"Reality_Check©" wrote in news:6epu9uF8acakU1
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>> "_ Prof. Jonez _" wrote in
>>> Deadrat wrote:
>>>> "_ Prof. Jonez _" wrote in
>>>>> Deadrat wrote:
>>>>>> "_ Prof. Jonez _" wrote
>>>>>>> David Hartung wrote:
>>>>>>>> Reality_Check© wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>> _ Prof. Jonez _ wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gray Ghost wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And in so doing saved the lives of many more people by
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> forcing the Japanese out of the war.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Complte BULLSHIT apologia.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> So it would be ok for another nation to nuke a major U$
>>>>>>>>>>>>> city, if they believed it would "save more lives" from their
>>>>>>>>>>>>> point of view, eh numbnuts?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Your absence of morality is repugnant. May your family be
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the first to suffer from it.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Truman, using the information he had available at the time,
>>>>>>>>>>>> determined that the use of nuclear weapons would bring the
>>>>>>>>>>>> War to an end without the necessity of invading the Japanese
>>>>>>>>>>>> Home Islands.
>>>>>>>>>>> So it was done for expedience, easier for the U$$A.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Given the record of the war, it is likely that doing so not
>>>>>>>>>>>> only saved thousands of American lives, but also Japanese
>>>>>>>>>>>> lives. Utterly bullshit speculation.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Why is this a bad thing?
>>>>>>>>>>> If deliberately dropping NUCLEAR BOMBS upon civilian
>>>>>>>>>>> population centers -- TWICE --
>>>>>>>>>>> killing 100,000+ innocent civilians, women and children in the
>>>>>>>>>>> process isn't a "bad thing"
>>>>>>>>>>> in your world, then you really should be in the dock ahead of
>>>>>>>>>>> Karadzic, you repugnant
>>>>>>>>>>> piece of crap.
>>>>>>>>>> Better we killed millions of Japanese men women and children
>>>>>>>>>> with M1's and naval bombardment than killed a few tens of
>>>>>>>>>> thousands with two nukes.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Only someone as depraved and perverted of spirit as you would do
>>>>>>>>> either.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What would have been thre proper solution then?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One thing is for certain, it would NOT have entailed dropping
>>>>>>> NUCLEAR BOMBS on CIVILIAN population centers ... TWICE!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It would have?
>>>>>
>>>>> I just don't know how I'd get by without you spell checking and
>>>>> proof reading every one of my posts --
>>>>
>>>> I don't know how you get by at all. And it's "without your*r* spell
>>>> checking and proof reading every one of my posts...."
>>>>>
>>>>> Corrected: One thing is for certain, it would NOT have entailed
>>>>> dropping NUCLEAR BOMBS on CIVILIAN population centers ... TWICE!
>>>>
>>>> What would it have entailed? Your fans -- and you know I'm one -- want
>>>> to know.
>>>
>>> Utterly irrelevant to the immorality of nuking civilian population
>>> centers.
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>> True. You've told us where the moral center isn't. Where *does* it lie?
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> Somewhere to the left of dropping NUCLEAR BOMBS on CIVILIANS ... no doubt.
How about if we just drop incendiaries on thier city and start a firestorm as
we did in Tokyo? Killed more people than the Hiroshima bomb. Killed almost
twice as many as the Nagasaki bomb?
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> How many civilians would Jesus nuke?
>
Since I doubt you are a Christian that is a pointless question.
Frank |