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To: NOW who wrote (42346)	12/2/2003 1:13:56 PM
From: Mike M2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I do not think that the US should be the world's policeman but in the context of WWII the US government had an obligation to use every means at its disposal to annihilate the enemy. BTW far more people died in the battle for Berlin than the death toll from both atomic bombs. The cost of invading the Japanese mainland would have been staggering for both sides. Japanese war atrocities date back to 1931 - the League of Nations tried diplomacy - the US tried economic sanctions. Save some of you sympathy for the victims of the Rape of Nan King , the victims of the Biological weapons UNIT 731 , the POWs who were tortured and killed - the death rate in German pows camps was about 4% but 27% plus in Japanese camps. I think of wounded soldiers bayonetted in their hospital beds. I think of the service men who were beheaded for sport by samari wielding Jap soldiers. I am forever greatful for the extreme sacrifices made by US servicemen and get extremely annoyed with those who condem our tactics during WWII . We lost about 450,000 young men they may be numbers to some but they were fathers, sons, brothers ,husbands and friends to millions. Mike