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2016-05-29 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Brian Williams: U.S. Is ‘The Only Nation to Have Used’ Nuclear Weapons ‘In Anger’

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Posted by Fred 2016-05-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 the only nation to have used them in anger
Certainly they were used in time of war perhaps not in anger but in hope.

The two bombings killed tens of thousands.
The resultant actions saved perhaps millions of lives of the alternative Allied invasion forces.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-05-29 01:29|| 2016-05-29 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Bran, of course knows all about the decisions leading up to the use of the bomb. After all he was there!

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-05-29 02:11|| 2016-05-29 02:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey, Brian, you forgot, they nuked New Mexico first.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-05-29 08:53|| 2016-05-29 08:53|| Front Page Top

#4 It is sad how Williams' groundbreaking interview with Truman just after the bombing has been forgotten.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2016-05-29 10:57|| 2016-05-29 10:57|| Front Page Top

#5 War is fought in anger. We did not storm Normandy beach listening to Polka music. We went there to kill, in anger, and to make the cost of war so high on our enemies that they would rather live under our rule that fight us. Its angry business, the angrier we are, the shorter the war will be. This is what's wrong with the way America fights its wars today. Total war ends quickly, just ask Japan. Fight hard, get angry, win, get over it....

Posted by 49 Pan 2016-05-29 13:03|| 2016-05-29 13:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Considering we haven't used them in over 70 years despite some people just begging for it, I'd say that's a better record than most other nations might have.

Posted by Flinetch Pelosi4105 2016-05-29 13:25|| 2016-05-29 13:25|| Front Page Top

#7 ...and the whole "in Anger" thing? You'd be OK with it, Brian, if they were used in joy?

Posted by Flinetch Pelosi4105 2016-05-29 13:27|| 2016-05-29 13:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Anger: The new asymmetric war thing.

Posted by Shipman 2016-05-29 13:56|| 2016-05-29 13:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Brian, of course, has been benched for a while now for lying. But he still knows how to use his yap to keep himself in the public eye.

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-05-29 16:43|| 2016-05-29 16:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Most anyone with military experience know that "we’re the only nation to have used them in anger" means nothing but that we are the only nation to have used them in wartime. He was not referring to an emotional state.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-05-29 17:04|| 2016-05-29 17:04|| Front Page Top

#11 it was a goodwill measure

Posted by Frank G 2016-05-29 17:14|| 2016-05-29 17:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Still lying after all these years.

Posted by Jack Salami 2016-05-29 17:33|| 2016-05-29 17:33|| Front Page Top

#13 The only nation to ever use nuclear weapons, also the only nation to choose not to use them in subsequent wars.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-05-29 22:05|| 2016-05-29 22:05|| Front Page Top

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