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Quote by: HelioPrime War was going to happen. Japan attacked us, and we responded. People saw firsthand how fanatical the japanese could be and the only way to end the way was an invasion.

They attacked Pearl Harbor.... last I checked that was a military target... two cities are not. And you guys get two buildings smacked around by some planes, loose a couple thousand as well, in one city, and you guys seem to forget how you guys justified something twice as worse.

Perspective I suppose. *shrugs*

We were alreay killing enough people in Germany and Japan by normal bombing. This really isn't that different.

How about level of suffering due to radiation? Bombing them with bombs would have been more humaine imo.

Possibly the first example of mass terrorism.... do what we say or we kill and mutate your people in a way you can't do anything about.

Sure.... they were crazy fighters... but at least they knew how to fight with a little honor. Oh and attacking Pearl Harbor during the period of a World War I don't believe constitutes as a suprise attack in the sense I believe most try to potray it as..... which was cheap..... but if they look at the methods, it was more of a dumb Idea then anything.

In an invastion many americans would die as well as many japanese. The bomb could have saved lives. More could have been lost in a normal invasion to secure and pacify the country.

That has always been the justification... but to me, it would have been more logical and more decent if the targets were large military targets.... Not Civilians trying to live a normal life in an already horrible time.

In my opinion the two bombs were one of the top cowardly and horrific acts of the war. Sure everybody is hunky dory that the war ended... but the method expressed the same lack of compassion for humanity as the Nazis and their concentration camps.

If he can sleep well at night knowing he killed 140,000 odd Japanese civilians, who are we to argue?