Hiroshima, 6 August 1945

Jack said:
:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

Translation: 'OK. I'm a Deadbeat. What can I say?'.
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Show me, Jack, where I have made a comment one way or the other about the necessity of using nuclear weapons on Japan. When you're done finding that non-existent post(s), then you can show me where I posted anything, one way or the other, about your Syrian red herring. I'll be over here crocheting a queen size afghan which I'll finish before you do. lol
 
christiefan915 said:
It means that people who had no families or friends who got tortured or died in wars find it a lot easier to justify attacks like Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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My father was in the Philippines when the prisoners (what was left of them) were rescued from the Bataan Death March. They all said the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified. Especially when they saw fellow soldiers collapse from exhaustion and when they raise their heads to get some air, they're shot in the face. Those killers were civilians once, just as those they killed.
 
Jack said:
:) It's a Politics Forum, we're all here to voice our opinions. You support Deadbeats and being a Doormat. I support defending America and Western Values. (like NOT gassing women and children with Internationally Banned Chemical Weapons)
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Armchair Warriors are always so brave.
 
christiefan915 said:
"...the rationale for the atomic bombings has come to rest on a single colossal fabrication, which has gained surprising currency — that they were necessary in order to save a half-million or more American lives. These, supposedly, are the lives that would have been lost in the planned invasion of Kyushu in December, then in the all-out invasion of Honshu the next year, if that had been needed. But the worst-case scenario for a full-scale invasion of the Japanese home islands was forty-six thousand American lives lost.7

The ridiculously inflated figure of a half-million for the potential death toll — nearly twice the total of US dead in all theaters in the Second World War — is now routinely repeated in high-school and college textbooks and bandied about by ignorant commentators. Unsurprisingly the prize for sheer fatuousness on this score goes to President George H.W. Bush, who claimed in 1991 that dropping the bomb "spared millions of American lives."8

[url]https://mises.org/library/harry-truman-and-atomic-bomb
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7,000 died over a fucking island. How many would die on Japanese soil?

"The Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. In some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II, it's believed that all but 200 or so of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, as were almost 7,000 Marines."
https://findanyanswer.com/how-many-us-soldiers-died-on-iwo-jima
 
christiefan915 said:
"...the rationale for the atomic bombings has come to rest on a single colossal fabrication, which has gained surprising currency — that they were necessary in order to save a half-million or more American lives. These, supposedly, are the lives that would have been lost in the planned invasion of Kyushu in December, then in the all-out invasion of Honshu the next year, if that had been needed. But the worst-case scenario for a full-scale invasion of the Japanese home islands was forty-six thousand American lives lost.7

The ridiculously inflated figure of a half-million for the potential death toll — nearly twice the total of US dead in all theaters in the Second World War — is now routinely repeated in high-school and college textbooks and bandied about by ignorant commentators. Unsurprisingly the prize for sheer fatuousness on this score goes to President George H.W. Bush, who claimed in 1991 that dropping the bomb "spared millions of American lives."8

[url]https://mises.org/library/harry-truman-and-atomic-bomb
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7,000 died over a fucking island. How many would die on Japanese soil?

"The Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. In some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II, it's believed that all but 200 or so of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, as were almost 7,000 Marines."
https://findanyanswer.com/how-many-us-soldiers-died-on-iwo-jima
 
Damocles said:
Each time I see the title I keep wondering... How is this a current event? But, meh... I'll leave it be.
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Thanks for keeping it since it is a topic applicable to today.

Since the OP included the link "Anniversary", that also makes it current.
Cypress said:
On the one hand, the argument can be made that it was morally reprehensible, but it was the least bad of a range of bad options.

Hiroshima marks 76th anniversary of US atomic bombing

https://apnews.com/article/2020-tok...mic-bombings-a58423a31cc48ce49f142f3cc71eeffe
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On the flipside, it could be argued it crossed a line which should never be crossed.
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fuck that war - it was unwanted by the Vietnamese people.
it was to prop up a leftover corrupt colonial government left by France

be proud of one's service -but not the war itself
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Show me, Jack, where I have made a comment one way or the other about the necessity of using nuclear weapons on Japan. When you're done finding that non-existent post(s), then you can show me where I posted anything, one way or the other, about your Syrian red herring. I'll be over here crocheting a queen size afghan which I'll finish before you do. lol
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Translation; 'I have a vagina, I'm like a child, I don't make decisions'.

Yes. There's a reason for the expression 'Women and Children'.
 
RB 60 said:
My father was in the Philippines when the prisoners (what was left of them) were rescued from the Bataan Death March. They all said the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified. Especially when they saw fellow soldiers collapse from exhaustion and when they raise their heads to get some air, they're shot in the face. Those killers were civilians once, just as those they killed.
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My post referred to what people are saying today, not the actual victims of war crimes.
 
Jack said:
Translation; 'I have a vagina, I'm like a child, I don't make decisions'.

Yes. There's a reason for the expression 'Women and Children'.
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I’m proud to have a vagina and having four children has a great deal to do with my being a pacifist.
 
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