Reply #41: Wow, revisionist history.

[proteus_lives]

And utter bullshit. It was a legitimate military operation in a declared war. The Japanese were offered terms of surrender, they refused. This article also discounts the the land invasion scenario, the Russian desire for Japanese possession and other factors. It's just a desperate attempt to paint the USA as the aggressor. Ooooh, look comrades, evil capitalists! :eyes:

Here's were I stopped taking this article seriously.

"Truman's chief of staff, Admiral William Leahy, stated in his memoirs that “the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender.”

At the time though, Washington cold-bloodedly decided to obliterate the lives of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children to show off the terrible power of its new super weapon and underline the US rulers' ruthless preparedness to use it.

These terrible acts were intended to warn the leaders of the Soviet Union that their cities would suffer the same fate if the USSR attempted to stand in the way of Washington's plans to create an “American Century” of US global domination. Nuclear scientist Leo Szilard recounted to his biographers how Truman's secretary of state, James Byrnes, told him before the Hiroshima attack that “Russia might be more manageable if impressed by American military might and that a demonstration of the bomb may impress Russia”. "

Bullshit, the Japanese were ready to surrender, why were they sneaking army units back to Japan from the mainland? Why were they preparing thousands of kamikaze planes and boats? Why were all men, women and children being organized into militias? Hell, even after the bombings there was massive resistant to surrender from the Japanese high command, including several coup attempts.


You know what was a bigger series of terror attacks? Japan's decades long rape of China and Korea. They're mistreatment of POWs, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the rape of Nanjing, The slaughter of Manila Bay, The Bataan Death March, the sexual slavery of the Comfort Women. Millions of dead Chinese, turning all of Korea into a slave factory, the enslavement of Indonesia and more. All with the endorsement and approval of the Japanese civilian population. It sickens me that people forgot why we dropped the bombs.

"The Capitalist Media" :rofl: I wonder if Mr. Dixon ever actually stepped foot in a communist country. Stalin was willing to cut the throats of his own children for nuclear weapons. Obviously he wanted them for peaceful reasons, not like those awful capitalists.