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To: ManyMoose who wrote (61545)	4/24/2008 3:20:01 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542126

>>So you would trade killing 60-120 thousand innocent enemy civilians for an equal or larger number of our own troops dead on the invasion, and maybe ten times that number of innocent enemy civilians to boot? << MM - I don't think you can accurately determine what the numbers of casualties on either side would have been in either case. But there were far more than 120,000 innocent civilians killed in the firebombings of the major cities of Japan and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Overall, Japan lost more than 580,000 civilians in WWII. As I said, it's not a completely black and white issue. - Allen