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Jack_Dawson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:16 PM Original message |
Why did we bomb Hiroshima again? |
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Chicago Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
1. We are a violent people who lies to ourselves because we are so |
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Jack_Dawson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. OMG that Springer stuff is rich |
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jonnyblitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
2. to save lives. sort of like fucking for virginity i guess... |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. I love that analogy.... |
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jonnyblitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:40 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. kind of crude though... |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:45 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Still Good. I am going to use it tonight |
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Chicago Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
3. I want DU to help Amy Goodman strip William Laurence of 1946 Pultizer |
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jeff30997 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
4. The Japanese were ready to surrender but... |
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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:44 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. Really? |
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moof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 04:53 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. here's a link |
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Robeson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
5. We did it to show Stalin we had "the Bomb".... |
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izzie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
6. To save people being killed. Western people that is |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
8. Dresden - 25,000-35,000 deaths. |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:44 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. You have to put things into perspective..... |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 04:07 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. I have a pretty good perspective, thanks. |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 04:09 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Didn't say everything we did was right in the past...... |
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Quagmire05 (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
10. i remember reading somewhere |
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William769 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
15. They awoke the sleeping giant. |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 05:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. same here; I noticed on the news today the Japanese had a |
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LibMod (432 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
16. Would you have preferred 500,000 more U.S.war dead? |
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CanuckAmok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
17. Short answer: practice. |
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prole_for_peace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
20. because we could. |
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khashka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
21. We didn't bomb Hiroshima again |
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