Military planners estimated that there would be upwards of 250,000 US soldiers killed and millions of Japanese killed in an invasion of Japan. Liberals would have us believe that would have been better than ending the war with 2 A bombs.
Liberals are just upset because the bombs kept their beloved Soviet Union out of Japan.
Libs said that it only took 3 years to fight wwii.
It was part of the taunt against Bush and the Iraq war.
(A) we could’ve gotten a surrender from Saddam much quicker if we’d dropped 2 atomic bombs
(B) the war against Iraq ended in short order. The terror campaign that followed lasted longer. It would be just as erroneous to say that the civil war in America lasted 100 years because that as the length of the effective power of the terror campaign by the KKK that followed the war.
Don’t ask for consistency or honest debate from libs on atomic warfare.
As with everything else, Liberals can always invent hypotheticals that they insist must invalidate facts and reality.
They actually expected up to 1,000,000 casualties.
500,000 Purple Hearts were ordered and manufactured in anticipation of the invasion. The remaining stock has been refurbished, and those medals were been used until at least until about 2008.
Only 34,000 medals have been ordered since 1976 -- 21,000 in 2008.