From: "weary"


"B2431" wrote in message
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From: "weary"


Besides, I have never asked nor do I
want my government to kill civilians so that I can sleep safe
at night. As a matter of fact, if I knew that is what my government
was doing, I would not sleep safe at night.


Tell ya what, get the bad guys to move their military targets away from
civilian populations and the civilians will stop dying. That is true for
all
countries and organizations including the U.S. and Al Quaida.

Your insistance that civilians were deliberatly targeted in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki would only hold water if the military targets were no where near
civilian population centers.

In Hiroshima the aiming point was in a largely residential area and
the targetting selection required that the military target be in a large
urban
area.


I ask again, how would YOU have taken out the military targets in Nagasaki
and
Hiroshima without harming civilians.

Conventional bombing and I haven't claimed that no civilians would be harmed
so don't you try that strawman as well.


OK, so your contention civilians were the intended targets of the atomic
bombings doesn't hold water. The fact remains there were military targets there
and civilians would die in very large numbers in any case. That doesn't make
the atomic bombings a war crime. Only one thing is clear had the war continued
both Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have been bombed, either atomic or
conventional, again to take out the reast of the targets and those that had
been rebuilt.


As a Jew I take offense at your comparing Dachau to Hiroshima.

When did I do that?

Many thousands
of humans died there, not just Jews, but I have been there and have seen
the
grave markers.

Many thousands of Japanese civilians died in Hiroshima.


Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

The difference is the Nazis set out to murder civilians. They murdered about 6
million Jews and about 6 million non Jews in concentration camps, death camps
and execution pits. The was no military benefit to such mass slaughter.

No matter how Japan would be forced to quit hundreds ofthousands of civilians
would have died. I don't understand why that is beyond your comprehension.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired