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2008-09-03 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-09-03 02:01|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Pelosi Visits Hiroshima A-Bomb Memorial

Drat, 63 years late. Perhaps we could encourage her to take an extended tour of Iranian nuclear facilities.

Posted by AzCat 2008-09-03 03:10|| 2008-09-03 03:10|| Front Page Top

#2 An estimated 140,000 people were killed instantly or died within a few months after an American B-29 bomber dropped its lethal payload on Aug. 6, 1945.

Bogus, long continuing numbers game. Let's use the left's own standard for accrediting cause of death to the citizens of New York for 9/11. We should be able to get that number up to a half a million by the 20th anniversary.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-09-03 08:40|| 2008-09-03 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Pelosi goes to Japan. The Obamessiah goes to Switzerland. Evidently they cannot stand to be on the same continent during the Republican convention.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-03 10:09|| 2008-09-03 10:09|| Front Page Top

#4
He did NOT go to Switzerland. He will be on Bill O'Reilly's show just before McCain's speech Thursday. Which, by the way, tells you a lot about O'Reilly.

Posted by lotp 2008-09-03 10:45|| 2008-09-03 10:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Akiba said 170 nations supported it, with the U.S. one of only three countries opposed.

Those 170 nations of course included Iran, North Korea, Syria, Egypt, The People's Republic of China, Venezuela, Bolivia, Russia... Forgive me if I'm not as impressed as I ought to be.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-09-03 10:53|| 2008-09-03 10:53|| Front Page Top

#6 I welcome Ms. Pelosi's reminder to the world that we've done it before and we can do it again if we have to.

Posted by Darrell 2008-09-03 10:59|| 2008-09-03 10:59|| Front Page Top

#7 An estiameted 74 million Japanese were saved
by teh bomb. Compound it with 300,000 thousand Chinese a month along with a similar number of people in the rest of occupied Asia. Or has someone forgotten what the Japanese did in China, Filipines, Indonesia or Malasia?

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-09-03 11:35|| 2008-09-03 11:35|| Front Page Top

#8 I think Nancy should've gotten down on her hands and knees and let everyone in Japan line up and boot her in the ass.
Would've assuaged that liberal guilt. Tough on the ass though...

Posted by tu3031 2008-09-03 11:43|| 2008-09-03 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 lotp, what does that tell us about O'Reilly? I think it depends upon what O'Reilly asks. If he throws softballs or not.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-03 14:18|| 2008-09-03 14:18|| Front Page Top

#10 I partly agree. But it also gives O a forum to upstage McC

Posted by lotp 2008-09-03 14:38|| 2008-09-03 14:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Gen. LeMay began nightly incendiary bomb raids on Japan's largest cities. One on the suburbs of Tokyo killed over 100,000 and totally destroyed 10 square miles of the city and its suburbs. Tokyo was neither the first or the last. Of course, nobody bitches about those, because they weren't "the first ever". As Harry Truman said, "it's just a bigger artillery shell". Get over it.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-09-03 15:35|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-09-03 15:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Pelosi and the rest of the world should be thanking their lucky stars that we got the bomb before Germany or Japan--they would have used it on us which brings us to Iran...

Posted by JohnQC 2008-09-03 17:28|| 2008-09-03 17:28|| Front Page Top

#13 Read Downfall, by Richard Frank for a thorough discussion of the last days of the war. He covers the firebombing of Tokyo and other cities, the preparations by the Allies and the Japanese for the invasion, and what could have happened if we had continued bombing and then invaded.
Bottom line: there would have been millions of casualties, both military and civilian. Thousands or millions more would have starved to death. Next on our list of bombing targets was the railways that moved the food from the farms to the people. The Japanese should thank us that we ended the war the way we did. The nuclear weapons gave them an excuse to surrender, even though the end was inevitable. The only difference would have been the number of people who died.
Even after Nagasaki, there were die hard Japanese officers who tried to prevent the Emperor's recording of surrender from being broadcast. Think how many more people would have died if the Japanese military had continued to fight on. Without the Emperor telling them to lay down their arms, they would have continued to fight and kill, possibly for years.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-09-03 18:49|| 2008-09-03 18:49|| Front Page Top

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