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To: JLAGRAYFOX
"First, we have a Japanese government with a stronger sense of America’s interests, and our honor and self respect, than our own president -- a president who sought to apologize for using a weapon that ended the most violent and brutal war in history.

A president who is either ignorant or blind to the fact that if we hadn’t used the bomb and had been forced to invade Japan instead, at least 2 million Japanese would have died in a full-scale invasion of Japan, instead of the 300,000 killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- not to mention the 1 million US casualties that the War Department and Joint Chiefs of Staff calculated would come in that assault."

Idiot Compassion (The Buddhist view of liberal compassion)

0bungles is an idiot!

16 posted on 10/13/2011 8:43:20 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: TigersEye
I think that the 1 million casualty figure was just for Operation Olympic, the invasion of Honshu, in November, 1945. The follow on invasion of the main island (Operation Coronet) scheduled for Spring, 1946, would have been substantially higher.
18 posted on 10/13/2011 9:02:38 AM PDT by catman67
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