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To: Constant Reader who wrote (107267)	8/7/2005 12:18:51 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Why do you think I am making judgments about others? I simply posted a book review without comment, that someone else wrote. War is horrible. I don't feel like doing a web search for atrocities by American troops, although I am sure I could find them. I do remember the stories about American atrocities in Vietnam, though, because I was old enough then to read about them. I think there are probably atrocities in every war, on every side. What I object to is knee-jerk patriotic American denial that American soldiers also commit atrocities, and/or the insinuation that it is an improper subject for discussion here. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are different from battle deaths of all sorts because they represent the deliberate, targeted destruction by the U.S. of cities full of civilians, not soldiers. Americans certainly took offense when about 3,000 of our citizens recently died from airplane bombs. Imagine a quarter of a million of our men, women and children dying like those citizens of Japan! The fact that there were atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers against the Chinese is irrelevant to a discussion of civilian deaths by nuclear bomb, or the book review about atrocities by American soldiers against Japanese soldiers, in my opinion.