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I have empathy for those who were forced to suffer because of the Japanese refusal to suffer...but to say... The bombs did not save lives and were a crime against humanity, as the Catholic Church asserts....I disagree with. As many will attest here, as many as who died in the blast would have died in the invasion, fathers and brothers, mothers, children from both sides. Unlike many on this thread who are jovial, I am not. It was a horrific decision to make in a horrific war. I hate war, the pain and death it brings. In this instance I do believe that noting what WOULD have happened absent use of the weapon, there was very little choice....What a terrible decision to have to make if you were the President, but I trust his decision was the right decision. Please try and separate those on this thread who take joy out of the pain and death the bomb caused from those who while they believe it was ultimately the right thing to do also understand the horror of what the weapons of war thrust on people.

You said it better than I ever could. Pope John Paul did not single this attack out by itself. His condemnation is for war entirely which is seconded by many combat veterans. War is death and ruin.