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263, lay off this dude...
Posted by LiShang52, Wed Aug-11-04 09:42 AM
everyone that posted ^ needs to be a little more educated. the bombing was absolutely the best way to end the war. an invasion of the japanese main islands would have killed waaay more japanese and waaaay more americans. they had woman and children armed with sharpened bamboo rods ready to fight an invasion. it would have been very ugly. also continuing the blockade could have taken years, and it was costly to the americans and the japanese. you could also argue that if the americans hadnt dropped the bomb in WW2, then they or the Russians would have used it later not knowing the cost tehey would pay. dropping a nuclear weapon at a time when multiple nations had them would have been far far worse. it was a terrible, terrible thing that happened but it sadly had to be done.

As far as the person who said why did germany have to apologize for the holocaust...you are an ignorant bastard. the two are so unrelated its not even funny. comparing a genocide of innocent people who did nothing to harm the nation to bombing a country who started hostilities is just not right. and fyi way more jews were murdered in the holocaust than japanese who died in the bombings.