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Politics : The Palestinian Hoax -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Noel de Leon who wrote (692)	7/4/2002 7:36:14 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3467

Yeah, whatever, I don't really care... and as far as the atomic bombs used in Japan, I think it's a fool's guess what might have happened otherwise, there is only one reality and that's the one in which we used the atomic bombs against Japan to finish the job... you can continue to wonder those other worldly thing, but just remember three things: 1) Your head is still on backwards 2) Who cares? 3) You're denial betrays you, you're French Canadian after all and you're too ashamed to admit it, shame on you... GZ

To: Noel de Leon who wrote (692)	7/4/2002 7:58:52 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 3467

OT: Decision to Bomb Hiroshima Noel, I've done some reading on the matter. One of the most important determinants of the choice to use the bombs in August, 1945 was the imminent entry of the USSR into the war against Japan. U.S. diplomatic interests did not want to face a negotiation with Russia over dividing the spoils. In the weeks prior to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, several overtures for conditional surrender were being circulated by the Japanese diplomatic corps. They did not have the acquiescence of the Emperor for full unconditional surrender at the time, but the U.S. diplomatic corps and military were fully aware that the Japanese war effort was at a point of exhaustion. There is no indication from the record that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were determinative of the ending of hostilities. Merely that their use accelerated the end of the war and improved the U.S. negotiating position. -Ray