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Truman is f***ing up!
-Dave Chapelle-Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.Comment
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The obvious question is, why was an invasion necessary? Japan had no capacity to strike outwards. We could have simply continued the blockade, and starved millions of Japanese to death instead. No matter how you look at it, the bombs saved lives.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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My dad too would have probably been among the casualties. He was with the infantry, and his unit was one of the ones designated to be part of the invasion.Originally posted by lord of the mark
In fact the casualties the US faced in the last battle, at Okinawa, were horrific, where a suicidal defense was put up. It was feared that an invasion of Japan would mean massive casualties, among American troops, Japanese troops, and Japanese civilians.
Among the American troops who would have been killed would likely have been my father, who was trained as a naval artillery spotter for the invasion.
What we've learned since is that the Japanese had deduced where the landings were going to be. They were devising new weapons and tactics to use -- underwater kamikazis and what not. It would have been one bloody battle.
No apoligies for Hiroshima....
I'm not so sure about Nakasaki though.
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A) A hypothetical Soviet invasion would've been much worse and the aftermath much worse for Japan
B) They'd rather forget, so why dredge it up again?
C) Who's really crying out for an apology? It's not really the Japanese because whenver they gripe out this they get hit by cries of "Najing", "Korean colonialism", "Bataan", "Pearl Harbor", "Comfort Women", etc.If you look around and think everyone else is an *******, you're the *******.Comment
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They're all gone. Krazyhorse, Jon, Last Conformist, Ramo...any physicists around?Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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I'm a physicist
THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTFComment
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Re: 61 years yesterday, and still no apology.
What's disgusting is you calling something discusting.Originally posted by Spec
Yep well, 61 years yesterday since Hiroshima and still no apology from the US. Even though Japan has apologised to China twice atleast for the atrocities against them, the US still haven't apologised.
Discusting imo. These millions of people did not diserve to die. Hiroshima nor Nagazaki.
Spec.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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Re: Re: 61 years yesterday, and still no apology.
Sorry if english is not my first language. Let me see you trying to write in french. Oops...you cant.Originally posted by SlowwHand
What's disgusting is you calling something discusting.
Spec.-Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.Comment
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Didnt the japs have a plan to use uranium bombs dropped from planes launched via subs against the US west coast in august of 1945?Comment
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What? No. They didn't have anything close to uranium bombs in August of 1945.Comment
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The uranium was due to arrive on a U-boat from germany. But made an about-face after the surrendur.Originally posted by Kuciwalker
What? No. They didn't have anything close to uranium bombs in August of 1945.
The plan was in discussion stage. I just watch a showed today about it on HC
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Hey, aren't you supposed to be dead?"You're the biggest user of hindsight that I've ever known. Your favorite team, in any sport, is the one that just won. If you were a woman, you'd likely be a slut." - Slowwhand, to Imran
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FG,
Did you meet teh Reagan onthe other side?"Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy CarterComment
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OTOH, we are still waiting for Japan to apologise for killing and maiming tens of millions during WWII.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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