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Skriven 2005-12-03 13:01:38 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
     Kommentar till en text av Paul Sanders (3:633/104)
Ärende: Sociopaths!
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02 Dec 05 16:11, Paul Sanders wrote to FRANK SCHEIDT:


 MVDV>>> My guess is that the pilots of the bombers who dropped the bombs
 MVDV>>> on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not know anyone in those cities
 MVDV>>> either...

 FS>> That was war and those heroes were bombing military targets.  The
 FS>> terrorists who killed the innocent people of the Twin Towers were
 FS>> simply murderers.  See the difference now??

 PS> Just what were the military targets in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ?

"This weapon is to be used against Japan between now and August 10th. I
have told the Sec. of War, Mr. Stimson, to use it so that military
objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and
children. Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic,
we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop that
terrible bomb on the old capital or the new.

He and I are in accord. The target will be a purely military one and we
will issue a warning statement asking the Japs to surrender and save
lives. I'm sure they will not do that, but we will have given them the
chance. It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd or
Stalin's did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most
terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful..."

    Truman quoted in Robert H. Ferrell, Off the Record: The Private Papers
of Harry S. Truman (New York: Harper and Row, 1980) pp. 55-56. Truman's
writings are in the public domain.

I believe that Japan had military troops, Naval vessels, plus several
heavy equipment and munnitions plants in the area.


Roy
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