Shock and Awe

that's Shock and Awe

Adding pics of the thousands that Saddam himself killed is even

I don't think anyone is supporting Saddam's regime by opposing war and by suggesting so, you are simply falling into the propaganda quagmire laid by the coalition of the willing. I find 'shock-ier' that Hiroshima and Nagasaki occured at the hands of 'one nation under God' myself when Japan had all but surrendered. But what do I know?

Very little. I just _love_ history-revisionists.

I think the Japanese now understand our culture well enough to avoid such communications difficulties in the future.

As for being sensitive, the attack on Pearl just blew everybody's sensitivity meter all to hell.

Bullshit Bullshit, capital B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T. Know what Hirohito's military council's reaction to Hiroshma was ? Two words : 'So What ?'

The question you and everyone else completely fails to answer in this argument is why a country on the verge of surrender would have to be nuked TWICE before getting it through their thick skulls.

We're discussing the Japanese in WWII. Don't chitter away about 'sensitivity' to me.

The Americans are very sensitive indeed. But with banks of nukes and huge army to protect you, a soft centre is inevitable, I guess

Its okay, you have completely swallowed the propaganda line. It's to be expected. Its the line the Americans have to swallow because the truth is a lot more sordid and awful than can be sold. You can't spin it. Just look at the historical record Bleech, especially in the months leading up to the nukes being dropped.

Of course. Truman wanted to have the US forever branded war criminals by some historical-revisionist knuckle-heads decades after the fact. And he actually enjoyed killing for the sake of killing. Hell, we all do. We're all bloodthirsty! The scales have fallen from my eyes. Thanks for releasing me from my brainwashing. Oh, wait. I just came down from my acid trip. Phew!

War criminals after the fact. Certainly by modern standards it was a war crime, without any doubt whatsoever. You see, the US govt would not drop two nuclear bombs on innocent civilians in such circumstances again. Will they?

You have scales over your eyes? Is that a radiation induced mutation? Does it hurt?