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To: Cogito who wrote (61560)	4/24/2008 3:50:53 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542197

As you may have seen in my recent response to ManyMoose Haven't seen it yet, I'm several hundred posts behind, but I jump ahead for posts directly to me. Over half a million Japanese civilians died, but it could have been a lot more with an invasion. Esp. because the Japanese had apparently planned to fight for every inch. Tokyo could have become Stalingrad (except quicker because we had so much more force). The Japanese had handed out obsolete rifles and even spears to civilians instructing them to try to kill an American soldier before they where themselves killed, and their soldiers often fought to the death. We could have taken their cities block by bloody block. And if your not just talking about forgoing the nuclear bombings but forgoing all bombings, than the invasion might have been even tougher because Japan would have been less devastated. And its not as if all the civilians killed where killed by bombing. Clearly a majority where, but going forward they faced starvation from the US submarine action against Japanese shipping.