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Jon Stewart: Truman's a War Criminal for Bombing Hiroshima
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/04/30/stewart-trumans-war-criminal-bombing-hiroshima ^

Posted on 04/30/2009 4:37:54 PM PDT by chessplayer

Although historians have debated the issue for decades, Jon Stewart has no question about this controversial matter: former President Harry S. Truman is a war criminal for dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.


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KEYWORDS: 1945; hiroshima; jonstewart; truman; urlisnotthesource
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To: chessplayer

What can you say about that dope Jon Stewart.If it were Not for President Truman the U.S.Would have had to invade Japan and the cost would have been millions of casualties in U.S.Troops not to mention losses in aircraft and ships.

Secondly if that Bomb was not dropped Stewart and the rest of the U.S.would probably be speaking Japanese.


21 posted on 04/30/2009 5:19:50 PM PDT by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: tsmith130

What Jon Stewart says is significant because he is watched by millions of people who don’t watch a regular news show. These viewers tend to be liberal, and ignorant of their history. He influences people’s world view and the knowledge these viewers think they have of history.

I agree, that Jon Stewart is a (fill in the blank). But he has a platform, he delivers the only news that many people get, and he influences these liberal leaning kids who watch it.


22 posted on 04/30/2009 5:21:34 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: tsmith130
And what Jon Stewart says is significant why?

He is significant in the same way Rush Limbaugh is significant. He is influential to a large voting block.

23 posted on 04/30/2009 5:21:47 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: chessplayer

Torture? Criminal torture? Being made to watch this mtuant would be torture at its worst!! He’s physically and facially repulsive, and has a very prominent gayness to his mannerisms! F*** him!


24 posted on 04/30/2009 5:22:01 PM PDT by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)
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To: tsmith130
And what Jon Stewart says is significant why?

He is significant in the same way Rush Limbaugh is significant. He is influential to a large voting block.

25 posted on 04/30/2009 5:22:08 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: Emmett McCarthy

A big “Thank You Very Much” to your Dad!

F*ck you Jon “Stewart”. If it wasn’t for people like Emmett’s Dad, and millions like him, your parents would have ended up as ash.

Maybe that’s not so bad - Jon “Stewart” would never have been born.


26 posted on 04/30/2009 5:23:33 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Where can I take 'Austrian' lessons?)
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To: chessplayer; Fred Nerks; Beckwith
More Natinalisy Socialist redefinitions of history. Japan NEVER would have become a free natiln, and Mscarthur would have had to deal with guerilla warfare in Japan that would never have gone away.

Japan is a great nation of a free and productive people precisely because becuase Japan and its fascist government was utterly and completely defeated by the dropping of the bombs. It saved untold misery for years to come, and gave the message needed to Russia: " Do not come here!"

So know we get the wet noodle version of Nationalist Socialist history, where the sons and daughters of those who supported a newly retroactively defined evil are made to pay the wages of their ancestors.

Now that IS the Obama ideology. And historic justice IS the calling card of ALL fascist movements.

Anyone doubt now that the Obama Movement is fascist?

Look at what he has done in 100 days, classic fascist markers out of history. Including the overiding of security today for the criminal admission of GITMO terrorists into the USA.

Anyone have doubts about Obama being Fascist now?

Fred and I have been calling Obama fascist since November of 2007. We knew what he was doing in Kenya with the Islamofascist Orange party for whom Obama campaigned as a Senator.No one listened.But define Obama NOW.

I keep harping on this, because we cannot defeat an enemy that is not defined. Define Obama as a fascist, and lets fight him and obliviate his movement!

27 posted on 04/30/2009 5:24:00 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule,derision ,truth. (member NRA)
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To: LottieDah

rules for radical idiots:never let a good ratings sweep go to waste


28 posted on 04/30/2009 5:24:01 PM PDT by databoss (Keep The Change....)
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To: chessplayer
It constantly amazes me that someone hasn't just grabbed this pipsqueak by the ears and corkscrewed him into the turf.

Next to Bill Maher.


29 posted on 04/30/2009 5:24:35 PM PDT by Viking2002 (This tagline for rent.)
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To: chessplayer
Oh good grief. Cue the Pelosi mentality. (I was briefed by FDR on the Manhattan Project but never thought it would be used.) Jon you are a buffoon pandering to your moronic audience.
30 posted on 04/30/2009 5:26:01 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: omega4179

Roosevelt died April 12, 1945.

The first atomic bomb was exploded at Trinity, NM on July 16, 1945.

Harry Truman, the VP, wasn’t told of the Manhattan Project until after FDR’s death.

Trinity (first a-bomb exploded) - July 16, 1945.

Hiroshima - August 6, 1945.

For a fellow who didn’t even know of the atomic bomb before he became president, Truman didn’t let any grass grow under his feet before he used it.

And the mood in the country at that time was such that most Americans heartily approved.


31 posted on 04/30/2009 5:26:37 PM PDT by Ole Okie
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To: chessplayer

More Japanese were killed in the firebombings but that’s beside the point ...Japan killed millions in Nanking then went on to Rangoon and Burma slaughtering civilians where ever they went ... we wanted to end all that. They capitulated right after Nagasaki ....


32 posted on 04/30/2009 5:29:31 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: chessplayer
When we arrived in Tokyo in early 1946, the city was nothing but debris for miles in any direction. The whole city burned to the ground after one week of US fire bombing raids and more than 250,000 Japanese died. We were stunned to see the damage and wondered where the citizens were living. Many of them lived in the subways as there were no houses to be seen anywhere.

It was Truman in charge then too. He did another great thing when he ordered the atom bombing. It halted the need for a huge invasion of the home islands and the projected loss of as many as 1 million US military. Stewart knows nothing about the real history of the period and is a confirmed, liberal idiot.

33 posted on 04/30/2009 5:32:50 PM PDT by Paulus Invictus
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On a side note.. I don’t think Truman knew about “the bomb” until FDR’s death.


34 posted on 04/30/2009 5:33:16 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: chessplayer
But FDR isn`t for firebombing Japanese cities?

Don't you know? People killed by an atomic bomb are deader than people killed by a conventional bomb.

All kidding aside, my person theory is that if the bomb had been dropped on Germany, or if FDR had lived to drop the bomb on Japan, you wouldn't hear a liberal peep on the subject.

35 posted on 04/30/2009 5:35:41 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ve'et-zakhar lo' tishkav mishkevei 'ishah; to`evah hi'.)
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To: chessplayer

That attitude comes from not having to be responsible or own and maintain and believe in deeply held ideas.

It comes from an arrogance supported by group mantras of lib speak. An arrogance that unquestionably believes they are the smartest, most hip and aware as a group; that only they have real fulfilling sex lives; and the big one: that only they are capable of such dark and noble deceptions and could devise the plans of attack and triumph for their ne’er self-probed causes.

The left shows their deep bigotry in the way they cannot accept or believe persons of another country could be clever enough to espouse nor act upon the evil in their hearts - oh, it’s gotta be our fault; it’s gotta be the US’s fault.

And then in a twist of cowardice from deep in their psyche, they then separate themselves from the we that is us and nobly blame that which is them but the them they rose above to look benevolently down on the “misunderstood” of the world. Those they look down upon like pets and protecting them soothes their need for worth and provides their lofty place in their sense of hierarchy.

Kind of like they’re actors with only a handful a memorized plays from high school.


36 posted on 04/30/2009 5:37:39 PM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Agree. A lot of kids listen to Jon Stewart. Sadly, they tend to treat a lot of the gibberish that comes out of his mouth as wisdom. To their way of thinking, if it makes them laugh, it must be smart.

I actually think Stewart wants to be President one day.


37 posted on 04/30/2009 5:37:53 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: chessplayer
FU Jon Stewart and FUBO....I am sitting here with an ashtray made from Nip shells from Munda and New Georgia and a flag in an oak case. My Uncle died there and my cousin died in the May low level B-29 raids over Tokyo. If we had invaded every family in the US would have had a flag in a case in their house.
38 posted on 04/30/2009 5:38:00 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: chessplayer

In an earlier time we could have traded the John Stewarts for the brave POW’s in the Bataan Death March.


39 posted on 04/30/2009 5:38:03 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: chessplayer
Jon Stewart has no question about this controversial matter: former President Harry S. Truman is a war criminal for dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.

Fine, Jon, then you can dig Harry up, and put him on trial. With what we now know about how the Japanese treated EVERYONE who wasn't Japanese, I'm thinking Harry would be acquited.

40 posted on 04/30/2009 5:38:57 PM PDT by SuziQ
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