FOX Lies!! Barack Obama Pastor Wright

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Ferd

Agreed. the added comment that action in Japan was "without batting an eye" is an out and out lie, and of Jerimiah Wrights own invention.

Truman agonized over the decision for weeks before, and the remainder of his life after. It was not done as Wright suggests on some whim with blood lust as the motive.

but Foxnews lied because Wright heard some two bit former ambassedor say the words "Chickens come home to roost".

We were in a war.
We had been attacked by Japan.
The Japanese had vowed to fight to the death.
An invasion of Japan with a slow complete ground military operation and occupation was considered and the loss in both American and Japanese lives was considered.
The use of the Bomb was an option which saved many lives --both Japanese and American.

[Ferd]

Originally Posted by Sam

We were in a war.
We had been attacked by Japan.
The Japanese had vowed to fight to the death.
An invasion of Japan with a slow complete ground military operation and occupation was considered and the loss in both American and Japanese lives was considered.
The use of the Bomb was an option which saved many lives --both Japanese and American.

The number of One Million was American Casualties only. There is no telling how many Japanese were spared by the action.

Even the Japanese have stated as much.

[chosenbyone]

Originally Posted by Ferd

The number of One Million was American Casualties only. There is no telling how many Japanese were spared by the action.

Even the Japanese have stated as much.

Japan's civilian population were starving, which our nation must have known before dropping the bomb killing innocent people. I can't except that Jesus approved the killing of so many innocent civilians who were trying to survive massive food shortages.

FOXNEWS.COM HOME > POLITICS AP Poll: 60 Percent Say WWIII Is Likely
Sunday, July 24, 2005

Two-thirds of Americans say the use of atomic bombs was unavoidable. Only 20 percent of Japanese felt that way and three-fourths said it was not necessary. Just one-half of Americans approve of the use of the atomic bombs on Japan

But military instructor Hugh "D.J." Carlen, who lives near Fort Knox, Ky., said: "I don't think we really needed to do it. We darn near had the country starved to death. We could have effected a blockade."

Skepticism about the bombings is widespread in Japan.

"I often hear the bombings were not necessary," said Toyokazu Katsumi, a 27-year-old engineer from Yokohama. "They just wanted to experiment with them."

For 63-year-old Masashi Muroi of Tokyo, the attacks with atomic bombs "were mass, indiscriminate killings and perhaps violated international law."

For younger people, World War II is something seen only on newsreel footage, in the movies and in history books. For those who lived through it, the memories are vivid.

Hideko Mori, a 71-year-old Tokyo housewife, said that as a child in Nagano in central Japan, she and her neighbors had to take refuge to avoid American air raids.

"Around the time I was in the 5th grade, when we went to school, instead of attending classes, we plowed the school grounds and planted potatoes and pumpkins, and we dug up bomb shelters," she said.

[ChristopherHall]

Originally Posted by Sam

We were in a war.
We had been attacked by Japan.
The Japanese had vowed to fight to the death.
An invasion of Japan with a slow complete ground military operation and occupation was considered and the loss in both American and Japanese lives was considered.
The use of the Bomb was an option which saved many lives --both Japanese and American.

Some in the early church would argue that it would be better to surrender to a foriegn invader than to kill multiplied masses of innocent people.

I'm not saying I'm against our use of the bomb...I'm just considering another perspective beyond the Christian Nationalist perspective of the right wing.

[chosenbyone]

Originally Posted by Sam

We were in a war.
We had been attacked by Japan.
The Japanese had vowed to fight to the death.
An invasion of Japan with a slow complete ground military operation and occupation was considered and the loss in both American and Japanese lives was considered.
The use of the Bomb was an option which saved many lives --both Japanese and American.

Don't you think that we could have demonstrated the power of the A-bomb by dropping it in a remote area away from populated cities? We could have potentially avoided killing hundred of thousands of people by scaring the Japenese that their cities would be destroyed instead of using it the way we did.