[Gertie]

Right on...and had we not used the bomb, sooner or later someone would have, perhaps our using it prevented that occurrence.

[beenaround]

Bet on it. The Germans were thisclose to developing one. I know they surrendered first but who knows what the Japanese were up to. In any case even if dropping the bombs would have only saved 5 lives instead of 500,000 American and allied lives it was worth it.
The blame America crowd pisses me off because they are such freakin’ hypocrites. They finger point and marginalize everything we do but the sh*t hits the fan they are frantically looking for us to bail out their sorry asses. My call after 9/11 would have been to nuke Afghanistan and in no uncertain terms let the rest of the Camel humpers that there is a list of the order in which Arab Nations will be annihilated and each time America or one of her allies is attacked in anyway another one of their hell holes will be turned into a melted slag pile. My guess is after the second time they will turn there interest in another direction and leave us alone. Publicly the world will act with outrage at our barbarism while privately in back channel communications we will be high fived with great joy.