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To: ZenWarrior who wrote (149019)5/26/2001 5:22:31 PM
From: willcousa  Respond to of 769670
 
Those bombs saved my father's life and countless others.



To: ZenWarrior who wrote (149019)5/26/2001 5:28:08 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
The estimate of the casualties sustained on both sides by an invasion of the Japanese home islands, based on our experience invading Okinawa, made it more humane, and a lesser loss of life, to use the shock effect of the atomic bombs. Remember, after Hiroshima, the Japanese still wouldn't surrender, which is why we bombed Nagasaki......



To: ZenWarrior who wrote (149019)5/26/2001 8:27:23 PM
From: rich4eagle  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Sometimes when you sit in the toilet bowl you just never can smell the stink



To: ZenWarrior who wrote (149019)5/26/2001 10:05:21 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Respond to of 769670
 
We're the only country in the world to drop not one, but 2 atomic bombs... and we want to teach the world human rights?? Go
figure!


I guess you figure it's irony. Many American lives were saved. And then we rebuilt Japan and Europe, our enemies, go figure.


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