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To: Thomas M. who wrote (2635)	12/17/2002 5:32:35 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 3959

Yet, we still fried 200,000 innocent civilians Not that its significant to the argument but when your accusing it pays to be accurate. The actual total is closer to (but more then) half of that. But it doesn't effect your point if you substitute 120k or whatever... before the surrender could work its way through the political system. Before they surrender they haven't surrendered. The war was total war. If we didn't kill them with the A-bombs we would have been killing them with incendiaries (which killed a lot more Japanese civilians then the A-bombs did), or they would have been killed by invading Americans or Russians or they would have died from starvation brought about by the bombing and blockade. Would you say then that we should not have bombed at all, that we should have stopped the blockade, not invaded, and told the Soviet army to stop attacking (if they would even listen)? If no then Japanese were going to die in large numbers. If yes then your saying we should have called the war off on the hope that Japan would surrender without them actual surrendering. Tim