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To: willcousa who wrote (54466)	10/23/2001 11:14:10 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 70976

WC, On september 10 i was already bailing on bush. I am quite impressed with the way he is handling this crisis. And his team of rumsfeld and powell who replaced salzberg and kerecz<ggg> are the kind of folks we need now to make the hard decisions. The nuke decision will never be an easy one but Clinton with his secy state quoting ghandi and secy of defense "ratchet" trading amat and nvls for 2.5 point profits is not a pretty picture. mike PS Brian and Cary--am joking--still havent lost my sense of humor

To: willcousa who wrote (54466)	10/23/2001 12:56:28 PM
From: Alan Gallaspy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Will, The war with Japan was already won, they had no merchant fleet left. The decision to drop the bomb was purely political. The rationale that 1000's of American lives were spared is just the balm that had to be applied to our conscience in order to justify cooking over 200,000 Japanese civilians. Here is just a small sample of the brass that were in the Pacific at the time who knew that the atom bombing Japanese cities was unnecessary. colorado.edu