314, RE: No it doesn't. Posted by Expertise, Sun Aug-08-04 10:11 AM
>It may not make a difference >to you but it did to high- >ranking officials at the time. >In a June 18, 1945 meeting with >Truman and his military advisors, >Assistant Secretary of War John >McCloy argued that Japan should be >permitted to retain the Emperor and >should be given a warning of the at- >omic bomb in order to bring an earlier >and less deadly surrender (Walter Millis, >ed., The Forrestal Diaries, pg. 70-71; >Len Giovannitti and Fred Freed, The Dec- >ision To Drop the Bomb, pg. 134-136).
And if they had, they would have let them know what was in the cards. If that bomb had been a dud or been dropped in the wrong spot (as it was in Nagasaki) it could have been seen as a bluff.
>Besides, after all was said and done, the >U.S. allowed the fake god to remain in >power. Thus, your arguement that the bomb >was necessary falls short of it's mark.
Only as a figurehead, not as a soverign leader. He had to answer to the Allied Supreme Commander. __________________________ "Most offensive quote from an anti-war activist - From Medea Benjamin, a "peace campaigner" from San Francisco, objecting to the gated demonstration area outside of Fleet Center: "We don't deserve to be put in a detention centre, a concentration camp." is a concentration camp, ninny. Now, go stand in a corner and grow some shame." -
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