>We did what we had to do to end the war and to save our
>soldiers' lives.

This claim is nothing more
than a tautology that was
once regurgitated by every
mainstream U.S. historian
from Portland, Maine to
Portland, Oregon. Fact is,
with all the declassified
info now accessable to the
public on this atrocity, I
don't believe any serious
historian regards this as-
sertion to be an accurate
one.

If a lie is told often enough,
it slowly evolves into a truism.