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To: Neocon who wrote (26377)	4/21/2004 4:12:30 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Dwight Eisenhower: " Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary. ... I thought our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of "face"."

To: Neocon who wrote (26377)	4/21/2004 4:27:16 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

General Curtis LeMay (who pioneered the precision bombing of Germany and Japan, and later headed the Strategic Air Command and served as Air Force chief of staff): "The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all." isreview.org Tom

To: Neocon who wrote (26377)	4/21/2004 4:28:38 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Admiral William D. Leahy (Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Truman): "It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan."