[Mr. Silverback]

Just a little added note: The revenge killings the Japanese carried out in China after the Doolittle raid and the deaths in Nanking each are greater than the number of people killed by Little Boy and Fat Man.

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[aposiopetic]

Congratulations on your op-ed, and thanks for posting this. The horror of what happened and what might have happened serves as a reminder to us to be strong so we can deter adventurism such as that in which Japan was engaged for years and which finally brought us into the war.

[ncountylee]

Thanks Harry!

[cartoonistx]

[Rodentking]

WARNING - If you do not like the way we finish wars, do not start one with us.

Uncle Sam and his Misguided Children

[Big Red Clay]

I have my own reasons for supporting the use of atomic weapons against Japan. My dad (who passed away three weeks ago last Wednesday) served on a Navy LST and would have participated in the invasion of Japan. Judging from all I had read, there was a pretty good chance he would have not made it past his 22nd birthday if he had done so. The libs who whine about dropping the bomb can kiss my a$$. No Hiroshima and Nagasaki= No Big Red Clay. to quote Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide" - "Drop that motherf---er, twice!"

[ex-snook]

Thanks Harry Truman.

[k2blader]

Excellent work.

[Mack the knife]

If you want to talk numbers, remember this from "Why Truman Dropped the Bomb", Weekly Standard, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/894mnyyl.asp?pg=1


" This brings us to another aspect of history that now very belatedly has entered the controversy. Several American historians led by Robert Newman have insisted vigorously that any assessment of the end of the Pacific war must include the horrifying consequences of each continued day of the war for the Asian populations trapped within Japan's conquests. Newman calculates that between a quarter million and 400,000 Asians, overwhelmingly noncombatants, were dying each month the war continued. Newman et al. challenge whether an assessment of Truman's decision can highlight only the deaths of noncombatant civilians in the aggressor nation while ignoring much larger death tolls among noncombatant civilians in the victim nations."

[185JHP]

The Japanese deserved the two bombs.