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2008-09-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

Nancy Pelosi Visits Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Memorial

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Posted by Flavinter Cherese8323 2008-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Gee, Nancy, are you going to visit Manila? Didn't think so. BTW, that was an American territory that the Japanese devastated and decimated the population. They were already schedule for independence when the Japanese decided to add them to their Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere. Sorta of the pre-Puty replay of making friends and influencing people.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-09-03 08:25|| 2008-09-03 08:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Should've taken a visit to Nanking as well. There's also a movie.

Posted by Pappy 2008-09-03 12:16|| 2008-09-03 12:16|| Front Page Top

#3 My father told me that at the briefings for the invasion of Japan, the Admirals were very forthright that they expected over 1.0 million casualties in subduing Honshu.

As a note, the Japanese were being trained to attack us in mass Banzai attackes with spears and tools and farm implements. They had pulled back over 500,000 of their best troops into Japan and they had over 1,500 aircraft hidden away. The strategy was attrition, they threw cannon fodder at us and hoped we would tire of the fighting and go into a negotiations for peace. All in all I have read that over 5.0 million Japanese would have been killed in the fighting.

The Enola Gay and Bock's Car killed 175,000 but saved almost 5.0 million by forcing the surrender.

It wasn't racist or genocide, it was common sense the math speaks for itself.

Posted by James Carville 2008-09-03 15:36|| 2008-09-03 15:36|| Front Page Top

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