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Originally Posted by August
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Originally Posted by w-subcommander
But Truman belongs to jail. It coul be his price for saving Americans lives and killing civilians. He had my respect as a greatest leader if he went to jail by his own will.
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What do you think the death toll would have been had those atom bombs not been dropped? Does anyone really think the invasion would have started on the 6th of August? No! Japan would have been subjected to weeks and months of round the clock conventional bombing and naval shelling doing far more damage than just two small nukes did.
Millions of Japanese would have died either directly or as the result of starvation and disease before the first allied soldier ever hit the beach and millions more would have died afterwards, not to mention the Allied POWs and citizens from dozens of nations around asia still under the boot heel of the Japanese.
Send Harry Truman to jail? No way, not even if he was still alive. |
Again its a question of moral responsibility.He had my respect as a greatest leader if he went to jail even for 1 day by his own will"
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Sincerely Yours W-SUB COMMANDER, USS PardonMyFrench
Never Let Schooling Get in the Way of Your Education. (~MT)
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