Why didn?t we warn Japan we would use the bomb if they didn?t surrender?
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It just amazes me the thread starter and several people in here completely have no idea what happened during World War II. Somehow I suspect there is some anti-American sentiment behind some of the postings and probably the thread starter. Any third grader in most civilized nations knows the conventional history of World War II. I think anti-American sentiment is driving a movement to revise history and make all the United States good deeds look like simple propaganda. After all the good the people and government of the United States has done for most of the world, liberating countries from tyranical rule, given more humanitarian aid than all the countries of the world combined, etc. This country isnt perfect and we make mistakes but we make them with good intentions in mind.Comment
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well those dirty fucking japs were part of the "axis of evil" a group of dirty fucks that killed over 6 million jews throughout Europe....so you tell me who has blood on their fucking hands......dirty fucking dictator and the cocksucking jap emporer deserved everything they got!Comment
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idiotOr use it in a non or lesser populated area of japan, rather than on 80k civilians? At least the burden of all of those deaths would fall squarely on japan. i dont think the result would have been much different from our end, except that there is a chance, albeit small, that we could have saved those civilian lives.
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then your german friends must be your age
cause nowadays it's a big topic - of course. unfortunately not many kids are interested in it though - which is a shame.
i'm not a fan of feeling guilty just cause i'm german - i'm too young for that. but at least history may not be forgotten to learn from it for the future.
which would btw apply to a lot of other countries too
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but it would have been a nice move - maybe then i would have met the other half of my familySo if civilian casualties at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were less than 1% of the civilian casualties of WW II and if the bombing of cities started 5 years earlier including the mass fire-bombing of cities - why would a warning even be necessary? Should the British have dialed up the Germans and told them when and where to expect every air attack so they can evacuate even though it would have increased the air defenses against them and so decreased the probability of success? Pretty dangerous job already. Over 100,000 Allied bomber crewmen were killed over Europe alone.
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Terms could not be different. The allied leaders (-minus Stalin) Agreed on Unconditionally Surrender and only Unconditional Surredner.
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Let me ask you a question. What if Germany had agrreed to surrender if they were allowed to keep Hitler in power?Japan would not surrender unconditionally. They would not give up monarchy. But they would surrender if they could keep the emperor on the throne. Truman ignored this. Bombs felt. And thats it. Rest is emotions.
This is not guessing. Its history. Its facts. Its recorded. Its been to court and panels. Truman and Eisenhower said it themself. Churchill wrote about it in his books. What more can we ask for?
Having an opinion that diplomacy works, at least it should be officially tried, is not laughable IMO.
I bet you would appease them? Wouldn't you Mr. Chamberlain?Care about me?
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yeah, sure. including movies, documentaries etc. like schindlers list for example
and there are lots of documentaries on tv about this topic - including all nasty pics of auschwitz, treblinka or mauthausen.
the bad thing is: you can't force the kids to look and respect what they see while the neo nazis are waiting outside the school with free CDs of nazi music and free beer. which unfortunately happens in some parts of the countryComment
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Splum, you tend to put it black and white. Sure, there are extremists, but just because someone disagree doesn't make people anti-american. Hitler was a bad guy, but I don't hate the German people today. Stalin was bad, but I don't hate Russians today. USA did a good job in Europe, Africa and Pacific, but I think using the atomic bombs was a wrong decision. But I don't hate american because of that, the decision was made by few people.It just amazes me the thread starter and several people in here completely have no idea what happened during World War II. Somehow I suspect there is some anti-American sentiment behind some of the postings and probably the thread starter. Any third grader in most civilized nations knows the conventional history of World War II. I think anti-American sentiment is driving a movement to revise history and make all the United States good deeds look like simple propaganda. After all the good the people and government of the United States has done for most of the world, liberating countries from tyranical rule, given more humanitarian aid than all the countries of the world combined, etc. This country isnt perfect and we make mistakes but we make them with good intentions in mind.
Today most of us live in democracy, and in democracy you have the right to disagree. Its not that simple as "either with - or against". If someone ask me to join beating up a guy, and I say no, that doesn't make me unfriendly.. I just don't want to fight.Last edited by Dirty Dane; 02-25-2007, 11:26 AM.Comment
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It was not a question of military power. It was the throne.
After the surrender he could keep his throne anyway, so why not just put that into the original terms of surrender?Comment
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Simple: If we had started negotiating terms and given them one thing, they would have asked for more and more.
You don't appease ruthless murderers like that who have power.
Here is a quick preview of 9th grade history for you next year. Appeasement started the war.Care about me?
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We are talking about the ending, not the start.Comment
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fuck you.It just amazes me the thread starter and several people in here completely have no idea what happened during World War II. Somehow I suspect there is some anti-American sentiment behind some of the postings and probably the thread starter. Any third grader in most civilized nations knows the conventional history of World War II. I think anti-American sentiment is driving a movement to revise history and make all the United States good deeds look like simple propaganda. After all the good the people and government of the United States has done for most of the world, liberating countries from tyranical rule, given more humanitarian aid than all the countries of the world combined, etc. This country isnt perfect and we make mistakes but we make them with good intentions in mind.
"completely no idea of what happened" is a fucking stretch
It occurred to me there may have been a different way and i brought the topic up for debate. Whats funny, or maybe even not, is how insecure some of you guys are. Ive been lurking on gfy for years and ive learned very much from those that comment with a perspective that ive never seen before. This thread got me to read wikipedia for about an hour about the war, i brought up a way that we could have achieved the same result with less civilian casualties, and some great points were brought up along the way, by rochard adl colin and others, at no point in this discussion was i dead set on my point
but there is no reason to call me an idiot, as it was debated for some time, it is certainly was not a "no-brainer" decision, and it reiterates how close-minded and inflexible some of posters areWebmasterchecks Affiliate Payments - fully compatible with nats/mpa3Comment
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You are talking to the wrong generation about WW2. If you actually are interested in what the real mindset was,talk to someone who lived through or even better,someone who fought in that war.fuck you.
"completely no idea of what happened" is a fucking stretch
It occurred to me there may have been a different way and i brought the topic up for debate. Whats funny, or maybe even not, is how insecure some of you guys are. Ive been lurking on gfy for years and ive learned very much from those that comment with a perspective that ive never seen before. This thread got me to read wikipedia for about an hour about the war, i brought up a way that we could have achieved the same result with less civilian casualties, and some great points were brought up along the way, by rochard adl colin and others, at no point in this discussion was i dead set on my point
but there is no reason to call me an idiot, as it was debated for some time, it is certainly was not a "no-brainer" decision, and it reiterates how close-minded and inflexible some of posters areYou might not be as anonymous as you think you are.Comment
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It is not my fault you are uneducated about the topic you started."completely no idea of what happened" is a fucking stretch.
This thread got me to read wikipedia for about an hour about the war, i brought up a way that we could have achieved the same result with less civilian casualties, and some great points were brought up along the way, by rochard adl colin and others, at no point in this discussion was i dead set on my pointComment
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I think you should not use wikipedia as source. Everyone can go in and edit and just say "its on wikipedia, so it must be true".This thread got me to read wikipedia for about an hour about the war, i brought up a way that we could have achieved the same result with less civilian casualties, and some great points were brought up along the way, by rochard adl colin and others, at no point in this discussion was i dead set on my pointComment
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This was my senior thesis in college...this argument is in a state of perpetual circular logic here
If you can take anything from what happened...be constructive
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Well...the argument in this thread is whether it should have been used on a metropolis or if another location could have been an effective demonstration. That's the initial post.
And yes, they were warned. Several times."..and which one of you had the prime rib?" - Waiter
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Correct.
...and we hit industrial.Originally posted by pornopeteJapan struck military targets.
Exactly.
Based on the fanaticism the US was coming across in the populations as they retook the island, the US would have had to fight military, and civilans. There were plenty of Japanese killing themselves as the Americans had gotten closer. The bomb saved 100,000's of American and Japanese lives.Comment
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Actually that is not true. My mother has a good friend from Germany that is in her fifties. She said they talked about WW II in school and made them feel ashamed about it. They do talk about it still in schools.Comment
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250 leaflets
The cities bombed were secondary targets.
They were chosen because of the weather conditions on those days.
Do the research.Comment
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What is the point of your reply? I said the first bombing was not warned with leaflets
The cities bombed were secondary targets.The warning leaflets you talk about, were dropped after the first bomb. They told people to leave the cities, but not which city bombed next.
They were chosen because of the weather conditions on those days.
Do the research.
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No, read the posts, you misunderstand what Im trying to say.
Some people say they were warned, but I say they were not. Its not about the targets, but if there were leaflets before the first bomb.
Anyway, before the second bomb, they warned people to evacuate every city in Japan and not the specific cities. 2 days to evacuate each city in the hole country was kinda short time.Comment
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Question: when was anyone warned prior to any other bombing raid in the entire 5+ years of WWII? Was the warning of the target a common practice? If it was it's news to me. "Hey Germany, we're coming with 350 B-29's to level one of your cities this Tuesday night, just giving you fair warning"
Why not get off the cock about warnings and focus on the more relevant fact that they (Japan) were given ample opportunities to surrender prior to the nukings.
Why do you people insist on blathering on and on and ON with this when everything, every miniscule point, has already been posted about and yapped about on this thread? Really, what else is there to say?
You could take this to 20 pages and guess what? You still won't have everyone agreeing with you, and the nukes back in 1945 will still have been dropped.
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Warning about where they came would be strategic unwise - but human.Question: when was anyone warned prior to any other bombing raid in the entire 5+ years of WWII? Was the warning of the target a common practice? If it was it's news to me. "Hey Germany, we're coming with 350 B-29's to level one of your cities this Tuesday night, just giving you fair warning"Comment
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Maybe before posting you should check your history !Originally posted by pornopetewhat a conveniant excuse.
rephrase your question old man.
how many soldiers would have died?
There is a difference in somebody dieing fighting for what they believe in and a child dieing on the way to school.
If you had you would know
a) The US warned Japan about the bomb before they dropped it !
B)The US dropped a bomb and Japan still didn't surrender
C)If you look at what happened when the allies invaded the Japanese home islands the japanese faught to the very last man woman and child including suicide bombers.
D)The Germans had sent a U-boat filled with all sorts of booty including nuclear scientists and material,Plans for V1 ,V2 and other revenge weapons !
E)The US killed more people in firebombing raids over Japan than the A bombs did so this is a pretty pointless thread !
and relax !
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