revolution is nothing more than a diversionary tactic...
Marengo
May 2016
#120
Japan started their march to conquest in 1898 when they attacked China
Feeling the Bern
May 2016
#89
I was just using the description that my grandfather and his brother used
bearssoapbox
Jun 2016
#142
Even after Nagasaki, hardliners wanted to continue the war by staging a coup against the Emperor:
eppur_se_muova
May 2016
#121
Google "the rape of Nanking" to see what we were dealing with. The Japanese would have
Trust Buster
May 2016
#5
Not to mention also their vivisection experiments of Chinese civilians and POW's.
roamer65
May 2016
#7
Yes, in the Pacific islands the Japanese would capture foreign missionaries. In one instance
Trust Buster
May 2016
#9
I agree. Ask the 100's of thousands of Chinese and Filipino's about "non-combatant populations".
Trust Buster
May 2016
#10
300,000 men, women and children in Nanjing. 20,000 women raped in Nanjing
Feeling the Bern
May 2016
#42
If you haven't already read it, the most comprehensive history of Japanese atrocities during
Trust Buster
May 2016
#51
If you are writing a screenplay, I urge you to read "The Knights of Bushido". Go on Amazon
Trust Buster
May 2016
#59
Read it. Movie is already in preproduction. But most of my research was done in China since I live
Feeling the Bern
May 2016
#62
Once again you show your ignorance of history. It was not just about what they had done, it was
Trust Buster
May 2016
#22
They were horrible, no one is arguing that. But why choose civilian targets?
rhett o rick
May 2016
#15
What about the tens of thousands of allied POW's and civilians in slave labor camps across Japan
Trust Buster
May 2016
#25
If you have something to say, do so. I don't play the answer your pointed questions game.
rhett o rick
May 2016
#27
I did say so. What do you think would have happened to the tens of thousands of POW's and
Trust Buster
May 2016
#29
They would have either starved to death, died of disease or executed before Allied forces could
Trust Buster
May 2016
#93
Again--they were MILITARY targets, and the civilians in the area WERE warned in advance. nt
MADem
May 2016
#116
Have you ever heard of the battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa? Do you know how many people were killed
still_one
May 2016
#16
I notice that the conservatives here all can rationalize why we dropped nuclear bombs on
rhett o rick
May 2016
#17
So what exactly is your point? I hope it isn't, "we did it because they did it."
rhett o rick
May 2016
#21
The point is our involvment in that war was initiated by that unprovoked attack.
still_one
May 2016
#73
I wonder if they would have felt the same way if they were one of the soldiers that would have been
still_one
May 2016
#64
They probably think that the Japanese would have given them flowers as liberators
dbackjon
May 2016
#100
Estimates were that the losses for invading the home islands would be 10-1 with one million American
Feeling the Bern
May 2016
#43
We knew that we had to convince the Emperior to surrender and not the military that
rhett o rick
May 2016
#19
No, we wanted to end the war quickly to save the tens of thousands of allied POW's and allied
Trust Buster
May 2016
#26
Does that make you feel better to think that? Rationalize away if you need to keep from facing
rhett o rick
May 2016
#28
Rationalization ? Saving the lives of tens of thousands of allied POW's and civilians imprisoned
Trust Buster
May 2016
#30
I had an uncle I never met who died on Okinawa. Those that like to hold a political "feel good"
Trust Buster
May 2016
#39
The idea that Truman was at all cavalier about the consequences of his decision is what
MADem
May 2016
#111
I suspect it had no small element of sending a message to Stalin, as well.
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#38
Carpet bombing of Shanghai in 1933, Mukden Train incident of 1931 where they illegally seized
Feeling the Bern
May 2016
#40
I have no problem with the nuking that happened. It ended the war. When I hear this morally offended
Waldorf
May 2016
#47
And I'll let these images sink in and speak for me about the war Japan started
Feeling the Bern
May 2016
#76
Hopefully, war crimes trials and executions/prison terms for the guilty parties.
Feeling the Bern
May 2016
#80
Just to be clear, the military leaders did not have a problem.... WARNING, GRAPHIC
Adrahil
May 2016
#129