Japan marks 76th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings

[theHawk]

Another 'scholar' who knows better than the military leaders of the day. Because......well, just because you really, really insist.

Yes, one military man doesn’t write history. Thousands of others agree the bomb was a good thing to use to save American lives.

 

[Unkotare]

Yes, one military man doesn’t write history. ....

Hiroshima: Military Voices of Dissent | Origins

Almost six decades after the fact, the 1945 unleashing of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima continues to be the subject of impassioned debate. Every year the bombing anniversary — which falls on August 6 — occasions heated exchanges between those who question the atomic bombing and those who adamantly...

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[theHawk]

Hiroshima: Military Voices of Dissent | Origins

Almost six decades after the fact, the 1945 unleashing of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima continues to be the subject of impassioned debate. Every year the bombing anniversary — which falls on August 6 — occasions heated exchanges between those who question the atomic bombing and those who adamantly...

origins.osu.edu

Yes I know, leftwingers are all butt hurt we didn’t send thousands of men to their deaths instead of just bombing them until they gave up.

 

[theHawk]

There it is. Dimwits like you always resort to this kind of illogical nonsense.

Oh that’s right, you’re probably not a real Japanese, you just like pretending to be one.

 

[Unkotare]

Yes I know, leftwingers are all butt hurt we didn’t send thousands of men to their deaths instead of just bombing them until they gave up.

The worst left winger of all DID send many more thousands of men to their deaths (and finally many, many more civilians) rather than even consider resolving the war before it came to that.

 

[theHawk]

The worst left winger of all DID send many more thousands of men to their deaths (and finally many, many more civilians) rather than even consider resolving the war before it came to that.

Do tell. This should be an interesting fiction.

 

[Unkotare]

Oh that’s right, you’re probably not a real Japanese, you just like pretending to be one.

I'm not any kind of Japanese, and I have never claimed otherwise. Your stupid assumptions are on you.

 

[Unkotare]

Do tell. This should be an interesting fiction.

Read the ******* thread. What the **** do you think we've been talking about for all these pages?

 

[Unkotare]

Article clipped from Chicago Tribune

Clipping found in Chicago Tribune published in Chicago, Illinois on 8/14/1965.

www.newspapers.com

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Article clipped from Chicago Tribune

Clipping found in Chicago Tribune published in Chicago, Illinois on 8/14/1965.

www.newspapers.com

Again a random news article that has no linked sources is worthless.

 

[JoeB131]

Riiiight, because them Japanese didn’t ever have any wars until evil white colonists corrupted them. My God how dumb can you be?

Did they have wars? Yup. Did they have wars of aggression against their neighbors? not really

Where did you go to school? Japan?

You probably believe the US didn’t nuke Germany because they were white, and only bombed Japan because of racism. That’s what my Japanese friends in college believed.

They were probably right. Now, putting aside the bomb wasn't available before VE Day, let's look at propaganda at the time.

Propaganda against Germany separated "Nazis" and "Good Germans". There were a lot of good Germans, the US government told my German-born grandparents who still had family in the "Old Country". We just had a problem with the Nazis.

The Japanese, on the other hand, were portrayed as sub-human monsters.

He was full of shit. The Japanese were not ready to surrender. You know, because they didn’t surrender even when given warnings. They didn’t surrender even after Hiroshima.

Facts are stubborn things, indeed.

The nukes did eventually convince them, and it saved millions of lives by preventing an all out invasion of the main islands.

Actually, the nukes weren't much of a factor at all. The deciding factor was the entry of the USSR into the war.

Now Japan was facing two or three new potential fronts against a battle-hardened army with a much more vicious attitude on how to treat enemy civilians.

 

[Man of Ethics]

This was a page in USA's long tradition of inhumanity.

Native American Genocide
American Slavery
Bombing of Japan
Murder of 1,500,000 civilians in Korean War
Murder of over 1,000,000 civilians in Vietnam War

 

[JoeB131]

Article clipped from Chicago Tribune

Clipping found in Chicago Tribune published in Chicago, Illinois on 8/14/1965.

www.newspapers.com

1965. 20 years after the war when everyone was good friends now and really regretted some of the things they had to do.

 

[eagle7-31]

Did they have wars? Yup. Did they have wars of aggression against their neighbors? not really



They were probably right. Now, putting aside the bomb wasn't available before VE Day, let's look at propaganda at the time.

Propaganda against Germany separated "Nazis" and "Good Germans". There were a lot of good Germans, the US government told my German-born grandparents who still had family in the "Old Country". We just had a problem with the Nazis.

The Japanese, on the other hand, were portrayed as sub-human monsters.



Actually, the nukes weren't much of a factor at all. The deciding factor was the entry of the USSR into the war.

Now Japan was facing two or three new potential fronts against a battle-hardened army with a much more vicious attitude on how to treat enemy civilians.

Pearl Harbor. That was the main reason though probably not the only one why Japan was viewed differently from Germany in WWII.

 

[JoeB131]

I'm not any kind of Japanese, and I have never claimed otherwise. Your stupid assumptions are on you.

Yes, you only use the name of a weird Japanese Fetish as a screen name and a picture of a Japanese actor.

 

[Flash]

Read the ******* thread. What the **** do you think we've been talking about for all these pages?

Mostly, what an idiot you are for taking the side of the filthy ass Japs.

 

[JoeB131]

Pearl Harbor. That was the main reason though probably not the only one why Japan was viewed differently from Germany in WWII.

I'll admit, it was A reason. So was racism.

 

[Flash]

This was a page in USA's long tradition of inhumanity.

Native American Genocide
American Slavery
Bombing of Japan
Murder of 1,500,000 civilians in Korean War
Murder of over 1,000,000 civilians in Vietnam War

Killing over 100,000 civilian Southerns in the Civil War.

 

[Man of Ethics]

Killing over 100,000 civilian Southerns in the Civil War.

Civilians? Source?

 

[eagle7-31]

I'll admit, it was A reason. So was racism.

The race issue cut both ways.