Posted on 10/18/2016 2:16:47 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Trump crushes Hillary on Social Media
As everyone knows, history repeats itself, or as the late great Peter Allen sang, “Everything old is new again.”
Once upon a time, Democrat president Harry Truman effectively ended World War II by dropping the first nuclear bombs ever detonated on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on August 6, 1945, resulting in multi-thousands of deaths. It was a decision that promised to end his presidency.
All the political experts—pundits, writers, radio newscasters—agreed that the unassuming former haberdasher who became the unlikely choice of VP in the election of 1944 didn’t have the charisma of the man whose shoes he had stepped into after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died of a stroke just three months after his fourth presidential inauguration, and that Truman’s war-mongering act was not only antithetical to the values of peace-loving Americans who were exhausted by World War II’s profound losses in bodies and blood, but that it would ultimately condemn him to political ignominy.
Harry Truman once said that you could not get rich working for the government, if you were honest. The Clintons have amassed over $250 million during their years of public employment, and want even more. Corrupt Hillary is a lying sick old crook, who accepts bribes and betrays our country. Everything she says and does, or causes to be said or done, must be viewed with the utmost suspicion. Her promises are worthless, unless they enrich her in some way. Her husband is a rapist and a pedophile whom she has actively enabled
Make it three: DIRTY HARRY CALLAHAN.
I am constantly amazed at Mr.Trump’s courage, strength and willingness to take crapola from all sides and still be there standing strong.
God Bless him! He is the only one who can stop this BS and drain that cesspoll in Washington DC.
It's not over until every fraudulent, illegal, fictional, and dead voter has been balanced against the legal votes and counted. I pray that there are enough patriots to outweigh the liars.
Being someone old enough to remember those years with great clarity, I can say that this BS screed is pure fabrication!
There was uniform joy and celebration throughout the former country known as "Amerca" at the thought/knowledge that a couple hundred thousands of those slant-eyed jap scum were incinerated.
There was absolutely no evidence that surrender was even a remote possibility prior to these bomb attacks.
Based on the American casualty rates on Iwo and Okinawa, the invasion of the nip homeland would have resulted in an additional 1/2 million American casualties.
Only when the communist takeover of the American press a couple years later did this BS raise it filthy head...
Really. Not the biggest fan of Truman, but you could have counted at the time the people opposed to Fat Man and Little Boy on one hand.
All the political experts—pundits, writers, radio newscasters—agreed that...Truman’s war-mongering act was not only antithetical to the values of peace-loving Americans who were exhausted by World War II’s profound losses in bodies and blood, but that it would ultimately condemn him to political ignominy.
I doubt it. With the exception of a few pointy-head academic types, Truman's decision to nuke the Japanese was wildly popular in 1945, especially since it brought the war to a close. The guy who wrote this seems to have spent too much time reading Gar Alperovitz.
Even the pro-Soviet Progressives didn't use Hiroshima and Nagasaki to attack Truman.
Truman's problem was more the economy and some scandals. Also he was seen as a petty little man after the larger than life Roosevelt.
After Pearl Harbor, there was only one vote in Congress against declaring war.
Good post Supe. I especially liked one the lines from Harry T’s speech right after the first bomb: “If they do not now accept our terms, they can expect a rain of ruin from the air the likes never seen on Earth”. ‘Rain of Ruin’? Outstanding wording!! But as you know the sneaky Japs still wouldn’t uncle, so Harry fed ‘em another big one! KA-BOOM! There we go! That did the trick!
Which was the same person who was the only one who voted against us getting into WWI, Montana Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin.
Yes this is pure BS. Truman nuking the Japanese was extremely popular at the time.
It was only years later when revisionist history types questioned the use of the atomic bomb.
I couldn’t believe what I read here. An America weary of war opposed a war mongering President Truman’s use of the atomic bomb.b?
I challenge anyone to find any news or opinion pieces from the time which said anything along these lines.
On other local forums, quoting Harry Truman's use of nukes usually silences those noisy Liberals.
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