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CONN (249 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-05-05 08:04 PM Original message |
Hiroshima remembers atomic bomb |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-05-05 08:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. Thank you CONN, we must never forget. |
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liberaltrucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-05-05 08:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Nice comments you had on the other Hiroshima thread |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-05-05 09:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Thanks libt, I just feel |
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Maple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-05-05 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
3. The Hiroshima Cover-Up |
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CONN (249 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-05-05 09:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Alt link for "The Hiroshima Cover-Up" (no registration) |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-05-05 08:51 PM Response to Original message |
4. If you have Sundance ... |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-05-05 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
7. And Japan STILL continues to ignore the fact that THEY started the war |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-05-05 10:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. this is NOT about who STARTED the war it was how we, the VICTORS, choose |
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Erika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 01:08 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. We bombed an innocent civilian populace |
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MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 01:25 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. History ...well, why did we bomb Japan? |
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Erika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 01:35 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor - A military base |
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MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 01:50 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. I don't believe most of us here are comfortable with that. |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 11:14 AM Response to Reply #13 |
31. not according to this DU poll - LINK - which is truly shocking to me... |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 11:25 AM Response to Reply #11 |
33. Wrong! Both cities had large military installations plus heavy industry |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 11:31 AM Response to Reply #33 |
36. they were defeated and suing for peace... |
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Walt Starr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 10:30 PM Response to Reply #36 |
59. They WERE NOT suing for peace |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 11:25 AM Response to Reply #11 |
34. Wrong! Both cities had large military installations plus heavy industry |
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Walt Starr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 10:16 PM Response to Reply #11 |
56. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both MILITARY cities and.. |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 01:48 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. To scare Stalin |
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MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 01:58 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Russia (USSR)was our ally in WWII. Japan was most certainly not. |
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Erika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 02:05 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. We still had no justification for bombing populace centers |
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MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 02:18 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Maybe, maybe not. I wasn't there. Nor were you. |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 11:18 AM Response to Reply #16 |
32. but these military leader were and they said they were not necessary... |
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MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 12:11 PM Response to Reply #32 |
41. Well..all right then. Whoa, did I get an education. DUers are great. |
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Walt Starr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 10:18 PM Response to Reply #41 |
57. You were fed a line of revisionist history bullshit |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 11:45 PM Response to Reply #57 |
66. So post some evidence then. |
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MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 07:27 PM Response to Reply #57 |
85. I gotcha. I always carry around my shaker of salt. But it is interesting |
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Robo12 (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 12:05 AM Response to Reply #15 |
71. Yea, Just let my father die and |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 02:20 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. And shrub invaded Iraq to get Al Qaeda? |
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MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 02:42 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Your last sentence doesn't make a lot of sense. |
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psychopomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 11:49 PM Response to Reply #14 |
67. You don't seem to understand WWII history |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 06:51 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. Ding! Ding! Ding! |
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Massacure (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 08:12 AM Response to Reply #9 |
25. We did bomb a military base. |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 10:07 PM Response to Reply #25 |
55. no, we NUKED 2 of their CITIES |
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Walt Starr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 10:18 PM Response to Reply #55 |
58. THEY WERE NOT SUING FOR PEACE!!! |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 10:39 PM Response to Reply #58 |
64. i always have been taught that russia WAS an ally during that war |
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Robo12 (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 12:07 AM Response to Reply #25 |
72. The bomb missed by over a mile, though. |
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Robo12 (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 12:02 AM Response to Reply #9 |
69. Get a grip |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 05:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
51. There is plenty they have yet to even admit, especially what they did |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 10:35 PM Response to Reply #51 |
62. So, should the US not have memorials to our dead? |
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CONN (249 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 06:23 AM Response to Reply #7 |
19. Collective guilt... |
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livinginphotographs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 06:38 AM Response to Reply #7 |
20. I assume you feel no sympathy for the victims of 9-11? |
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CONN (249 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 06:52 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. You missed my point... |
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livinginphotographs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 07:17 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Didn't mean to respond to you. |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 11:28 AM Response to Reply #20 |
35. I feel sorry for ALL victims of war. But war is hell. |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 11:34 AM Response to Reply #35 |
39. what a crass rw justification for indiscriminate murder of civilians |
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Violet_Crumble (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 01:55 AM Response to Reply #35 |
77. The civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasake weren't criminals... |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 10:30 PM Response to Reply #7 |
60. Wow considering what the US has done to other peoples... |
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Robo12 (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 11:59 PM Response to Reply #7 |
68. "And Japan STILL continues to ignore the fact that THEY started the war |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 01:26 AM Response to Reply #68 |
75. You obviously know nothing about history |
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Violet_Crumble (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 02:02 AM Response to Reply #68 |
78. That's bullshit... |
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Euphen (209 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 01:46 AM Response to Reply #7 |
76. The people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not start the war. |
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mn723 (46 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 10:18 AM Response to Reply #7 |
84. I have to agree |
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splat@14 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 07:47 AM Response to Original message |
24. Shouldn't there be a memorial for this in the US? |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 11:31 AM Response to Reply #24 |
37. Right - as soon as THEY erect a memorial for all their atrocities in JAPAN |
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splat@14 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 02:11 PM Response to Reply #37 |
45. Agree, they should. I view the use of a nuclear device in a |
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Violet_Crumble (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 02:09 AM Response to Reply #24 |
80. There was a scaled down exhibit on the 50th anniversary... |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 03:14 AM Response to Reply #80 |
81. Obviously the author of that article is a revisionist who hates America |
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splat@14 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 08:54 AM Response to Reply #80 |
82. My thoughts on this don't really have much to with Japan and WWII, |
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fujiyama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 08:14 AM Response to Original message |
26. Kuizimi talking about peace is hard to stomach |
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psychopomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 12:03 AM Response to Reply #26 |
70. While you are right about PM Koizumi being hard to stomach |
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Theres-a (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
27. LA times article |
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dArKeR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
28. People stage a die in in front of Atomic Bomb Dome |
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applepicker (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
29. The real butchers are the Japanese |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 11:05 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. others crimes NEVER justify our own, sorry... |
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applepicker (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 01:08 PM Response to Reply #30 |
43. Never Did I Attempt To Justify Anything |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 03:38 PM Response to Reply #43 |
49. you brought it up |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 06:09 PM Response to Reply #43 |
52. agree, check my post 51 |
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psychopomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 12:21 AM Response to Reply #52 |
73. double-post |
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psychopomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 12:21 AM Response to Reply #52 |
74. As well as we |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 10:37 PM Response to Reply #43 |
63. OK, stand at the WTC and shout out the atrocities the US has commited. |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 09:15 AM Response to Reply #29 |
83. They bad guys, we good guys |
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no_to_war_economy (962 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
38. in one day we fire bombed Tokyo and killed a minimum of 80,000 |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 11:39 AM Response to Reply #38 |
40. nuclear weapons is a completely different horror, the bomb that keeps on |
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no_to_war_economy (962 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 12:26 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. I am just saying that why would you expect the US govt |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 02:49 PM Response to Reply #42 |
48. and i am point out the LARGE differences between the 2 |
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sintax (891 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 02:43 PM Response to Reply #40 |
47. "The technology is too sweet" |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
44. AOL poll I noticed this morning: Was dropping it "right thing to do?" |
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Cori Cycle (31 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 02:21 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Well you know... |
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CONN (249 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 04:37 PM Response to Reply #44 |
50. Poll link - 57% approved |
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Chicago Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
53. I'm so sorry Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic innocents killed! |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
54. In modern, industrial war.... |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 10:32 PM Response to Reply #54 |
61. Well, our taxes go to support the illegal war in Iraq... |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-06-05 10:52 PM Response to Reply #61 |
65. Would the workers who make bombs... |
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Violet_Crumble (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-05 02:04 AM Response to Reply #61 |
79. Using the logic of some in this thread, the answer would be yes... |
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