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From: LindyBill11/14/2009 10:36:21 AM
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Remember, Hirohito was the bad guy, not Harry

By Thomas P.M. Barnett

ARTICLE: Hiroshima: The dreaded invitation, By Blaine Harden, Washington Post, November 13, 2009 Link

Thank God on that non-apology. Without a doubt, it was a brilliant call by Truman that saved tens of thousands of American lives and far more Japanese lives. The villain in this show was never Harry, but the Emperor, who blithely let so many of his countrymen die in the futile final months of his regime's brutal war of conquest that brought untold suffering to people throughout Asia. I have always found Japan's efforts to use Hiroshima and Nagasaki to cast Imperial Japan as innocent victim as one of the most distasteful lies of the 20th century--right up there with Holocaust deniers. That regime absolutely got what it deserved, and found some salvation only in serving as the warning to others regarding the damage nukes can cause.
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