Hiroshima, 60 years ago today — Page 2

lol.....papa I give up........I guess you can justify burning thousands of innocent civilians....all those children with guns, right?
LOL.......you really don't get it......and I won't waste anymore of my time. Apparently you can justify anything.......so be it. You have to live with yourself, not I.....and thank God for that.

Play by yourself........

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Updated On: 8/7/05 at 10:02 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050807/ap_on_re_us/us_hiroshima

Never Again!

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that boy specifically? i'm not sure, but his letters are available online so you could peruse them for a reference. to preserve the liberty of the united states? i'm betting yeah, perhaps with great sadness, but yep.

but ask the relatives of the 300,000 killed by the japanese during the three month long rape of nanjing if it was worth it. ask the relatives of the 100,000+ allied prisoners of war who were to have been slaughtered by the japanese as a response to an invasion if it was worth it. ask the relatives of the 10,000 killed on the bataan death march if they thought it was worth it. ask the relatives of the 490,000+ killed by japan's unit 731 chemical and biological warfare weapons research unit if they thought it was worth it.

even after two atomic bombs the japanese were prepared to fight on. it took the soviet attack on manchuria to finally convince them to surrender. that coupled with the possibility that america had more atomic bombs to rain down on them finally convinced them. that was exactly why the atomic bombs were described by admiral mitsumasa yonai, who had been premier in 1940 and the japanese navy minister at the time, as a "gift from heaven". marquis koichi kido, the emperor's privy seal said, "we of the peace party were assisted by the atomic bomb in our endeavor to end the war".

the peace party.

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sure there were elements within the gov't that wanted to surrender, as the quoites i chose show, but as the attempted coup showed after their decision to surrender they did not represent all of the voices of power. nor would their voices have been loud enough to shout down the military leaders wiithout the atomic bombs and the soviet invasion. nor were they willing to give up shintoism which had by then been transformed into a warlike religion much like the radical islam that is preached in too many madrassas. it was only 8 weeks earlier that 200,000 japanese and 20,000 amerians died at okinawa as a result of the japanese bushido code of death before dishonor. how many would have died in an invasion? what would the result of a successful coup had there not beeen the violent and awful lessons of hiroshima and nagasaki and manchuria?

as far as jefferson, if faced with the same decision as truman, i am confident we'd have seen the same result.

thhere are those who here obviously feel that there is never any justification for using atomic weapons. i disagree.

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