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To: Pink Minion who wrote (65502)	8/30/2002 3:03:07 AM
From: Cary Salsberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

OT RE: "Like the 200,000 civilians we nuked in Japan?" WWII was a life and death struggle between nations. Civilians manned the "home front" and produced weapons and supplies for the military. Our adversaries, Germany and Japan, were truly "evil empires". I would say that the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki represented an act that was closer to Lt. Calleys' actions. It was a crime, but there were mitigating circumstances. It is not certain that any other leader would have acted differently from Truman.