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In reply to the discussion: Hiroshima - quit lying to yourselves [View all]davidpdx
(22,000 posts)to fight the Japanese, Germans, and Italians. The truth is you weren't there and don't know how many bombs there were. I've heard varying numbers. The planes crashing or getting shot down were only one possible thing that could have gone wrong. The number of bombs we had after the war is irrelevant.
To flat out deny that the US had a plan to invade Japan is ludicrous. You are engaging in revisionist history by saying the bombings were inevitable and that there were no other plans.
The choice was either bomb the two cities or invade with troops. You and other's can keep pushing the idea that Japan was going to surrender or that we could have bombed them conventionally to get them to surrender.
Let me be very clear in what I am saying. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki quickly ended the war with Japan.