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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (23236)	10/29/2004 9:57:08 PM
From: Sojourner Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Overall the US has done more help and free people more than any other nation. Unfortunately tough decisions like that had to be made. That is were we are now, having to make tough decisions, and I really get tired of naysayers and Monday morning quarterbacks.

To: Wayners who wrote (23236)	10/29/2004 10:36:39 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27181

IMHO, neither one of the atom bombs was necessary. Japan was already defeated and her surrender was just a matter of time. Unfortunately for the Japanese, the Americans believed them to be sub-humans and also wanted to "blackmail" the USSR and to test the plutonium bomb (the one dropped on Nagasaki was a plutonium bomb; the one dropped on Hiroshima was a uranium bomb). Klaus Fuchs, a German-born atom scientist who had worked on the atom bomb in America passed atom secrets to the Soviets (who were thus enabled to produce their own atom bomb to level the playing) because he thought it was iniquitous for America to have the monopoly on the atom bomb and scare the daylights out of others. In 1956, Mao Tze-Tung of Red China (or "Yellow Peril") decided to end America's nuclear blackmail and China succeeded in making her own atom bomb and hydrogen bomb in 1964. Had America not banished a couple of extremely brilliant Chinese scientists to China, China might not have been able to produce her own nuclear weapons soon enough. (Ditto remarks for China's space program.) Americans were/are quite foolish, after all! Now in Asia besides China, Korea, India and Pakistan have nuclear capability. And Iran will most likely be joining the nuclear club soon. Of course, Israel has nuclear capability too! FWIW, some folks believe that America, as a consequence of her nuclear attack on Japan, has incurred negative Karma and so, in all likelihood, America might experience a nuclear attack sooner or later. Of course, America has also helped many countries and has thereby earned positive Karma which will, according to believers, redound to America's credit and benefit in the future. FWIW, Sollog, the self-styled Nostradamus of modern times, predicts that Jerusalem, Rome and Washington will be nuked (not necessarily in that order) in days to come.