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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (135944)	6/7/2004 11:56:49 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<If it was so apparent that Japan was defeated before those bombs were dropped, why didn't they?>>> Let me guess. Nobody wanted to give the bad news to the boss. Hirohito. They had their secret weapon,the Kamakazi, like Hitler had the V-1 and V-2. The US dont have that problem if GWB watches the news. He is losing the war, losing the election, losing Allies, losing face, losing Tenet. If there wasn't bad news, there would be no news at all. Perhaps it is time to surrender but who do we surrender to? Saddam?, Zawari?, Al Sadr? OBL ? The UN? Sig

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (135944)	6/8/2004 3:29:42 AM
From: Dr. Id	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

There's something very simple the Japanese Government could have done to avoid having those atomic bombs dropped on Japan. Surrenedered before they were dropped. If it was so apparent that Japan was defeated before those bombs were dropped, why didn't they? According to Gore Vidal in "Dreaming War: Blood For Oil and the Bush-Cheney Junta": The second great myth was that Harry Truman, FDR's successor, dropped his two atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because he feared that a million American lives would be lost in an invasion (that was the lie he told at the time). Admiral Nimitz, on the spot in the Pacific, and General Eisenhower, brooding elsewhere, disagreed: the Japanese had already lost the war, they said. No nuclear bombs, no invasion was needed; besides, the Japanese had been trying to surrender since the May 1945 devastation of \| Tokyo by U.S. B-29 bombers.