This discussion has started to go into wrong direction IMO.
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Originally Posted by samurai007
Millions of people died, and millions more would have died if the war had gone on and we'd had to invade the Japanese islands. You seem to want to overlook all of that, and simply attack America. We ended the war after being attacked and brought into it, and we did so as quickly as possible. If we were as bloodthirsty as you claim, why didn't we just slaughter the Japanese after they surrendered? Why did we instead help them to rebuild, achieve a peaceful and independent democracy, and assist them in becoming the world power they are today?
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Just read this:
The Hiroshima Myth by John V. Denson
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Originally Posted by samurai007
It was a terrible choice, to lose a couple hundred thousand civilians, or millions of civilians and soldiers. Japan could have surrendered sooner, after Okinawa, heck, even after Hiroshima and the Russians declaring war. They chose not to. At what point will you lay any blame on them for their atrocities in WW2, and for their unwillingness to surrender even when defeat was inevitable? Oh, that's right, you've never even heard of the Rape of Nanjing, the Bataan Death March, Unit 731, the "Comfort Women", or anything else besides the things America did, have you? That shows that you've either had an incredibly lopsided (and poor) education, almost to the point of indoctrination, or you simply don't care to learn about such things as it might dull the white-hot focus of your America-hatred.
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It's not that I say americans were the evil ones, japanese did just as bad things. What I can't stand is the fact that japanese crimes are called crimes against humanity and many heard about them but american ones aren't, they are instead called lesser evil or necesary evil. You have to understand that those few hundred thousands japanese cilvilians didn't have to die to end the war. That was a lie made up by US politics.