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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: MSI who wrote (259197)5/28/2002 5:34:39 PM
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<<Truman dropped the atomic bomb on an exhausted Japan, not to defeat Japan - >>

The Japanese were actually training children to fight with spears. That was going to be their first line of defense. The idea was if a GI had to kill a 10 year old girl he would be demoralized and not a match for the remnants of the Japanese army.
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