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To: Sir Francis Drake who wrote (55162)	10/28/2002 11:53:52 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Re: If you mean that it was a war crime, because civilians were explictly targeted, then yes, as in fact that was the case Correct. That is exactly what I meant.

To: Sir Francis Drake who wrote (55162)	10/28/2002 11:55:12 AM
From: Sir Francis Drake	Respond to of 281500

zonder, as follow up to my last post, see the statistics: holocaust-history.org Hiroshima - deaths - 138,890 Nagasaki - deaths - 48,857 You have to add a few thousand more who died in subsequent years (to this day, sadly) due to effects of radiation. Now take a look at the conventional deaths; Tokyo bombings: "On May 24, more than four hundred American bombers dropped 3,646 tons of bombs on central Tokyo, and on the industrial areas in the south of the city. More than a thousand Japanese were killed."5 Tokyo, March 1945: "83,793 Japanese civilians killed. That was the official minimum death toll; later, 130,000 deaths were 'confirmed' by the Japanese authorities." 5 Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Kawasaki March-May 1945: "more than a quarter of a million"5 Total death of Japanese civilians in WWII: 2 million. Of that, less than 200,000 is directly attributable to the atomic bombs. At least 7 million were projected dead if Japan were to be invaded conventionally - NOW TELL ME, WHAT WAS HUMANE TO DO? HAVE 7 million die, or the 200,000? Case closed.