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To: Proud2BeRight
Virtually all of the folks nuked in Japan are dead. It happened 70 years ago. Almost all of them were women and children.

I seriously doubt Tojo and his lackeys gave the slightest thought to what women and children thought about making war.

However, Americans who blame women and children for Tojo's actions are beneath contempt.

36 posted on 10/29/2005 8:39:35 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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To: muawiyah

"Virtually all of the folks nuked in Japan are dead. It happened 70 years ago."

No. It was 60 years ago and it allowed my Dad to come home from fighting in the Pacific.


47 posted on 10/29/2005 8:45:40 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: muawiyah

"Almost all of them were women and children."

I assume you can cite some authority for this statement.

Even if it's true, again I say, you have no concept of what is involved in modern war.


51 posted on 10/29/2005 8:48:14 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3rd Bn. Fifth Marines RVN 1969)
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To: muawiyah

"Virtually all of the folks nuked in Japan are dead. It happened 70 years ago. Almost all of them were women and children."

Well, I guess NOT if some of them are prostesting, hmm, Sparky?

"I seriously doubt Tojo and his lackeys gave the slightest thought to what women and children thought about making war."

Irrelevant and a weak guilt trip to try and sidetrack your lack of understanding.

"However, Americans who blame women and children for Tojo's actions are beneath contempt."

Nobody has blamed the women and children specifically. YOU, however, are basing a straw man arguement on the only people effected by the bombs were women and children, yet I've seen plenty of photos and film of able-bodied men who were injured or killed in the bombing.

So, take your "contempt" and shove it, troll.

If you knew anything of the history fo the Japanese public during the war, you'd never take the position that they were innocents - they fully supported Tojo's efforts in every way.


72 posted on 10/29/2005 8:59:55 PM PDT by ByDesign
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To: muawiyah

Actually....the Imperial Japanese Army had its Second Army Headquarters in Hiroshima...and at the time the bomb was dropped their were close to 30k soldiers in Hiroshima -- most of whom were killed due to the fact that ground zero was within a mile of their barracks.

The Second Army was the main body to execute Ketsu-Go, the Japanese plan for countering the anticipated US invasion of Kyushu -- Operation Majestic (originally Olympic).

So even though there were literally tens of thousands of women and children killed at Hiroshima....there were also tens of thousands of Imperial Army personnel also killed.


86 posted on 10/29/2005 9:20:21 PM PDT by Basilides
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To: muawiyah

Oh..and another correction....Hideki Tojo resigned as War and Prime Minister of Japan many months before the dropping of the A-bombs.


88 posted on 10/29/2005 9:21:55 PM PDT by Basilides
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