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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SecularBull who wrote (438276)	8/5/2003 10:32:05 AM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The main point seems to be: in a complex and brutal world, the alternatives were worse.

To: SecularBull who wrote (438276)	8/5/2003 11:15:45 AM
From: JDN	Respond to of 769670

I had a brother on Okinawa who was wounded. Had another on a ship ready to invade Japan. So I am very familiar with what was going on. As the author says, the bomb saved far more lives then the alternative. We actually strengthened the Emperors hand making it POSSIBLE for him to FORCE the Japanese military to surrender. Remember their code was NO SURRENDER--EVER. The only prisoners we ever took on most of the islands were those wounded and so shell struck they couldnt even kill themselves let alone fight. jdn

To: SecularBull who wrote (438276)	8/5/2003 11:41:53 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Well written and very rational. I just have a hard time believing it appeared in the NY times. LOL..... Come On what the joke?????

To: SecularBull who wrote (438276)	8/5/2003 11:58:21 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"Without the atomic bombings, Japan would have continued fighting by inertia. This would have meant more firebombing of Japanese cities..." So our war criminals had only two choices? The most desirable according to the author, and the one he defends. is the war crime of murdering the entire civilian population of Nagasaki and Hiroshima with WMD (Some estimate the casualties exceeded 100,000--mostly women, children and old men. The reason the author attempts to justify this war crime is because he feels American leaders would have been forced to commit the even more atrocious and deadly war crime of murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians with illegal firebombings of Japanese cities. The logic of this author is a crime in itself. The bombing of Japanese civilians with WMD was a war crime and any attempt to defend this atrocity by misguided patriots only adds to to the crime. We can add to this war crime the fire bombing of Dresden where the allies murdered over 100,000 civilians in a 24hr period by igniting Mg strips to produce a fire bomb. There were horrible atrocities committed on both sides in WWII but only the Germans were forced to face their crimes.