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To: Yogizuna who wrote (38958)	11/27/2001 1:12:30 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Sorry, but I do not believe in nuking or A-bombing civilian cities to prevent military casualties.... I know that we are also debating whether an invasion would have been needed if we did not drop the bombs, but the casualties prevented where not just military. Many Japanese civilians would have died in an invasion, esp. if the Japanese government had succeeded in its plans to have almost total national resistance to the invasion. This kind of attitude reminds me of the Dialo case in NYC, where they shot at the poor guy something like 40 times.... Do you know how quickly four scared cops can shoot 40 bullets? It only takes a few seconds. It was not as if they fired, thought about it and fired again. I'm not saying the cops did a good job, or otherwise supporting their actions but it is not IMO indicative of a lack of concern for human life. It might be indicative of inadequate training. A-bombing cities with innocent civilians to force an enemy to surrender is just as sick as flying large jets into massive skyscrapers in my opinion. Even if we put aside arguments about the justice of the cause, the a-bombs may have saved lives and could be reasonably assumed before they where used to have had a good chance to end the most horrible war in human history. The WTC attack had no reasonable chance to end anything except the lives of thousands of people. Tim

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