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No complaint about us ending the war, but most of those civilians had nothing to do with those atrocities.Originally posted by phideltflg:
They earned every bit of the suffering they endured after the war. They murdered, raped and tortured millions before and during the war.
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Originally posted by West Duval Nole:
The glow and radiation caused lots of the residents to squint their eyes. This squinting still holds true to this day.
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Originally posted by AllNoles:
No complaint about us ending the war, but most of those civilians had nothing to do with those atrocities.Originally posted by phideltflg:
They earned every bit of the suffering they endured after the war. They murdered, raped and tortured millions before and during the war.
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Originally posted by Urban Cryer:
Originally posted by AllNoles:
No complaint about us ending the war, but most of those civilians had nothing to do with those atrocities.Originally posted by phideltflg:
They earned every bit of the suffering they endured after the war. They murdered, raped and tortured millions before and during the war.
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A lot of us wouldn't be alive today had we not nuked 'em
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Not allowed. I am Asian not black. Double standards apply.Originally posted by BelemNole:
Originally posted by West Duval Nole:
The glow and radiation caused lots of the residents to squint their eyes. This squinting still holds true to this day.
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Next tell a funny black joke.
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Tell me about it. My dad would have been on the invasion force. He would never have lived. I wouldn't be here.Originally posted by Urban Cryer:
Originally posted by AllNoles:
No complaint about us ending the war, but most of those civilians had nothing to do with those atrocities.Originally posted by phideltflg:
They earned every bit of the suffering they endured after the war. They murdered, raped and tortured millions before and during the war.
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A lot of us wouldn't be alive today had we not nuked 'em
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Originally posted by AllNoles:
Tell me about it. My dad would have been on the invasion force. He would never have lived. I wouldn't be here.Originally posted by Urban Cryer:
Originally posted by AllNoles:
No complaint about us ending the war, but most of those civilians had nothing to do with those atrocities.Originally posted by phideltflg:
They earned every bit of the suffering they endured after the war. They murdered, raped and tortured millions before and during the war.
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A lot of us wouldn't be alive today had we not nuked 'em
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Like I said, I've no issue with bombing them. I'm just saying that it doesn't mean all those killed were murderers and torturers.
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Originally posted by West Duval Nole:
Not allowed. I am Asian not black. Double standards apply.Originally posted by BelemNole:
Originally posted by West Duval Nole:
The glow and radiation caused lots of the residents to squint their eyes. This squinting still holds true to this day.
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Next tell a funny black joke.
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Your estimate should have three more zeroes after it. The casualty estimates for Operation Downfall, or X Day, were estimated to be 1 million plus on the US side, dependent upon Japanese civilian involvement.Originally posted by goldmom:
GREAT post Beth.
Consistent estimates from several military historians put the number of expected US casualties at north of 100,000.
Plus the suffering of the Japanese people would have been prolonged, because the Japanese military elites would have overlaid their insistence on no surrender on their civilians as well.
Those who feel badly for the dead from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Should read about the kinds of torture the Japanese have historically inflicted on the Chinese - from the rape of Nanking to the punishment inflicted on the entire territory where the pilots from Doolittle's raiders landed and were helped by Chinese peasants and farmers.
When the other guy starts it - you get to finish it - on your terms.
Please expound.Originally posted by speechteach:
Originally posted by Urban Cryer:
Originally posted by AllNoles:
No complaint about us ending the war, but most of those civilians had nothing to do with those atrocities.Originally posted by phideltflg:
They earned every bit of the suffering they endured after the war. They murdered, raped and tortured millions before and during the war.
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A lot of us wouldn't be alive today had we not nuked 'em
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There is enough evidence out there that we never had to nuke them to end the war.
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With 3 boobs and 11 digits?Originally posted by OrlandNole:
I was in Hiroshima last year. The memorial is a somber experience, but the city itself has been rebuilt and is really cool. Tons of beautiful women.
What did Bpenis get banned for?Originally posted by BelemNole:
You'd think - but i got banned for an Italian comment once.
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This, and wasn't "The Greatest Generation" supposed to be better than that? And maybe you guys should have read the second post that was from an American who was the grandson of a US medic that talked about violent assault of young girls, see below:Originally posted by AllNoles:
No complaint about us ending the war, but most of those civilians had nothing to do with those atrocities.Originally posted by phideltflg:
They earned every bit of the suffering they endured after the war. They murdered, raped and tortured millions before and during the war.
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The Soviets entering the war with the Japanese had as much or more to do with Japan's surrender as we did.Originally posted by TexSkills:
Please expound.Originally posted by speechteach:
Originally posted by Urban Cryer:
Originally posted by AllNoles:
No complaint about us ending the war, but most of those civilians had nothing to do with those atrocities.Originally posted by phideltflg:
They earned every bit of the suffering they endured after the war. They murdered, raped and tortured millions before and during the war.
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A lot of us wouldn't be alive today had we not nuked 'em
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There is enough evidence out there that we never had to nuke them to end the war.
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No actually they didn't. Stalin just basically did a "piling on" so he could grab some of the disputed out islands after the handwriting was on the wall.Originally posted by FSULongM:
The Soviets entering the war with the Japanese had as much or more to do with Japan's surrender as we did.Originally posted by TexSkills:
Please expound.Originally posted by speechteach:
Originally posted by Urban Cryer:
Originally posted by AllNoles:
No complaint about us ending the war, but most of those civilians had nothing to do with those atrocities.Originally posted by phideltflg:
They earned every bit of the suffering they endured after the war. They murdered, raped and tortured millions before and during the war.
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A lot of us wouldn't be alive today had we not nuked 'em
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There is enough evidence out there that we never had to nuke them to end the war.
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FIFYOriginally posted by Phinhead:
Pinch your nose and take the "the homo sapiens are baaaaaaaaaaad" medicine that is given to you every day.
Glad to see that your hindsight is 20/20.Originally posted by speechteach:
Originally posted by Urban Cryer:
Originally posted by AllNoles:
No complaint about us ending the war, but most of those civilians had nothing to do with those atrocities.Originally posted by phideltflg:
They earned every bit of the suffering they endured after the war. They murdered, raped and tortured millions before and during the war.
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A lot of us wouldn't be alive today had we not nuked 'em
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There is enough evidence out there that we never had to nuke them to end the war.
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Care to post it again? JK. Maybe yours was a little more vile or used some kind of derogatory slang name and was it in the LR or TC. They are much more touchy in the TC and even more touchy in the Club Level than in the LR.Originally posted by BelemNole:
You'd think - but i got banned for an Italian comment once.
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I mostly agree with that, except I'm not willing to go as far as calling it a blight on human history. It was just war. Almost certainly the last war that will be fought that directly involves civilians on a large scale.Originally posted by Nole Lou:
You can believe that dropping the bombs were necessary and the right decision, AND that what the people of Japan went through (as well as dozens if not hundreds of atrocities other communities went through all over the world) was a hell of horrors that nobody should have to live through and is a blight on human history.
I don't think conviction in the former requires a lack of appreciation for the latter.
OK we can disagree then. Stalin invaded Manchuria three months to the day after Germany surrendered, exactly as promised at Yalta. We hurried the deployment of the bombs and dropped the second one on the same day as the invasion - not by coincidence - to preempt the Soviets, not the other way around as you suggest.No actually they didn't. Stalin just basically did a "piling on" so he could grab some of the disputed out islands after the handwriting was on the wall.
The facts are that shortly after the forced surrender, the Japanese people were starving, and it was not uncommon for a woman to trade the one thing she could for food. It happened all over the world. The Soviet army's rape of hundreds of thousands of German women has to be a record setter, but the Japanese soldiers who treated the Korean "comfort women" so brutally had no right to be so affronted if their starving women back home traded sex for food or cigarettes.
War is hell. Truly.