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Originally Posted by Aramike
It must be nice to live in a world where harsh applications of force are never necessary.
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Well, I can't get closer to a better world than the worst of idiots, obviously.
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Originally Posted by tater
I was, however, actually thinking more of LeMay's firebombing campaign, which killed more people than both atomic weapons combined. The 2d fire raid on Tokyo killed 102,000 alone, for example.
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The bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, togehter killed almost 200.000 people instantly? The death toll to this day is totaling ~400.000 people who died in the consequence of the bombs because of radiation. Far most of them civilians.
"Imperial Edict", yeah right... That's one sorry excuse.
