76 Years Ago Today

[jaF0]

U.S. Forces murdered around 100,000 civilian non-combatants in cold blood.

To date, no one has been prosecuted.

 

[TJX]

Would those civilians be from the same country that attacked Pearl Harbor and help start WW2? Would that be the same war that killed upwards of 80 million people world wide? Would they be from the same country that enslaved Korean women for use as comfort women? Would they be from the same country that regularly executed their POWs? Would they be from the same country that fought to the death on islands such as Saipan, Okinawa and Iwo Jima causing 10's of thousands of American deaths?

I believe the correct perpetrators were prosecuted.

 

[Rightguide]

U.S. Forces murdered around 100,000 civilian non-combatants in cold blood.

To date, no one has been prosecuted.

Probably way more than 100,000, could have been millions, but so what? They asked for it.

 

[jaF0]

They asked for it.

That's like saying the office workers in NYC asked for some idiot to flay a plane into their desk.

 

[Rightguide]

That's like saying the office workers in NYC asked for some idiot to flay a plane into their desk.

No it isn't. Both were unprovoked attacks on America. What happened to the Japanese and the Germans was a punitive retaliation.

 

[pecksniff]

Did Sergeant Pepper teach the band to play?

 

[oggbashan]

The Japanese have a 'Peace park' at Hiroshima. Nowhere does it admit that Japan attacked the US without warning, or that they killed millions of Chinese...

 

[CornusKousa]

jaF0, so anti-American he's shaming the USA for fucking up it's enemies an a war.

I wonder if he's ever read up on Ishii Shiro's research facility in N. China.

Probably considers him a hero...After all, they shared so much information with Soviet comrades!! How could they be seen as anything but heroes???

LOL...what absolute fuckin' scum.

 

[CornusKousa]

The Japanese have a 'Peace park' at Hiroshima. Nowhere does it admit that Japan attacked the US without warning, or that they killed millions of Chinese...

And Koreans, Filipino, Samoans and other Polynesian/Pac-Islanders.

They were every bit as savage and callous as the Nazis. Old world style butchery and rape on an industrial era scale.

I'm not saying it was right, but if anyone in the 20th century had it coming, Japan and Germany are at the top of the fuckin' list.

 

[RobDownSouth]

U.S. Forces murdered around 100,000 civilian non-combatants in cold blood.

To date, no one has been prosecuted.

War is heck.

*nods*

 

[Rightguide]

Did Sergeant Pepper teach the band to play?

Before my time.

 

[pecksniff]

By the end of the war, Japanese civilians of both sexes were drilling as a militia for a last-ditch defense of the Home Islands -- and, since there were not enough rifles to go around, they were drilling with bamboo spears. If the Allies had launched a ground invasion, the gutters of every town in Japan would have run with Japanese blood. The body count from the atomic bombings was trivial by comparison.

 

[oggbashan]

If the Allies had invaded the Japanese mainland, the expected casualties were 1 million Allies and five million Japanese.

If the Allies had firebombed the Japanese cities as they had Toyko, the Japanese would have lost many more than in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The firebombing raids on Toyko killed possibly more than any atomic bomb although figures for deaths vary widely.

Those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind. The raids were legal under
the conventions of war existing at the time.

 

[SyLent]

U.S. Forces murdered around 100,000 civilian non-combatants in cold blood.

To date, no one has been prosecuted.

Good~!

 

[Rightguide]

If the Allies had invaded the Japanese mainland, the expected casualties were 1 million Allies and five million Japanese.

If the Allies had firebombed the Japanese cities as they had Toyko, the Japanese would have lost many more than in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The firebombing raids on Toyko killed possibly more than any atomic bomb although figures for deaths vary widely.

Those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind. The raids were legal under
the conventions of war existing at the time.

The actual kill ratio of Americans to Japanese was much higher. If a landing did take place, many of those fighting for Japan would not have been crack troops, the bulk of their best had already lost. Those who were left would be facing the largest, most formidable, most seasoned combat amphibious combat force, ever assembled. Would it have been costly, yes. There is no question the Atomic bombing of Japan saved more Japanese lives than it did American lives. So, there is that.

 

[oggbashan]

The justification for the atomic bombs was and is that they saved millions of lives. They did. They gave the Japanese a facing-saving excuse to surrender.

But without their Emperor's personal intervention they would probably have fought on and on...

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Yeah not feeling real sorry for them. Especially after the first bomb. Who the fuck sees something like that for the first time and says "Fuck you, I double dog dare you to drop another one!" instread of ya know, surrendering.

 

[WillJ8787]

That's like saying the office workers in NYC asked for some idiot to flay a plane into their desk.

I'm with you on this one...100%!

There never is an excuse for killing civilians enmass!

 

[JackLuis]

Japan could have surrendered after Iwo Jima. That would have saved a lot on both sides.

Tough titty, seys I.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

That's like saying the office workers in NYC asked for some idiot to flay a plane into their desk.

They totally deserved it for the unprovoked attacks the US conducted all over the middle east. Anyone who says otherwise is a tard.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Yeah not feeling real sorry for them. Especially after the first bomb. Who the fuck sees something like that for the first time and says "Fuck you, I double dog dare you to drop another one!" instread of ya know, surrendering.

The US knew the slopes were working on surrendering before the 1st bomb blast. The US just wanted to try out their new toys on lesser humans.

 

[jaF0]

The US knew the sl ....

The what?

 

[Cubantripod]

The US knew the slopes were working on surrendering before the 1st bomb blast. The US just wanted to try out their new toys on lesser humans.

The Japanese were not going to surrender. They believed there was honor in dying for the emperor. The bomb made them come to terms with the fact that they could face inhalation and rethink that. It saved more lives on each side.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

The what?

The lesser humans all you yanks seem to think deserved to die for what their military did.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

The Japanese were not going to surrender. They believed there was honor in dying for the emperor. The bomb made them come to terms with the fact that they could face inhalation and rethink that. It saved more lives on each side.

Not according to american history but facts arent taught in the us and a.