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To: dalereed
"Absolutely, FDR negotiated the attack on Pearl to get us into the war and end the depression."

Where ever did you get such a retarded theory as that?

Oh yeah, FDR "negotiated" the destruction of the entire pacific fleet to get us IN to the war. LMAO!

I suppose that later, the Japs asked us to nuke them so they could get out of it?

101 posted on 11/22/2008 5:39:11 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary
I suppose that later, the Japs asked us to nuke them so they could get out of it?

Not quite, though there were indeed Japanese militarists of the *Big Six* who hoped that the atom bombing of Japan's cities would inspire massive waves of suicide attacks that would increase US casualties to unacceptable levels. After FDR died, US casualties in the Pacific were running around 1000 per day. They were gambling that the number of US *superbombs* was limited, with one more *Fat Man* type plutonium device of the type that destroyed Nagasaki available for US use in August, and four or five more in September. By the end of the year, it was expected that circa 20 would have been made available for U.S. tactical, as well as strategic bombing purposes.

If you haven't read the book The Last Mission: The Secret History of World War II's Final Battle, you really ought to.

http://home.netcom.com/~jb29miss/index.html

178 posted on 11/24/2008 1:23:24 PM PST by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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