Bombs dropped on Japan saved millions of lives

[AProudLefty]

Yes it was very unholy but what do you suggest that Eisenhower would have done?

Oops my apologies. I got confused between President Eisenhower and Truman. Forgive me.

[AProudLefty]

Well now, if that isn't a crock of shit if I ever heard one. What an ass. Genocide as a perceived preventative measure is about as unholy a thought as possible. Hopefully, you don't claim to be a Christian saying that.

Oops my apologies. I got confused between President Eisenhower and Truman. Forgive me.

[Anvil Kasseri]

A city full of civilians is not a military target. As is often the case the civilians likely had little hand in what their government and military did.

Hiroshima was a huge military port with tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers awaiting deployment to resist our invasion, and was the military headquarters in charge of repelling that invasion.

Kokura Arsenal was a massive (4100 feet by 2000 feet) arms production complex.

[AProudLefty]

Pearl Harbor was a mistake.

[Charoite]

What genocide? The one Japan was committing that the A-bombs were intended to help stop?

Get bent, supposed noob.

gen·o·cide
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noun
noun: genocide; plural noun: genocides

the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
"a campaign of genocide"

146,000 in one and 80,000 the other.

If this is proper retaliation than what can we complain about 9/11. We probably equivocally Pearl Harbored the middle east many times over.

[Into the Night]

Actually, the war was pretty much won even before the atomic bombs were dropped. It was not a necessary evil, it was yet another war crime America committed during WWII.

Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not war crimes, dumbass.

[Charoite]

Oops my apologies. I got confused between President Eisenhower and Truman. Forgive me.

I wasn't complaining to you. It's the one with unholy thoughts, Earl. When I wrote it no other post was here, when it posted others appeared.

[Anvil Kasseri]

the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

You might want to note the difference between genocide and a crime against humanity (although neither term applies to our use of the A-bombs).

146,000 in one and 80,000 the other.

Those were wartime strikes against military targets.

If this is proper retaliation than what can we complain about 9/11. We probably equivocally Pearl Harbored the middle east many times over.

The World Trade Center was a crime against humanity. Civilians were directly targeted.

[AProudLefty]

I wasn't complaining to you. It's the one with unholy thoughts, Earl. When I wrote it no other post was here, when it posted others appeared.

That's okay. I was just setting history straight. Starting wars is unholy and the Japaneses did it.

Wars are unholy, period.

[Charoite]

Yes it was very unholy but what do you suggest that Eisenhower would have done?

Necessary evil our not, it takes a real bastard to chant it like a heroic act. That's my point to Earl.

[Earl]

I wasn't complaining to you. It's the one with unholy thoughts, Earl. When I wrote it no other post was here, when it posted others appeared.

Take a hike, cabron.

[Earl]

You might want to note the difference between genocide and a crime against humanity (although neither term applies to our use of the A-bombs).



Those were wartime strikes against military targets.



The World Trade Center was a crime against humanity. Civilians were directly targeted.

Pearls before swine but thanks.

[Into the Night]

That's actually very debatable. I don't like what we did, but I think it's necessary. But like I said, it's debatable.

It's not even debatable. True, Japan was losing, but the cost of invading the Japanese islands would've have a far greater death toll on both sides. It is best to end the war as quickly as possible. The Bombs did just that.

[AProudLefty]

It's not even debatable. True, Japan was losing, but the cost of invading the Japanese islands would've have a far greater death toll on both sides. It is best to end the war as quickly as possible. The Bombs did just that.

Wouldn't it be better to bomb two military bases?

[Earl]

It's not even debatable. True, Japan was losing, but the cost of invading the Japanese islands would've have a far greater death toll on both sides. It is best to end the war as quickly as possible. The Bombs did just that.

Indeed.

It probably saved my brother's life and hundreds of thousands more American military lives and their descendants.