The Nuking of Nagasaki: Even More Immoral and Unnecessary than Hiroshima

[RetiredGySgt]

But not the advice the gunny says he needed

Liar I never said any such thing,

 

[RetiredGySgt]

"Walter Trohan, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune with impeccable credentials for integrity and accuracy, reported that two days before President Roosevelt left for the Yalta conference with Churchill and Stalin in early February 1945, he was shown a forty-page memorandum drafted by General MacArthur outlining a Japanese offer for surrender almost identical with the terms subsequently concluded by his successor, President Truman. The single difference was the Japanese insistence on retention of the emperor, which was not acceptable to the American strategists at the time, though it was ultimately allowed in the final peace terms. Trohan relates that he was given a copy of this communication by Admiral Leahy who swore him to secrecy with the pledge not to release the story until the war was over. Trohan honored his pledge and reported his story in the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Times-Herald on August 19, 1945. According to historian Anthony Kubek, Roosevelt, in the presence of witnesses, read the memorandum and dismissed it with a curt "MacArthur is our greatest general and our poorest politician."

The Bomb Was Not Necessary

With the sixty-fifth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb almost upon us, there is undoubtedly going to be a flood of commentary on the wisdom of its use by the United States during World War II. The justified scolding of Charles Pellegrino and his The Last Train From Hiroshima...

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And yet no such document appears anywhere in the US Government records nor any mention od such a document, Nor in the Japanese documents either,

 

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The military generals disagreed

Wasn't their call.

 

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But we didnt need the bombs to end the war

They weren't going to surrender any other way. It was the lesser of two evils.

 

[Vegasgiants]

They weren't going to surrender any other way. It was the lesser of two evils.

Not according to our military leaders

 

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Not according to our military leaders

Path not taken. It was the lesser of two evils. Truman made the right call.

 

[Vegasgiants]

Path not taken. It was the lesser of two evils. Truman made the right call.

The military leaders disagree with you

 

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The military leaders disagree with you

Couldn't care less. They followed their orders and that's all that mattered.

 

[Vegasgiants]

Couldn't care less. They followed their orders and that's all that mattered.

Dont care. Got it

 

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Dont care. Got it

Exactly. It was the lesser of two evils. Now you are getting it.

 

[Vegasgiants]

Exactly. It was the lesser of two evils. Now you are getting it.

I dont care

 

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I dont care

My work here is done.

 

[Vegasgiants]

My work here is done.

Good. See ya

 

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Good. See ya

Count on it.

 

[Vegasgiants]

Count on it.

Okay dokey pokey

 

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Okay dokey pokey

 

[Vegasgiants]

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Ooooh a picture. Lol

 

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Ooooh a picture. Lol

Yeah... in living color no less. It was really the best thing that could have happened to Japan.

 

[Vegasgiants]

Yeah... in living color no less. It was really the best thing that could have happened to Japan.

Not according to our military leaders

 

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Not according to our military leaders

You mean the ones who dropped not one nuclear bomb on Japan but two?