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To: zonder who wrote (2595)	12/12/2002 8:02:40 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

First, to say that it was a war crime, you'd have to cite a relevant law. The only law binding on the US you cited had a pretty big loophole in it. What you would be better saying is that you think it ought to have been a war crime. Second, I think when you consider the morality of dropping the atomic bombs on Japan you have to ask what the alternative would have been. In life one is often faced with having to choose the lesser of two evils. At the time, the main alternative would have been an invasion of Japan which would have produced many hundreds of casualties, perhaps millions. Personally, I think the atomic bombing of Japan was a horrible thing, although it was not a crime and was morally justified given the known alternatives.

To: zonder who wrote (2595)	12/12/2002 1:46:45 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

How do you defend a city from a nuke, pray tell??? IT doesn't say anything about an effective defense, just that the city is defended. A non defended city is an "open city" that the enemy is free to march into without any local resistance. Also Japan could have shot down the B-29s that carried the nuke. Given our air superiority the chances of this happening were low but it could have happened. Tim

To: zonder who wrote (2595)	12/12/2002 7:04:30 PM
From: Machaon	Respond to of 3959

<< How do you defend a city from a nuke, pray tell??? >> When Americans take into account how brutal and inhuman the Japanese were, during the war, to civilians in ALL of the cities that they conquered, and how much the Japanese public turned out in parades to glorify their conquering heroes, most Americans could really give a rat's ass about how the Japanese defended their cities from an atomic bomb. The reality was: End the war, stop the Japanese brutality, get American fathers back to their children.