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BurtWorm

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Thu Nov-06-03 11:59 AM
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134. There is no way you can prove conclusively that the murder of

Edited on Thu Nov-06-03 12:58 PM by BurtWorm

hundreds of thousands of civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was necessary to save the lives of your friend and many of our fathers, grandfathers, etc. There is just no way, unless you can come up with something more convincing than a friend's anecdote. (I've heard those anecdotes, too. They're a balm for guilty Americans' souls.) They were not the sole reasons for Japan's surrender. Nor was saving American lives from Japanese slaughter the only reason for dropping the bomb.

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