From: Greg Hennessy
Date: 12/24/2003 4:04 AM Central Standard Time
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On 23 Dec 2003 11:30:54 -0800, wrote:

(B2431) wrote in message
...

I ask again, how would YOU have taken out the legitimate targets in
Nagasaki
and Hiroshima using only weapons available in WW2?

The same way that all previous legitimate targets were taken out
during WWII.

While I'll admit that the firebombing of German metros led to civilian
casualties approaching the same number of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, there is
no comparison between the destruction of architecture as women and
children huddle underground

I suggest you expand your limited grasp of the actualite. Try well in
excess of 100000 dead on the night of march 9th/10th 1945.

32 square miles destroyed and 250000 dead in raids over the space of 8
days.


- and the bright shining incineration of
all life within miles, poisoning the land for a generation.

Which is emotive lying bilge. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both rebuilt in
less than a decade.



With humblest respect for your past service to our country, I must
admit that the question you pose illustrates the main problem behind
why the Bomb was used: Because no one knew a "better" way. This
represents a militarily trained, "any-means-necessary" bias.

No, this represents "You havent a f*cking clue what you are talking about"
attempt at a cop out.




greg
--
Once you try my burger baby,you'll grow a new thyroid gland.
I said just eat my burger, baby,make you smart as Charlie Chan.
You say the hot sauce can't be beat. Sit back and open wide.

Careful with the attributions, Greg, nothing you attribute to me here was said
by me.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired