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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (217620)	2/11/2007 1:06:40 AM
From: mistermj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Whoa...wait a minute. What's this "WE" stuff? Your self loathing "blame America first" line of crap doesn't speak for the majority of Americans...not by a long shot. I doubt you speak for any meaningful majority anywhere on anything...including the morality of using nukes on the Japanese. I suggest you take your first global fact finding surveys to Nanking.

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (217620)	2/11/2007 7:43:17 AM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<We here in the USA >> Don't you live in France?

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (217620)	2/11/2007 6:17:13 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

In short, we in the US don't have lessons to give anybody about high moral ground. Nuclear non-proliferation isn't about "moral high ground," it's about stopping the proliferation of weapons whose use is simply unthinkable and cannot be allowed. Nobody in the US nuclear development program had any idea how devastating these weapons were when they were first deployed. Now we know better, and nobody but us, and the Japanese, have this first hand knowledge. Yes, the genie is out of the bottle, yes, it will be hard to get rid of the technology, but that's no reason to stop trying. The only people who care about nuclear parity are the same king of people who must have the biggest and best of status symbols in order to feel powerful, whether it's a personal jet or a personal limousine or any other "toy" for their inflated egos. These things are not toys and they are not status symbols. Having grown up when Mutually Assured Destruction was public policy, and seen how determined enlightened people, especially enlightened people on the Left, were to get rid of nuclear weapons, it astonishes me that you seem to wink at Iran's nuclear ambitions, as if it were normal and acceptable behavior.