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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“If they do not now accept our terms, they can expect a rain of ruin from the air the like never seen on earth” Part of the speech by Harry T. to the Japs following the first atomic bomb drop. They STILL wouldn’t uncle so they got fed bomb number 2! That did the trick!


4 posted on 06/08/2019 1:31:47 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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He might have taken the credit for the ending of that war but the main sticking point was that the Japanese wanted to save the emperor. Mac convinced them to except that and issue terms.
7 posted on 06/08/2019 1:38:24 PM PDT by crz
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