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WaPo: In Japan and America, more and more people think Hiroshima bombing was wrong
Washington Post ^ | May 10, 2016 | Adam Taylor

Posted on 05/10/2016 9:34:31 AM PDT by Zakeet

This month, President Obama will become the first incumbent American president to visit the Japanese city of Hiroshima since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945.

That bomb - and a second atomic blast on Nagasaki on Aug. 9 - effectively ended World War II; Japan surrendered six days after the Hiroshima bombing. However, the human costs were huge. Estimates of those killed go as high as 150,000, and even for those who survived, it was a hellish, life-altering experience.

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In the first Gallup poll from 1945 just after the bombings, a huge 85 percent of Americans approved the bombings. However, figures from 2005 show a significant decline to 57 percent. Meanwhile, another poll conducted by the Detroit Free Press in the United States and Japan in 1991 found that 63 percent of Americans thought that the bombings were justified in a bid to end the war, while just 29 percent of Japanese did.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abomb; hiroshima; japan; obama; wp; wwii; yadayadayada
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To: TXnMA
TXnMA: "Only a liberal imbecile like 0b0z0 would apololgize for saving millions of lives."

As far as I'm concerned, sir, that's the quote of the day.

If anyone knows a better one, I'd like to see it.

181 posted on 05/10/2016 1:43:16 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: Zakeet

Of course, 70 years have passed and we are no longer in the midst of a world war.

That said, I once read a book about American POWs in Japan when the bombs were dropped. Two of the prisoners went to Nagasaki and were horrified and full of remorse. They didn’t think it was worth it.

OTOH, I personally asked several survivors and they were all for it.


182 posted on 05/10/2016 1:44:27 PM PDT by tiki
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To: Mollypitcher1
"Forgot the LOL!"

So did I, but didn't think it needed.
I could easily see yours! ;-)

183 posted on 05/10/2016 1:45:00 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: shooter223

“War is the solution our enemies have chosen, and I say lets give them all they want.” Quoted by a man that knew what he was talking about, General William T. Sherman


184 posted on 05/10/2016 1:45:53 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: dfwgator

Was it ever proven that Tojo was behind a plot?
Wouldn’t surprise me, those Bushido loving military personnel were crazy enough for anything.

I know some officers wanted to take Hirohito prisoner and pressure him into urging a guerrilla war.

Some junior officers tried to break into the building where the recording was kept and steal it.

Crazy things happen when a war is winding down.


185 posted on 05/10/2016 2:55:31 PM PDT by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me. CRUZ 2016!)
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To: Mollypitcher1
You are right, Trump is passionate about dumping Common Core and returning all or some of the burden to the states. Education's budget is next after that of Defense and HHS; nonetheless, there may well be some feature(s) worth preserving.

Unfortunately, we should expect it will take more than 8 years to arrest and reverse the heavy anti-America theme prevalent in our K-post grad education system.

186 posted on 05/10/2016 4:03:24 PM PDT by frog in a pot (That our commander-in-chief can be foreign born to a foreign father thrills the one-worlders.)
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To: oldvirginian

No less than Admiral Ugaki led about sixteen zealous flight cadets on a final kamikaze mission the day *after* the surrender was announced.


187 posted on 05/10/2016 4:08:35 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: Mollypitcher1
Has Seattle torn down their statue of Lenin?

As I understand it, it is still on display in some artsy-fartsy neighborhood up there:

188 posted on 05/10/2016 5:25:32 PM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To: Oatka

It’s still there in the Fremont neighborhood — surrounded by the kind of small businesses that Lenin would have collectivized. Irony is a significant industry in Seattle.


189 posted on 05/10/2016 5:27:30 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: M1903A1

I hadn’t known that.
Thanks.

Japanese soldiers were coming out of the jungle for thirty years because they refused to believe the war was over.
Talk about hardheaded!


190 posted on 05/10/2016 6:16:27 PM PDT by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me. CRUZ 2016!)
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To: SkyDancer

Bill Whittle covers that in his video as well. And you are right, they were ignored.


191 posted on 05/10/2016 7:09:48 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: Oatka

An utter disgrace!!


192 posted on 05/10/2016 7:20:25 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: oldvirginian

One of the last (”officially” the next-to-last—rumors have persisted of others that “came in from the cold” after him) wrote a very engrossing book about his experience...”No Surrender: My Thirty Year War” by Lt. Hiroo Onoda. IMO it could make for an equally good movie in the right hands.


193 posted on 05/10/2016 7:44:36 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: Oatka

Glue a shopping bag and a Starbucks cup to his hand....


194 posted on 05/10/2016 7:45:41 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: Wonder Warthog

OK, So?


195 posted on 05/10/2016 7:49:39 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: M1903A1

It’s now on my reading list!

Actually looking forward to reading it.
I like seeing how the other side sees and thinks.


196 posted on 05/10/2016 10:48:54 PM PDT by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me. CRUZ 2016!)
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To: BatGuano
"OK, So?"

Uneducated is fixable.....stupid isn't.

197 posted on 05/11/2016 5:15:01 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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