More palatable and probable story is that On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Michael Madigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's immoral about saving lives? An invasion of > Japan along with conventional bombs and ground troops > would have killed many more people than those who died > in the nuclear blasts. You are probably right given the long history of US military's remarkable achievements in killing civilians. Yet, Stalin declared war against Japan on Aug 8, two days after the Hiroshima bombing with no knowledge of it. Franklin Roosevelt once annoyed Winston Churchill when he exposed his guilty feeling to Stalin during the Allied leaders' meeting because he associated 20 millions of people in Soviet Union killed during the World War II with his country's too late involvement into the war. Stalin's war declaration was by Roosevelt's request at the Yalta conference occurred on Feb. 1945. Therefore, President Truman knew when Soviet would invade Manchuria. Truman did not want to see Soviet Union's military reaching Japan. Worried about the fast advancement of Soviet Army through Manchuria to Korea and eventually Japan, two U.S. army colonels looked at the map of Korean Peninsula for about 30 minutes and came up with an idea suggesting the division of Korean Peninsular at the 38 parallel line and each part to be governed by US and Soviet military. Soviet Union accepted that proposal. The division line changed a bit during the Korean war but, remains that way till now. Now if it saved one solitary American life, then it > was well worth it, but it also saved hundreds of > thousands of Japanese lives also. > Well, Truman established ABCC(Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission) in the Spring of 1948 to conduct investigations of the late effects of radiation among the survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ABCC found some disturbing facts; Among the casualties were unintended victims such as : - Allied POWs - Korean and Chinese labourers. - Students from Malaya on scholarships. - Some 3,200 Japanese American citizens. It is estimated that one in seven of the Hiroshima victims(about 20,000) was of Korean ancestry. To me even without such unintended victims, it is simply a crime against humanity. Target-bombing civilians and non-military facilities to inflict severe damage to the enemy psychic was first adopted by Winston Churchill. Such a creative thinking was a big surprise even to the generals of NAZI Germany. Dresden bombing is one of the well-known examples. Such approach has been passed to US military and became a tradition trademarked by carpet-bombing of US Air Forces. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
