Assalamu aleikum. The American sheeple once again hypocritically endorsed this week the atomic terror holocaust of hundreds of thousands of Hiroshima civilians, nothwithstanding the fact that 20 US POWs were also murdered in the slaughter.
Adopting a macabre version of reality, these same sheeple have adapted to politics Mel Brooks' famous dictum ["Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall down an open manhole cover and die."] and spend much time decrying "Muslim terrorism" and "attacks on civilians" while fully supporting terrorism and attacks on civilians - as long as the terrorism is directed against a foreign foe, especially one with a different skin colour. --- Sixty years on, Americans support Hiroshima bombing By Paul Eckert, Asia Correspondent Reuters 05 Aug 2005 http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N05563217.htm CHANTILLY, Va., Aug 5 (Reuters) - Sixty years after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War Two, most Americans support the decision to use the bombs on Japan, interviews and a poll showed on Friday. At a cavernous aviation museum west of Washington, a steady stream of tourists filed by the Enola Gay, the American B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on the western Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. The shiny silver bomber, with a wingspan of 141 feet(43 metres) and a loaded weight of 140,000 pounds (63,500 kilograms) dominates a hangar filled with historic military and civil aircraft, ranging from a Japanese kamikaze plane to the first passenger jet to the supersonic Concorde. Air Force veteran Greg Culpepper, 55, a tourist from North Carolina, said he had no doubt that President Harry Truman did the right thing 60 years ago. "If it hadn't been for Truman dropping that bomb, just think of how many Americans would have been killed if we had had to invade," he said. "We're a peace-loving people and we don't want war, but if push comes to shove, you gotta do what you gotta do," said Culpepper, who served in Thailand during the Vietnam War. The Enola Gay's 10,000-pound (4,500 kg) uranium 235 bomb instantly killed about 78,000 people and the bombing had claimed about 140,000 lives by the end of 1945. Florida dentist Robert Gleiber, an amateur World War Two historian and collector of Enola Gay memorabilia, said Japan's civilian losses were regrettable but had to be weighed against the alternative of a bloody invasion of that country. "Truman was responsible for saving hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives both Japanese and American," he said. "The Japanese were fanatics and they were going to fight to the last man." The views of randomly chosen visitors to Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Virginia squared with a Gallup Poll of 1,010 adults released this week. The telephone poll showed that 57 percent approved of the use of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while 38 percent said they disapproved. Gallup said the new poll numbers changed only slightly from 1995, when 59 percent said they approved and 38 percent voiced disapproval. San Francisco high school student Chelsea Gelbart, 14, on a guided tour with her family, broke ranks with her American elders on the wisdom of using atomic bombs against Japan. "Even though it was a war, it was a disaster and not something to be proud of with the death toll so high," she said. Gelbart said the United States should have demonstrated the bomb over the ocean to convince Japan to surrender. The Smithsonian began restoring what was a rotting Enola Gay in the 1980s and planned to feature it an exhibition in 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of the war's end. But the display was canceled after a firestorm of criticism from veterans and members of Congress, who argued that Smithsonian historians had revised history to portray Japan as the victim and U.S. soldiers in a negative light. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N05563217.htm *************************************************************************** {Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. 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