tragic nucleocaust in pictures- a grim reminder of what happens when a nuke which is tiny compared to those 'amerika' and other ailing countries are brandishing at each other today.....
(which holocaust killed more innocent people nazi, al-queda, or ...'amerikan'.., I wonder...I would bet there's no comparison....)
DaveS
tragic nucleocaust in pictures- a grim reminder of what happens when a nuke which is tiny compared to those 'amerika' and other ailing countries are brandishing at each other today.....
(which holocaust killed more innocent people nazi, al-queda, or ...'amerikan'.., I wonder...I would bet there's no comparison....)
DaveS
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I hope they do remember
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Originally posted by Kara Tyson:
That bomb saved thousands (if not millions) of lives.
but it COST hundreds of thousands (if not even more miillions), of lives (I'm not at all convinced of this "millions" figure, anyway, given what I've read.) As well as billions of dollars in rebuilding (for japan, you might say-- but it unquestionably came back to 'us', too- in fact 'we' actually did - had to, really-- help some with such!)
DEFINITELY not a cost-effective solution; in facr the antithesis of such! (especially when hidden costs are considered.
I do believe, though, that the 'leaders' of this country's 'war effort' did not realize how brutal these bombs would be. I they had, don't you think to give japan a "demonstration" in a less populated but perhaps strategically important (for esample, a naval harbor) whould have been seen as sufficient?
DaveS
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where were you in 1945? how many of your family gave there lives to protect this country?
if any did,you would know the answer to why ...go shack your rattle elsewhere.....gary.
thats right,my addres is on here..
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In 1969, my dad died from complications suffered as a result of cleaning up both those places after WWII was declared over. He didn't come home until December 22, 1945 months after many of the other enlisted.
America Love it or Leave it.
[This message has been edited by Svengali Eyes (edited 09 August 2005).]
I completely laugh out loud at people that criticize the government for dropping the bombs. The freaking freedom of the world was at stake for one. Secondly, we were going to have to invade Japan which would've been 100 times more gruesome than D-day ever was. And the fact is most of those same people in Japan would've died with a US invasion. We saved AMERICAN lives, and that was the point. They came after us.
And for bleeding hearts like Dave, how can you sit there and talk about the horrible bombs, yet not ever mention that the Japs killed 12 million Chinese people with their push west to meet up with the Nazi push east in Asia. How can you not mention that???????
There were 52 million people directly killed during WWII. The USA only lost about 250,000, but it could've been a lot worse if we didn't have some technology on our side.
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The Japanese would have never given up.
What is amazing is that fewer people died at Pearl Harbor (which was a military target) than died at the WTC (which was civilian) and we waited, waited, waited before responding.
Ditto Labrat, 24Bit, and Kara.
If not you and me would be speaking japenese.
2020 vision is not a choice here.
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