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CBS poll: Plurality of Americans now disapprove of decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan
HotAir ^ | May 27, 2016 | Allahpundit

Posted on 05/27/2016 7:28:52 PM PDT by Trump20162020

An addendum to Larry’s item this morning, which correctly diagnosed Obama’s appearance in Hiroshima as a bit more apologetic than the White House wants observers to believe. If you come to the site of an act that ended four years of horrendous war and insist that a “moral revolution” is needed to ensure that such acts aren’t repeated, you’re obviously making a statement about the morality of that original act. If you want to protest guns, you don’t do it at a place where someone once used one to defend himself successfully from a threat. You do it at a site where one was used without justification, to murder.

But I digress. After decades of Americans defending Truman’s decision to drop the bomb, we’ve now had enough population churn to finally move the numbers. People who lived through the meat grinder of World War II are dying off, replaced by people who’ve never lived in a country that has a military draft, let alone one that might have placed them in the middle of a maelstrom like X-Day. Go figure that when Gallup polled the public in August 1945 on whether they approved of the development of the atomic bomb, fully 69 percent said yes. Fast-forward 71 years and here we are.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan
KEYWORDS: hiroshima; japan; nuclear; obama; ww2
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1 posted on 05/27/2016 7:28:52 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Howard Zinn is smiling in Hell.


2 posted on 05/27/2016 7:30:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Trump20162020

Bullying?


3 posted on 05/27/2016 7:31:07 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Trump20162020

In a bizarre twist, some of those who disapprove would not be here today if it had not been dropped.


4 posted on 05/27/2016 7:31:32 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Trump20162020

Yeah. Prolly has a lot to do with this white guilt we’re being force fed.

Bottom line: japan attacked us first. We ended the war & saved millions of lives in doing so.


5 posted on 05/27/2016 7:32:40 PM PDT by thinden
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To: Trump20162020

They wouldn’t want to fight them, either, which is the ironic part.

Dropping the bomb eliminated the need to do that.


6 posted on 05/27/2016 7:32:50 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: Trump20162020

Cuz they’re IDIOTS:

Yalta Agreement REQUIRED Stalin to be in on the conquest of the Japanese Home Islands WITHIN SIX MONTHS of Hitler’s fall.

ALL early intel suggested Stalin would NOT simply be a liberator of new lands, that HE WOULD STAY.

The atom bomb gave the USA a way to totally exclude the Soviets, thereby preserving the national sub-division fate that befell Germany, Korea and later Vietnam.

We would have had North Japan/South Japan, much as Korea today.

The Japanese accepted defeat cuz they knew the Soviets would HANG their Emperor, much as they’d earlier killed the Czar and his family.

NOTE:

The ONLY land Japan lost that is STILL lost to them was lost to the Soviets —two islands near Hokkaido.

They kept their Emperor and avoided being subdivided.

IDIOTS.


7 posted on 05/27/2016 7:32:57 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Trump20162020

The mass ignorance in this nation is staggering.


8 posted on 05/27/2016 7:32:59 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Trump20162020

Everyone should read “Downfall” by Richard Frank.


9 posted on 05/27/2016 7:33:00 PM PDT by henkster (Don't listen to what people say, watch what they do.)
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To: Trump20162020

Pathetic.


10 posted on 05/27/2016 7:33:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: gaijin

The real reason the Left disapproved using the A-Bomb, it kept the Soviets out of Japan.


11 posted on 05/27/2016 7:33:44 PM PDT by dfwgator
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....In a bizarre twist, some of those who disapprove would not be here today if it had not been dropped....

Count me as one of those.


12 posted on 05/27/2016 7:33:45 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: Trump20162020

Well then I suppose we should retrograde back to 1945 and say “Hey, just a goldurn minit here” .... right?


13 posted on 05/27/2016 7:33:48 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Trump20162020
Congratulations to the marxist ideologues. They have dumbed down our population to historic levels.

This leads me to believe, personally, that eventually our planet will self destruct due to extraordinary ignorance.

14 posted on 05/27/2016 7:33:52 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Trump20162020

These same ass holes don’t know enough history to answer the question in the 1st place. Theres a need for rules. Rule #1...do you know the circumstances as to why the bomb was dropped in the 1st place?


15 posted on 05/27/2016 7:33:53 PM PDT by albie
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To: Trump20162020

I wonder why? Could it be because the communist manifesto has been followed to make sure our schools don’t teach history anymore - other than to make America the bad guys?


16 posted on 05/27/2016 7:34:13 PM PDT by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: thinden
& saved millions of lives in doing so.

Opponents of the strike wanted a bloodbath to sate their bloodlust.

17 posted on 05/27/2016 7:34:30 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Trump20162020

My father was an infantryman about to be sent to the Pacific theater for the impending invasion of Japan. Because Truman ordered the atomic bombings, the Japs surrendered. I’m here for that reason alone.

Pardon me if I don’t join this “plurality”. Today’s Japanese think WWII began on August 6, 1945. More than a billion Chinese will strenuously disagree.


18 posted on 05/27/2016 7:34:52 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Trump20162020

Ironically, a significant portion of that same plurality would not be here to disapprove had the bombs not been dropped. They would never have been born due to the wartime deaths of their fathers/grandfathers.


19 posted on 05/27/2016 7:35:00 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: dfwgator

I have a very strong feeling you are CORRECT.


20 posted on 05/27/2016 7:35:23 PM PDT by gaijin
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