Yeah, we nuked the Japs

[WriterDom]

But how many of you wouldn't be here if we invaded Japan?

 

[lavender]

 

[WriterDom]

What a brilliant and compassionate way to start a thread. Fuckin' typical. [/QUOTE

come on lav, stand by your democrat man. ]

 

[Marxist]

But how many of you wouldn't be here if we invaded Japan?

I think Dom has one of those radios like Dennis Quaid in that movie where he receives news and voices in the past.

What was it called again? It's on the tip of my tongue.

 

[lavender]

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Yeah, we nuked the Japs

I think Dom has one of those radios like Dennis Quaid in that movie where he receives news and voices in the past.

What was it called again? It's on the tip of my tongue.

You mean a Ham Radio?

My dad had one of those when I was a kid too...

 

[SpectralDragoon]

Frequency?

 

[Marxist]

Frequency?

Thanx. I don't know why I couldn't think of that. Not a bad movie. Kinda heartwarming and stuff.

 

[WriterDom]

Re: Re: Yeah, we nuked the Japs

I think Dom has one of those radios like Dennis Quaid in that movie where he receives news and voices in the past.

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Who will be president of the U.S. at Alabama's next bowl game? Bush's second term might be pushing it. But look at Miami. You guys need to rat out Auburn.

 

[SpectralDragoon]

Thanx. I don't know why I couldn't think of that. Not a bad movie. Kinda heartwarming and stuff.

No problem. You're right, it was pretty decent. I've seen alot worse.

 

[Guest]

Thanx. I don't know why I couldn't think of that. Not a bad movie. Kinda heartwarming and stuff.

Oh, you wanted to know the name of the movie.....*smile*. I thought you meant the radio he had.

Moon

 

[sch00lteacher]

Right on WriterDom!


I am very glad we nuked them. And not for the reason you might think. I am glad that the human race has used these weapons once, and seen what they do. They were still very small and powerless compaired to the ones we have today.

I think that our knowing for a fact what happens has kept us from using them again. Take the Cuban Missle Crisis as an example. Neither the Russians or the USA was in a big hurry to launch the weapons, because we knew what they did. Now what if we didn't know? Whould the Russians have backed down? Who knows for sure.

And I think that an invasion of Japan back in 1945 would have cost us a lot of young lives. We were fighting a war. We did what was right.

 

[kotori]

To answer the original question: I would.

 

[Marxist]

To answer the original question: I would.

Me too, but I don't think that's the answer Dom wanted.

 

[on_the_verge]

But how many of you wouldn't be here if we invaded Japan?

Yeah, we also stole the American Indian's land and then they turned it into their own democracy and now *we* are pissed, ha!

I gave Pearl Harbor **** stars, but they missed 75% of the targets, like the U.S. military in Afghanistan, hmmm?

 

[KillerMuffin]

The decision to nuke Japan was made because no one really had a true idea of what kind of devestating effects nukes would have on a population.

The next stage of the War in the Pacific was to invade mainland Japan. Why? Because the only way to end the war with Japan was to get to the Emporer who decided to take over the world, starting with the US. He lived in Japan. Invading Japan would have been worse than Vietnam because the entire population were considered to represent the threat of being combatants. At that time women were never considered combatants, and certainly not children, but it was known that everyone on that island would fight as if in the Army.

So the decision was made.

And it's been done.

History CANNOT be changed. It can only be learned from. Assigning guilt to present day populations only leads to more turmoil. I am no more responsible for what the US did to the indians than Hecate is for what Hitler did to the Jews.

Learn from it, don't live in it.

 

[on_the_verge]

Muffin shut up and I was mocking the thread, sheesh!

Aren't *we* slaves to the media and what we are to believe in history? I believe there are more lies than truths, but anyone can claim things and change them all the same. After all, who supported the Taliban's and Afghanistan during the civil war with Russia? You don't have to live in it, just recognize it—more than nationalism and multi-faceted pride.