[1stFreedom]

>>As the grandson of a Pacific War Veteran, let me be the first to say: you're an [expletive deleted] idiot.

I'm sure there are many former residents of Nagasaki and Hiroshima who would call you the same -- cept they died in the blasts.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And there are today many Japanese who are damned glad the war ended when it did, otherwise they would never have lived to see 1946. I lived in Japan in the 1950s and got to know many of them. Unless you have firsthand information on the subject, the kindest word for your rant would be "revisionist."

[A Jovial Cad]

I'm sure there are many former residents of Nagasaki and Hiroshima who would call you the same

Can't really say I care what they would say about me: their country started the war. Mine ended it.

cept they died in the blasts

Good. Their deaths were part and parcel of the bargain they accepted when they acquiesced to the fascist leadership that led them into a war of conquest in the Pacific, and commenced, incidentally, with a sneak attack on our country.

And, beyond all that happy horsecrap, to the extent that their deaths afforded my grandfather the opportunity to live--to avoid his inevitable participation in Operation "Olympic" and "Coronet"--I say I'm quite delighted by the outcome.

Now, get lost you filthy quisling troll.