In honor of obama's speech, the crimes of Imperial Japan.........

[C_Clayton_Jones]

There is no doubt the Japanese military committed horrible war crimes, but the A-bombings were also a war crime. There was little military activity in either city, which is why they had yet to be bombed. Truman choose to incinerate women, children, and old people. We Americans should not find this acceptable or admirable.

Politicians are the scum of the human race.

It took less than 5 seconds to determine the military aspects of Hiroshima........you guys have got to stop listening to left wing, anti American haters...like all left wingers...they lie.....they have to....the facts, the truth and reality never support their side of the argument...so the only thing they have is lying...

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Hiroshima was chosen as the first target due to its military and industrial values.

As a military target, Hiroshima was a major army base that housed the headquarters of the Japanese 5th Division and the 2nd Army Headquarters. It was also an important port in southern Japan and a communications center. The mountains surrounding Hiroshima also contributed to Hiroshima being among one of the top choices among the short list of potential targets, for that the mountains might contain the destructive forces of an atomic blast in the target area, increasing the level of destruction.

US Secretary of War Henry Stimson voiced successfully against the selection of Kyoto as a target, arguing that the city held cultural importance to the world; he also had a personal attachment to the city as he and his wife traveled to Kyoto on their honeymoon many years prior.

Prior to the bombing, the United States Army conducted many missions over Japanese cities that were composed of very few B-29 bombers. The purpose of such flights were to wear down the alertness of Japanese anti-aircraft defense crew, whether gunners or fighter pilots, so that when the atomic bomb attacks arrived, perhaps some of the Japanese would let their guards down.


------------------

The city of Nagasaki was one of the most important sea ports in southern Japan. Although it was not among the list of potential targets selected by Oppenheimer's committee, it was added later due to its significance as a major war production center for warships, munitions, and other equipment. This was the very reason why Sweeney hoped that Kokura would have clear weather for the attack, thus avoiding an attack on Nagasaki which housed a greater civilian population.



So...your whole post was completely, historically inaccurate.........both cities had military value and they tried to avoid hitting Nagasaki but had to because their original target was cloud covered and they needed the visual targeting for the bomb..........n ver, ever trust left anti Americans...

Civilian targets also have tactical purposes in war. The enemy's ability to wage war can be reduced if you destroy their food processing centers and their factories. Liberals think that war should be waged cleanly and surgically, surest way to lose a war I know.

Are you proud of what American leaders did to Japan?

Read this:
Apart from the moral questions involved, were the atomic bombings militarily necessary? By any rational yardstick, they were not. Japan already had been defeated militarily by June 1945. Almost nothing was left of the once mighty Imperial Navy, and Japan's air force had been all but totally destroyed. Against only token opposition, American war planes ranged at will over the country, and US bombers rained down devastation on her cities, steadily reducing them to rubble.

What was left of Japan's factories and workshops struggled fitfully to turn out weapons and other goods from inadequate raw materials. (Oil supplies had not been available since April.) By July about a quarter of all the houses in Japan had been destroyed, and her transportation system was near collapse. Food had become so scarce that most Japanese were subsisting on a sub-starvation diet.

On the night of March 9-10, 1945, a wave of 300 American bombers struck Tokyo, killing 100,000 people. Dropping nearly 1,700 tons of bombs, the war planes ravaged much of the capital city, completely burning out 16 square miles and destroying a quarter of a million structures. A million residents were left homeless.

On May 23, eleven weeks later, came the greatest air raid of the Pacific War, when 520 giant B-29 "Superfortress" bombers unleashed 4,500 tons of incendiary bombs on the heart of the already battered Japanese capital. Generating gale-force winds, the exploding incendiaries obliterated Tokyo's commercial center and railway yards, and consumed the Ginza entertainment district. Two days later, on May 25, a second strike of 502 "Superfortress" planes roared low over Tokyo, raining down some 4,000 tons of explosives. Together these two B-29 raids destroyed 56 square miles of the Japanese capital.

Even before the Hiroshima attack, American air force General Curtis LeMay boasted that American bombers were "driving them [Japanese] back to the stone age." Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, commanding General of the Army air forces, declared in his 1949 memoirs: "It always appeared to us, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse." This was confirmed by former Japanese prime minister Fumimaro Konoye, who said: "Fundamentally, the thing that brought about the determination to make peace was the prolonged bombing by the B-29s."



If you are man enough....here is more of the truth:
Was Hiroshima Necessary?

Hey genius.......did you read your own quote.....even with that massive damage by normal munitions........they still refused to surrender.........until we dropped those bombs...

You left wing fucktards have no concept of reality.

You truly are a scumbag – not that that’s news.

 

[2aguy]

Do you even understand the general orders for Japanese troops for the upcoming invasion of the main island....they were to murder every last American and British pow in their camps so they wouldn't have to spare manpower guarding them, when the first allied soldier landed on home soil....

 

[2aguy]

There is no doubt the Japanese military committed horrible war crimes, but the A-bombings were also a war crime. There was little military activity in either city, which is why they had yet to be bombed. Truman choose to incinerate women, children, and old people. We Americans should not find this acceptable or admirable.

Politicians are the scum of the human race.

It took less than 5 seconds to determine the military aspects of Hiroshima........you guys have got to stop listening to left wing, anti American haters...like all left wingers...they lie.....they have to....the facts, the truth and reality never support their side of the argument...so the only thing they have is lying...

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Hiroshima was chosen as the first target due to its military and industrial values.

As a military target, Hiroshima was a major army base that housed the headquarters of the Japanese 5th Division and the 2nd Army Headquarters. It was also an important port in southern Japan and a communications center. The mountains surrounding Hiroshima also contributed to Hiroshima being among one of the top choices among the short list of potential targets, for that the mountains might contain the destructive forces of an atomic blast in the target area, increasing the level of destruction.

US Secretary of War Henry Stimson voiced successfully against the selection of Kyoto as a target, arguing that the city held cultural importance to the world; he also had a personal attachment to the city as he and his wife traveled to Kyoto on their honeymoon many years prior.

Prior to the bombing, the United States Army conducted many missions over Japanese cities that were composed of very few B-29 bombers. The purpose of such flights were to wear down the alertness of Japanese anti-aircraft defense crew, whether gunners or fighter pilots, so that when the atomic bomb attacks arrived, perhaps some of the Japanese would let their guards down.


------------------

The city of Nagasaki was one of the most important sea ports in southern Japan. Although it was not among the list of potential targets selected by Oppenheimer's committee, it was added later due to its significance as a major war production center for warships, munitions, and other equipment. This was the very reason why Sweeney hoped that Kokura would have clear weather for the attack, thus avoiding an attack on Nagasaki which housed a greater civilian population.



So...your whole post was completely, historically inaccurate.........both cities had military value and they tried to avoid hitting Nagasaki but had to because their original target was cloud covered and they needed the visual targeting for the bomb..........n ver, ever trust left anti Americans...

Civilian targets also have tactical purposes in war. The enemy's ability to wage war can be reduced if you destroy their food processing centers and their factories. Liberals think that war should be waged cleanly and surgically, surest way to lose a war I know.

Are you proud of what American leaders did to Japan?

Read this:
Apart from the moral questions involved, were the atomic bombings militarily necessary? By any rational yardstick, they were not. Japan already had been defeated militarily by June 1945. Almost nothing was left of the once mighty Imperial Navy, and Japan's air force had been all but totally destroyed. Against only token opposition, American war planes ranged at will over the country, and US bombers rained down devastation on her cities, steadily reducing them to rubble.

What was left of Japan's factories and workshops struggled fitfully to turn out weapons and other goods from inadequate raw materials. (Oil supplies had not been available since April.) By July about a quarter of all the houses in Japan had been destroyed, and her transportation system was near collapse. Food had become so scarce that most Japanese were subsisting on a sub-starvation diet.

On the night of March 9-10, 1945, a wave of 300 American bombers struck Tokyo, killing 100,000 people. Dropping nearly 1,700 tons of bombs, the war planes ravaged much of the capital city, completely burning out 16 square miles and destroying a quarter of a million structures. A million residents were left homeless.

On May 23, eleven weeks later, came the greatest air raid of the Pacific War, when 520 giant B-29 "Superfortress" bombers unleashed 4,500 tons of incendiary bombs on the heart of the already battered Japanese capital. Generating gale-force winds, the exploding incendiaries obliterated Tokyo's commercial center and railway yards, and consumed the Ginza entertainment district. Two days later, on May 25, a second strike of 502 "Superfortress" planes roared low over Tokyo, raining down some 4,000 tons of explosives. Together these two B-29 raids destroyed 56 square miles of the Japanese capital.

Even before the Hiroshima attack, American air force General Curtis LeMay boasted that American bombers were "driving them [Japanese] back to the stone age." Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, commanding General of the Army air forces, declared in his 1949 memoirs: "It always appeared to us, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse." This was confirmed by former Japanese prime minister Fumimaro Konoye, who said: "Fundamentally, the thing that brought about the determination to make peace was the prolonged bombing by the B-29s."



If you are man enough....here is more of the truth:
Was Hiroshima Necessary?

Hey genius.......did you read your own quote.....even with that massive damage by normal munitions........they still refused to surrender.........until we dropped those bombs...

You left wing fucktards have no concept of reality.

You truly are a scumbag – not that that’s news.

You are an asswipe.......with no clue about the truth, reality or facts....

 

[Unkotare]

Just a matter of time before someone chimed in with the old fantasy of old ladies and toddlers rushing the beaches with brooms and teddy bears to attack US forces.......

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

WWII Japan was the template for ISIS. No wonder Obama is apologizing.

Are you oblivious to the fact you’re a liar because you’ve been doing it for so long, or do you know you are in fact a liar and just don’t care.

That is a weird response. Makes no sense.

 

[gipper]

There is no doubt the Japanese military committed horrible war crimes, but the A-bombings were also a war crime. There was little military activity in either city, which is why they had yet to be bombed. Truman choose to incinerate women, children, and old people. We Americans should not find this acceptable or admirable.

Politicians are the scum of the human race.

It took less than 5 seconds to determine the military aspects of Hiroshima........you guys have got to stop listening to left wing, anti American haters...like all left wingers...they lie.....they have to....the facts, the truth and reality never support their side of the argument...so the only thing they have is lying...

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Hiroshima was chosen as the first target due to its military and industrial values.

As a military target, Hiroshima was a major army base that housed the headquarters of the Japanese 5th Division and the 2nd Army Headquarters. It was also an important port in southern Japan and a communications center. The mountains surrounding Hiroshima also contributed to Hiroshima being among one of the top choices among the short list of potential targets, for that the mountains might contain the destructive forces of an atomic blast in the target area, increasing the level of destruction.

US Secretary of War Henry Stimson voiced successfully against the selection of Kyoto as a target, arguing that the city held cultural importance to the world; he also had a personal attachment to the city as he and his wife traveled to Kyoto on their honeymoon many years prior.

Prior to the bombing, the United States Army conducted many missions over Japanese cities that were composed of very few B-29 bombers. The purpose of such flights were to wear down the alertness of Japanese anti-aircraft defense crew, whether gunners or fighter pilots, so that when the atomic bomb attacks arrived, perhaps some of the Japanese would let their guards down.


------------------

The city of Nagasaki was one of the most important sea ports in southern Japan. Although it was not among the list of potential targets selected by Oppenheimer's committee, it was added later due to its significance as a major war production center for warships, munitions, and other equipment. This was the very reason why Sweeney hoped that Kokura would have clear weather for the attack, thus avoiding an attack on Nagasaki which housed a greater civilian population.



So...your whole post was completely, historically inaccurate.........both cities had military value and they tried to avoid hitting Nagasaki but had to because their original target was cloud covered and they needed the visual targeting for the bomb..........n ver, ever trust left anti Americans...

Civilian targets also have tactical purposes in war. The enemy's ability to wage war can be reduced if you destroy their food processing centers and their factories. Liberals think that war should be waged cleanly and surgically, surest way to lose a war I know.

Are you proud of what American leaders did to Japan?

Read this:
Apart from the moral questions involved, were the atomic bombings militarily necessary? By any rational yardstick, they were not. Japan already had been defeated militarily by June 1945. Almost nothing was left of the once mighty Imperial Navy, and Japan's air force had been all but totally destroyed. Against only token opposition, American war planes ranged at will over the country, and US bombers rained down devastation on her cities, steadily reducing them to rubble.

What was left of Japan's factories and workshops struggled fitfully to turn out weapons and other goods from inadequate raw materials. (Oil supplies had not been available since April.) By July about a quarter of all the houses in Japan had been destroyed, and her transportation system was near collapse. Food had become so scarce that most Japanese were subsisting on a sub-starvation diet.

On the night of March 9-10, 1945, a wave of 300 American bombers struck Tokyo, killing 100,000 people. Dropping nearly 1,700 tons of bombs, the war planes ravaged much of the capital city, completely burning out 16 square miles and destroying a quarter of a million structures. A million residents were left homeless.

On May 23, eleven weeks later, came the greatest air raid of the Pacific War, when 520 giant B-29 "Superfortress" bombers unleashed 4,500 tons of incendiary bombs on the heart of the already battered Japanese capital. Generating gale-force winds, the exploding incendiaries obliterated Tokyo's commercial center and railway yards, and consumed the Ginza entertainment district. Two days later, on May 25, a second strike of 502 "Superfortress" planes roared low over Tokyo, raining down some 4,000 tons of explosives. Together these two B-29 raids destroyed 56 square miles of the Japanese capital.

Even before the Hiroshima attack, American air force General Curtis LeMay boasted that American bombers were "driving them [Japanese] back to the stone age." Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, commanding General of the Army air forces, declared in his 1949 memoirs: "It always appeared to us, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse." This was confirmed by former Japanese prime minister Fumimaro Konoye, who said: "Fundamentally, the thing that brought about the determination to make peace was the prolonged bombing by the B-29s."



If you are man enough....here is more of the truth:
Was Hiroshima Necessary?

More anti American left wing lies....the Japanese were refusing to surrender and had planned to resist any invasion of Jaapn to the last man, woman and child......causing us to take massive casualties.....left wing assholes sitting here in the time after the war have no fucking clue about that war or the monsters the Japanese were......

The author of the piece I posted is not left wing, nor am I. So, your entire post is BS.

 

[gipper]

There is no doubt the Japanese military committed horrible war crimes, but the A-bombings were also a war crime. There was little military activity in either city, which is why they had yet to be bombed. Truman choose to incinerate women, children, and old people. We Americans should not find this acceptable or admirable.

Politicians are the scum of the human race.

It took less than 5 seconds to determine the military aspects of Hiroshima........you guys have got to stop listening to left wing, anti American haters...like all left wingers...they lie.....they have to....the facts, the truth and reality never support their side of the argument...so the only thing they have is lying...

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Hiroshima was chosen as the first target due to its military and industrial values.

As a military target, Hiroshima was a major army base that housed the headquarters of the Japanese 5th Division and the 2nd Army Headquarters. It was also an important port in southern Japan and a communications center. The mountains surrounding Hiroshima also contributed to Hiroshima being among one of the top choices among the short list of potential targets, for that the mountains might contain the destructive forces of an atomic blast in the target area, increasing the level of destruction.

US Secretary of War Henry Stimson voiced successfully against the selection of Kyoto as a target, arguing that the city held cultural importance to the world; he also had a personal attachment to the city as he and his wife traveled to Kyoto on their honeymoon many years prior.

Prior to the bombing, the United States Army conducted many missions over Japanese cities that were composed of very few B-29 bombers. The purpose of such flights were to wear down the alertness of Japanese anti-aircraft defense crew, whether gunners or fighter pilots, so that when the atomic bomb attacks arrived, perhaps some of the Japanese would let their guards down.


------------------

The city of Nagasaki was one of the most important sea ports in southern Japan. Although it was not among the list of potential targets selected by Oppenheimer's committee, it was added later due to its significance as a major war production center for warships, munitions, and other equipment. This was the very reason why Sweeney hoped that Kokura would have clear weather for the attack, thus avoiding an attack on Nagasaki which housed a greater civilian population.



So...your whole post was completely, historically inaccurate.........both cities had military value and they tried to avoid hitting Nagasaki but had to because their original target was cloud covered and they needed the visual targeting for the bomb..........n ver, ever trust left anti Americans...

Civilian targets also have tactical purposes in war. The enemy's ability to wage war can be reduced if you destroy their food processing centers and their factories. Liberals think that war should be waged cleanly and surgically, surest way to lose a war I know.

Are you proud of what American leaders did to Japan?

Read this:
Apart from the moral questions involved, were the atomic bombings militarily necessary? By any rational yardstick, they were not. Japan already had been defeated militarily by June 1945. Almost nothing was left of the once mighty Imperial Navy, and Japan's air force had been all but totally destroyed. Against only token opposition, American war planes ranged at will over the country, and US bombers rained down devastation on her cities, steadily reducing them to rubble.

What was left of Japan's factories and workshops struggled fitfully to turn out weapons and other goods from inadequate raw materials. (Oil supplies had not been available since April.) By July about a quarter of all the houses in Japan had been destroyed, and her transportation system was near collapse. Food had become so scarce that most Japanese were subsisting on a sub-starvation diet.

On the night of March 9-10, 1945, a wave of 300 American bombers struck Tokyo, killing 100,000 people. Dropping nearly 1,700 tons of bombs, the war planes ravaged much of the capital city, completely burning out 16 square miles and destroying a quarter of a million structures. A million residents were left homeless.

On May 23, eleven weeks later, came the greatest air raid of the Pacific War, when 520 giant B-29 "Superfortress" bombers unleashed 4,500 tons of incendiary bombs on the heart of the already battered Japanese capital. Generating gale-force winds, the exploding incendiaries obliterated Tokyo's commercial center and railway yards, and consumed the Ginza entertainment district. Two days later, on May 25, a second strike of 502 "Superfortress" planes roared low over Tokyo, raining down some 4,000 tons of explosives. Together these two B-29 raids destroyed 56 square miles of the Japanese capital.

Even before the Hiroshima attack, American air force General Curtis LeMay boasted that American bombers were "driving them [Japanese] back to the stone age." Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, commanding General of the Army air forces, declared in his 1949 memoirs: "It always appeared to us, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse." This was confirmed by former Japanese prime minister Fumimaro Konoye, who said: "Fundamentally, the thing that brought about the determination to make peace was the prolonged bombing by the B-29s."



If you are man enough....here is more of the truth:
Was Hiroshima Necessary?

Hey genius.......did you read your own quote.....even with that massive damage by normal munitions........they still refused to surrender.........until we dropped those bombs...

You left wing fucktards have no concept of reality.

Kill innocents because their imperial leaders won't surrender.

Makes sense to idiots and warmongers.

 

[2aguy]

There is no doubt the Japanese military committed horrible war crimes, but the A-bombings were also a war crime. There was little military activity in either city, which is why they had yet to be bombed. Truman choose to incinerate women, children, and old people. We Americans should not find this acceptable or admirable.

Politicians are the scum of the human race.

It took less than 5 seconds to determine the military aspects of Hiroshima........you guys have got to stop listening to left wing, anti American haters...like all left wingers...they lie.....they have to....the facts, the truth and reality never support their side of the argument...so the only thing they have is lying...

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Hiroshima was chosen as the first target due to its military and industrial values.

As a military target, Hiroshima was a major army base that housed the headquarters of the Japanese 5th Division and the 2nd Army Headquarters. It was also an important port in southern Japan and a communications center. The mountains surrounding Hiroshima also contributed to Hiroshima being among one of the top choices among the short list of potential targets, for that the mountains might contain the destructive forces of an atomic blast in the target area, increasing the level of destruction.

US Secretary of War Henry Stimson voiced successfully against the selection of Kyoto as a target, arguing that the city held cultural importance to the world; he also had a personal attachment to the city as he and his wife traveled to Kyoto on their honeymoon many years prior.

Prior to the bombing, the United States Army conducted many missions over Japanese cities that were composed of very few B-29 bombers. The purpose of such flights were to wear down the alertness of Japanese anti-aircraft defense crew, whether gunners or fighter pilots, so that when the atomic bomb attacks arrived, perhaps some of the Japanese would let their guards down.


------------------

The city of Nagasaki was one of the most important sea ports in southern Japan. Although it was not among the list of potential targets selected by Oppenheimer's committee, it was added later due to its significance as a major war production center for warships, munitions, and other equipment. This was the very reason why Sweeney hoped that Kokura would have clear weather for the attack, thus avoiding an attack on Nagasaki which housed a greater civilian population.



So...your whole post was completely, historically inaccurate.........both cities had military value and they tried to avoid hitting Nagasaki but had to because their original target was cloud covered and they needed the visual targeting for the bomb..........n ver, ever trust left anti Americans...

Civilian targets also have tactical purposes in war. The enemy's ability to wage war can be reduced if you destroy their food processing centers and their factories. Liberals think that war should be waged cleanly and surgically, surest way to lose a war I know.

Are you proud of what American leaders did to Japan?

Read this:
Apart from the moral questions involved, were the atomic bombings militarily necessary? By any rational yardstick, they were not. Japan already had been defeated militarily by June 1945. Almost nothing was left of the once mighty Imperial Navy, and Japan's air force had been all but totally destroyed. Against only token opposition, American war planes ranged at will over the country, and US bombers rained down devastation on her cities, steadily reducing them to rubble.

What was left of Japan's factories and workshops struggled fitfully to turn out weapons and other goods from inadequate raw materials. (Oil supplies had not been available since April.) By July about a quarter of all the houses in Japan had been destroyed, and her transportation system was near collapse. Food had become so scarce that most Japanese were subsisting on a sub-starvation diet.

On the night of March 9-10, 1945, a wave of 300 American bombers struck Tokyo, killing 100,000 people. Dropping nearly 1,700 tons of bombs, the war planes ravaged much of the capital city, completely burning out 16 square miles and destroying a quarter of a million structures. A million residents were left homeless.

On May 23, eleven weeks later, came the greatest air raid of the Pacific War, when 520 giant B-29 "Superfortress" bombers unleashed 4,500 tons of incendiary bombs on the heart of the already battered Japanese capital. Generating gale-force winds, the exploding incendiaries obliterated Tokyo's commercial center and railway yards, and consumed the Ginza entertainment district. Two days later, on May 25, a second strike of 502 "Superfortress" planes roared low over Tokyo, raining down some 4,000 tons of explosives. Together these two B-29 raids destroyed 56 square miles of the Japanese capital.

Even before the Hiroshima attack, American air force General Curtis LeMay boasted that American bombers were "driving them [Japanese] back to the stone age." Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, commanding General of the Army air forces, declared in his 1949 memoirs: "It always appeared to us, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse." This was confirmed by former Japanese prime minister Fumimaro Konoye, who said: "Fundamentally, the thing that brought about the determination to make peace was the prolonged bombing by the B-29s."



If you are man enough....here is more of the truth:
Was Hiroshima Necessary?

More anti American left wing lies....the Japanese were refusing to surrender and had planned to resist any invasion of Jaapn to the last man, woman and child......causing us to take massive casualties.....left wing assholes sitting here in the time after the war have no fucking clue about that war or the monsters the Japanese were......

The author of the piece I posted is not left wing, nor am I. So, your entire post is BS.

They get their point of view from left wing historians.......

 

[2aguy]

There is no doubt the Japanese military committed horrible war crimes, but the A-bombings were also a war crime. There was little military activity in either city, which is why they had yet to be bombed. Truman choose to incinerate women, children, and old people. We Americans should not find this acceptable or admirable.

Politicians are the scum of the human race.

It took less than 5 seconds to determine the military aspects of Hiroshima........you guys have got to stop listening to left wing, anti American haters...like all left wingers...they lie.....they have to....the facts, the truth and reality never support their side of the argument...so the only thing they have is lying...

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Hiroshima was chosen as the first target due to its military and industrial values.

As a military target, Hiroshima was a major army base that housed the headquarters of the Japanese 5th Division and the 2nd Army Headquarters. It was also an important port in southern Japan and a communications center. The mountains surrounding Hiroshima also contributed to Hiroshima being among one of the top choices among the short list of potential targets, for that the mountains might contain the destructive forces of an atomic blast in the target area, increasing the level of destruction.

US Secretary of War Henry Stimson voiced successfully against the selection of Kyoto as a target, arguing that the city held cultural importance to the world; he also had a personal attachment to the city as he and his wife traveled to Kyoto on their honeymoon many years prior.

Prior to the bombing, the United States Army conducted many missions over Japanese cities that were composed of very few B-29 bombers. The purpose of such flights were to wear down the alertness of Japanese anti-aircraft defense crew, whether gunners or fighter pilots, so that when the atomic bomb attacks arrived, perhaps some of the Japanese would let their guards down.


------------------

The city of Nagasaki was one of the most important sea ports in southern Japan. Although it was not among the list of potential targets selected by Oppenheimer's committee, it was added later due to its significance as a major war production center for warships, munitions, and other equipment. This was the very reason why Sweeney hoped that Kokura would have clear weather for the attack, thus avoiding an attack on Nagasaki which housed a greater civilian population.



So...your whole post was completely, historically inaccurate.........both cities had military value and they tried to avoid hitting Nagasaki but had to because their original target was cloud covered and they needed the visual targeting for the bomb..........n ver, ever trust left anti Americans...

Civilian targets also have tactical purposes in war. The enemy's ability to wage war can be reduced if you destroy their food processing centers and their factories. Liberals think that war should be waged cleanly and surgically, surest way to lose a war I know.

Are you proud of what American leaders did to Japan?

Read this:
Apart from the moral questions involved, were the atomic bombings militarily necessary? By any rational yardstick, they were not. Japan already had been defeated militarily by June 1945. Almost nothing was left of the once mighty Imperial Navy, and Japan's air force had been all but totally destroyed. Against only token opposition, American war planes ranged at will over the country, and US bombers rained down devastation on her cities, steadily reducing them to rubble.

What was left of Japan's factories and workshops struggled fitfully to turn out weapons and other goods from inadequate raw materials. (Oil supplies had not been available since April.) By July about a quarter of all the houses in Japan had been destroyed, and her transportation system was near collapse. Food had become so scarce that most Japanese were subsisting on a sub-starvation diet.

On the night of March 9-10, 1945, a wave of 300 American bombers struck Tokyo, killing 100,000 people. Dropping nearly 1,700 tons of bombs, the war planes ravaged much of the capital city, completely burning out 16 square miles and destroying a quarter of a million structures. A million residents were left homeless.

On May 23, eleven weeks later, came the greatest air raid of the Pacific War, when 520 giant B-29 "Superfortress" bombers unleashed 4,500 tons of incendiary bombs on the heart of the already battered Japanese capital. Generating gale-force winds, the exploding incendiaries obliterated Tokyo's commercial center and railway yards, and consumed the Ginza entertainment district. Two days later, on May 25, a second strike of 502 "Superfortress" planes roared low over Tokyo, raining down some 4,000 tons of explosives. Together these two B-29 raids destroyed 56 square miles of the Japanese capital.

Even before the Hiroshima attack, American air force General Curtis LeMay boasted that American bombers were "driving them [Japanese] back to the stone age." Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, commanding General of the Army air forces, declared in his 1949 memoirs: "It always appeared to us, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse." This was confirmed by former Japanese prime minister Fumimaro Konoye, who said: "Fundamentally, the thing that brought about the determination to make peace was the prolonged bombing by the B-29s."



If you are man enough....here is more of the truth:
Was Hiroshima Necessary?

Hey genius.......did you read your own quote.....even with that massive damage by normal munitions........they still refused to surrender.........until we dropped those bombs...

You left wing fucktards have no concept of reality.

Kill innocents because their imperial leaders won't surrender.

Makes sense to idiots and warmongers.

No moron.....destroying military targets that have civilians around them is the cost of war...especially when you started the war.......and refuse to surrender no matter how many of your own, innocent civilians are paying for your aggression with their lives.....the Japanese could have stopped the war at anytime...they chose not to....those lives are on their heads, not ours....

 

[there4eyeM]

A lesson in moral relativism (again).

A lesson in the propensity of most on the right to lie, again.

It is just that the honor of America is so besmirched by this episode that the shame is unbearable for the unsophisticated pseudo-patriots who cannot fathom nuance or objectivity. A juvenile affection for an imagined country blinds them to any adult evaluation.

 

[2aguy]

A lesson in moral relativism (again).

A lesson in the propensity of most on the right to lie, again.

It is just that the honor of America is so besmirched by this episode that the shame is unbearable for the unsophisticated pseudo-patriots who cannot fathom nuance or objectivity. A juvenile affection for an imagined country blinds them to any adult evaluation.

No...morons like you make no adult evaluations........you couldn't have your position if you did....

 

[2aguy]

There is no doubt the Japanese military committed horrible war crimes, but the A-bombings were also a war crime. There was little military activity in either city, which is why they had yet to be bombed. Truman choose to incinerate women, children, and old people. We Americans should not find this acceptable or admirable.

Politicians are the scum of the human race.

It took less than 5 seconds to determine the military aspects of Hiroshima........you guys have got to stop listening to left wing, anti American haters...like all left wingers...they lie.....they have to....the facts, the truth and reality never support their side of the argument...so the only thing they have is lying...

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Hiroshima was chosen as the first target due to its military and industrial values.

As a military target, Hiroshima was a major army base that housed the headquarters of the Japanese 5th Division and the 2nd Army Headquarters. It was also an important port in southern Japan and a communications center. The mountains surrounding Hiroshima also contributed to Hiroshima being among one of the top choices among the short list of potential targets, for that the mountains might contain the destructive forces of an atomic blast in the target area, increasing the level of destruction.

US Secretary of War Henry Stimson voiced successfully against the selection of Kyoto as a target, arguing that the city held cultural importance to the world; he also had a personal attachment to the city as he and his wife traveled to Kyoto on their honeymoon many years prior.

Prior to the bombing, the United States Army conducted many missions over Japanese cities that were composed of very few B-29 bombers. The purpose of such flights were to wear down the alertness of Japanese anti-aircraft defense crew, whether gunners or fighter pilots, so that when the atomic bomb attacks arrived, perhaps some of the Japanese would let their guards down.


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The city of Nagasaki was one of the most important sea ports in southern Japan. Although it was not among the list of potential targets selected by Oppenheimer's committee, it was added later due to its significance as a major war production center for warships, munitions, and other equipment. This was the very reason why Sweeney hoped that Kokura would have clear weather for the attack, thus avoiding an attack on Nagasaki which housed a greater civilian population.



So...your whole post was completely, historically inaccurate.........both cities had military value and they tried to avoid hitting Nagasaki but had to because their original target was cloud covered and they needed the visual targeting for the bomb..........n ver, ever trust left anti Americans...

Civilian targets also have tactical purposes in war. The enemy's ability to wage war can be reduced if you destroy their food processing centers and their factories. Liberals think that war should be waged cleanly and surgically, surest way to lose a war I know.

Are you proud of what American leaders did to Japan?

Read this:
Apart from the moral questions involved, were the atomic bombings militarily necessary? By any rational yardstick, they were not. Japan already had been defeated militarily by June 1945. Almost nothing was left of the once mighty Imperial Navy, and Japan's air force had been all but totally destroyed. Against only token opposition, American war planes ranged at will over the country, and US bombers rained down devastation on her cities, steadily reducing them to rubble.

What was left of Japan's factories and workshops struggled fitfully to turn out weapons and other goods from inadequate raw materials. (Oil supplies had not been available since April.) By July about a quarter of all the houses in Japan had been destroyed, and her transportation system was near collapse. Food had become so scarce that most Japanese were subsisting on a sub-starvation diet.

On the night of March 9-10, 1945, a wave of 300 American bombers struck Tokyo, killing 100,000 people. Dropping nearly 1,700 tons of bombs, the war planes ravaged much of the capital city, completely burning out 16 square miles and destroying a quarter of a million structures. A million residents were left homeless.

On May 23, eleven weeks later, came the greatest air raid of the Pacific War, when 520 giant B-29 "Superfortress" bombers unleashed 4,500 tons of incendiary bombs on the heart of the already battered Japanese capital. Generating gale-force winds, the exploding incendiaries obliterated Tokyo's commercial center and railway yards, and consumed the Ginza entertainment district. Two days later, on May 25, a second strike of 502 "Superfortress" planes roared low over Tokyo, raining down some 4,000 tons of explosives. Together these two B-29 raids destroyed 56 square miles of the Japanese capital.

Even before the Hiroshima attack, American air force General Curtis LeMay boasted that American bombers were "driving them [Japanese] back to the stone age." Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, commanding General of the Army air forces, declared in his 1949 memoirs: "It always appeared to us, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse." This was confirmed by former Japanese prime minister Fumimaro Konoye, who said: "Fundamentally, the thing that brought about the determination to make peace was the prolonged bombing by the B-29s."



If you are man enough....here is more of the truth:
Was Hiroshima Necessary?

Do you realize who the author of this piece is? Mark Weber.....did you look him up.....

Mark Weber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mark Edward Weber (born October 9, 1951) is the director of the Institute for Historical Review,[1] an American Holocaust denial[2] organization based in Newport Beach, California.

Weber has been associated with the IHR since the 1980s. In 1992 he became editor-in-chief of the IHR's Journal of Historical Review. Weber was subsequently named the institute's Director in 1995.[3]

Institute for Historical Review - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Institute for Historical Review (IHR), founded in 1978, is an organization primarily devoted to publishing and promoting books and essays described by critics as pseudo-historical that attack the mainstream historical consensus concerning the Nazi genocide of Jews.[2][3][4][5][6] It is considered by many scholars as the center of the international Holocaust denial movement.[2][7][8] IHR is widely regarded as antisemitic and as having links to neo-Nazi organizations. The Institute published the Journal of Historical Review until 2002, but now disseminates its materials through its website and via email. The Institute is affiliated with the Legion for the Survival of Freedom and Noontide Press.[9]

 

[Jarlaxle]

The Japanese got off easy. After the war ended, we forgave all but a few of their leaders and then they built a prosperous industrial nation under American military protection, which meant they paid almost nothing for their own defense.

It would not have been inappropriate to have simply executed every member of the Japanese military above the rank of army Captain or navy Lt. Commander, as well as each and every member of the imperial family and the government. (In fact, that is EXACTLY what should have happened.) The country should have been reduced to a permanently-impoverished, deindustrialized third world country for a century.

 

[Jarlaxle]

To paraphrase Jesus, it is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him, but what comes out.
Thank you (again).

And Jesus also said...
1 Samuel 15:3 'Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’

No, that is wrong. (The Book of Samuel is the Old Testament!)

 

[Jarlaxle]

So, being as evil as Japan would make one....

No one was as evil as Japan, idiot.

Pablum. Off the top of my head: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

 

[Unkotare]

The Japanese got off easy. After the war ended, we forgave all but a few of their leaders and then they built a prosperous industrial nation under American military protection, which meant they paid almost nothing for their own defense.

It would not have been inappropriate to have simply executed every member of the Japanese military above the rank of army Captain or navy Lt. Commander, as well as each and every member of the imperial family and the government. (In fact, that is EXACTLY what should have happened.) The country should have been reduced to a permanently-impoverished, deindustrialized third world country for a century.

emo-troll

 

[Jarlaxle]

Pure projection.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Reagan honors Hitler's SS in Bitburg, Germany, May 5, 1985 ...

 

[Syriusly]

Let’s correct that oversight, to help the President understand why moral equivalence is the dim refuge of lazy minds, and equating American troops with the Axis forces they defeated is an outrage.

Another Conservative pissed off that President Obama never apologized at Hiroshima.

LOL

 

[Unkotare]

A lesson in moral relativism (again).

No twit........the Empire of Japan was evil......and refused to surrender even when it was defeated........and wasting American lives ending the war would have been insane.....

You're misinformed.