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Skriven 2005-08-15 22:29:00 av THURSTON ACKERMAN (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av VERN HUMPHREY
Ärende: atomic bomb question
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VH>EH> VH> It's hard to imagine how brutal and barbaric they were.  They actual
VH>EH> VH> ate the hearts of shot-down American pilots on Chichi Jima (and Geor
VH>EH> VH> Bush, Sr., barely escaped that -- he was shot down, but bailed out a
VH>EH> VH> sea and was picked up by a sub.)

VH>EH>And we have self-righteous idiots claiming that we were the bad guys for
VH>EH>dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

VH>Interestingly enough, on a religious forum, this was hotly debated.
VH>Finally someone started a new thread -- "Tell me what you would do and
VH>what the outcome would be."

VH>No one was able to offer a course of action that did not result in at
VH>least an order of magnitude more deaths!

On other forums I heard the fire bombings of Tokeo, et al, probably
was an order of magnitude more; especially that so many more died
more slowly and in dreadful agonies. (But I was slogging my way
up the Pacific chain of islands, so I have to accept the citations
by others this in this instance 8-(

VH>EH> VH> On Luzon, they herded American POWs into a bunker and poured in gaso
VH>EH> VH> rather than allow them to be rescued.

VH>EH>I watched a program on History channel "History v. Hollywood" about "The
VH>EH>Raid" and they interviewed a guy that lived in a village not far from the
VH>EH>and he told of how he watched in horror as they burned the American POWs

VH>And this is only a single, tiny incident in a horrible tapistry of
VH>brutality.  The Japanese were truly barbarians.

VH>EH> VH> And a lot of Americans think "If we hadn't invaded them, they wouldn
VH>EH> VH> be killing us."

VH>EH>How some can be so naive is amazing.

VH>Kind of like, "If you hadn't stepped over that log, there wouldn't have
VH>been a rattlesnake on the other side."

Stay young, OldAck.

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