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To: tejek who wrote (245252)	8/7/2005 1:52:19 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (3) of 1584556

tejek, re:Its not surprising that a neocon misses that import since number of deaths seems to be a popular way for you to measure success or failure. Personally - lives saved is a better measuring stick. In his personal diary, Truman wrote, “General Marshall told me that it might cost half a million American lives to force the enemy’s surrender on his home grounds.” This estimate was based on previous battle figures at Okinawa, where Americans suffered 50,000 casualties despite outnumbering the Japanese by two and a half to one. Indeed, if Truman opted to invade Japan, the total number of American and Japanese casualties would possibly be in the millions. Although the bomb took 150,000 Japanese lives, the number of casualties would have been far greater had an invasion been executed. In 1985, in a special broadcasting the fortieth anniversary of the bombings, ABC’s Ted Koppel claimed: “What happened over Japan…was a human tragedy…But what was planned to take place in the war between Japan and the United States would almost certainly have been an even greater tragedy.” When compared to a land invasion, the atomic bomb certainly saved far more Japanese lives than would a land invasion.

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