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--- Bob Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (Synopsis)
You have a very warped view of history.
You seem to forget that the Japanese wiped out
Pearl Harbor and murdered thousands of people both
military and civilian.
Just where do you get this hypothesis
that the bombings of these two cities were
> propaganda? It was to prevent an
> invasion of Honshu which would have resulted in
> millions of deaths on both sides."
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Nakano comments:
A few historical facts.
Franklin Roosevelt ran as the "peace candidate"
in the 1940 election. He said: "I have said it before,
and I say it again and again....I am not about to
send your sons to fight and die in another European
war." The American People were strongly against
the U.S. entering World War 2.
Something dramatic and shocking was needed to turn
public opinion around.
In about June of 1941 Roosevelt halted U.S. oil
exports to Japan. (Denial of a strategic resource)
Japan has no oil of its own. They were getting about
half of their imports from the U.S. when FDR cut off
their supply.
That same summer or early fall, Roosevelt closed
the Panama Canal to Japanese ships. The U.S. had
guaranteed canal access to all nations, but FDR
ignored that promise.
In November of 1941, Roosevelt gave Japan an
ultimatum to get their military forces out of
Manchuria.
Roosevelt was shoving and pushing Japan....daring
the Japanese to take a swing at us.
They finally did on December 7th, 1941.
Indeed it was a "day of infamy".
2,500 U.S. military personnel died in the attack
on Pearl Harbor.
They were sacrificed by Roosevelt in order to
reverse public opinion about America entering
the war.
It worked.
In 1 day, the American People went from 80 percent
opposed to the war....to demanding that the U.S.
declare war. An entire generation of young American
men lined up at the draft board offices to enlist.
So much for the so-called "unprovoked sneak-attack".
As for the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan.
It was unnecessary.
Nor would an invasion of Japan been necessary.
The Japanese navy was on the bottom of the ocean.
Every Japanese city of any consequence was in ruins.
More people were killed in the conventional firebomb
raids on Tokyo than were killed at either Nagasaki
or Hiroshima.
American naval and airpower had Japan in an
inescapable stranglehold.
Japan is an island nation lacking in many resources
such as iron ore, coal, and oil.
All we had to do was keep Japan encircled....
and wait.
The surrender was inevitable.
Instead, we became the only nation in history
to use atomic weapons against another country.
Truman ordered those bombs dropped on an already
beaten....and virtually defenseless people.
The fact is, not a single japanese aircraft
rose in the sky to challenge the Enola Gay B-29
that dropped the bomb.
They were helpless and we bombed them anyway.
Nakano
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