Reply #16: My DUH! I didn't really put together the poll question w/ your intro.

[scarletwoman]

I see what you're saying about loyalty to a Dem president, but to me, it's much more a matter of people's unexamined and unquestioning acceptance of the justifications for dropping the dropping the Bomb that have been pounded into our consciousness from the day it happened.

I was born in '49, the "America is the good guy" thing has been promulgated all our lives, but I started questioning that at a fairly early age when, in grade school, I somehow got my hands on a modest little book full of horrific photographs of the Japanese victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was indescribable and it seared my soul to see these images. for a long time I wept whenever I thought about it, I still do.

I stopped listening to the self-righteous justifications about the decision to drop the Bomb right then and there. I refused to believe that inflicting such horror on my fellow human beings could EVER be justified.

Not til years later did I come to understand the REAL reasons behind that decision, the truth that all the propaganda was designed to cover up. It was all for show, to keep the Soviet Union in line. An utterly cynical, morally bankrupt, and RACIST rationale to sacrifice thousands of innocent lives for geostrategic supremacy.

It disgusts me to see people still seeking to justify it. It is not now, nor ever was, justifiable. It was a wholly evil act.

sw