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To: epicure who wrote (136350)	4/10/2010 4:20:22 PM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541933

You might want to expand your knowledge level and read some history books. I live in a politically center right country, I tested dead center on the political tests. You know where you tested. Perhaps we should have continued fire bombing them and starved them into surrender.

To: epicure who wrote (136350)	4/11/2010 12:04:19 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541933

"Not using nukes in WWII would have been a crime, their use saved millions of lives." We don't know about the number, but we do know many American soldiers (most probably in the tens of thousands) would have died had we gone ahead with the plans to invade Okinawa and then Japan had not the nukes ended the war. What was your father's take on that--if you know? (I certainly know what the VFW felt about it in NJ in the 1950's when they demanded that an English teacher at our high school be fired for teaching "Hiroshima" (by John Hersey)too sympathetically.