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

To: Thomas M. who wrote (972)	7/8/2002 10:37:26 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3467

Japan's final surrender came on the same terms as were being discussed in the Potsdam Declaration. But Japan's final surrender came after the bomb was dropped. Before the bomb was dropped, the Japanese government rejected the Potsdam Declaration. The bombs changed absolutely nothing. Except for the fact that before the bombs the terms were unacceptable to the Japanese government and after they were acceptable. Thus the bombs did change the position of the Japanese government and end the war immediately. A panel set up by President Truman to study the Pacific war issued a report, the United States Strategic Bombing Survey, in July 1946,... That panels conclusions may or may not be correct. However, Truman made the decision to use the bomb in the summer of 1945 - get that, 1945, while the war was still going on and people were dying every day, not 1946, after the war was over and Japan occupied! Do you think he should have had clairvoyants on his advisory staff? Or do you think he had clairvoyant powers himself?