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2005-08-06 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Ebbetch Uneresh6677 2005-08-06 08:31|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 killing approximately 140,000 people

Bogus numbers. If you demand they show where they got them, its usually referencing someone else. Its a long dig and you discover, it was pulled out of someone's ass.
The development group really wanted to know the full effect of the weapons and did a very indepth analysis. They weren't hiding anything. They found the Japanese rice ration allocations which identified everyone in the city. They then conducted a census, not a statistical sample. The census included interviews which asked each interviewee who lived in their neighborhoods and streets. Very systematic, which the big number people can not show similar methodologies. The final number killed outright and immediately following from various causes was around 65,000, the long term radition numbers tracked both by the US and the Japanese government was an additional 5,000.
So why the difference between 70,000 and 140,000, probably to cover the massive slaughter of Chinese as at Nanking and Filipinos at Manilia [Feb '45]. It the big victim game tagged to the anti-American crowd.

Posted by Slock Phavilet4871 2005-08-06 20:20|| 2005-08-06 20:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Didn't the firebombing of Tokyo kill 100,000 outright?

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-08-06 22:08|| 2005-08-06 22:08|| Front Page Top

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