From: Adam 

Gary Wiltshire wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 06:07:20 -0400, Adam 
> wrote:
>
>> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>>> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:35:43 -0500, Rich Gauszka
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
>>>> news:op.s68lebimeipai0{at}dsl40.bgtnvtpl.sover.net...
>>>>> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:52:02 -0500, John Cuccia

>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, that was why I posted the Hirshima picture.  
The "laws and
>>>>>> customs or war" are peacetime constructs
which have no influence on
>>>>>> wartime conduct.
>>>>>>
>>>>> And again, you'd have prefered the million or more American and
>>>>> Japanese
>>>>> casualities a full blown invasion would have cost.
>>>>> -- Gary Wiltshire
>>>>
>>>> I'm not arguing against the Hiroshima bombing but I do doubt that we
>>>> would
>>>> have had to go into Operation 'Downfall' and invade even had we not
>>>> used the
>>>> atomic bomb.  We did own the air over Japan with the B29s  and the
>>>> firebombing raids had done far, far more damage to the morale of the
>>>> population ( i.e. 20 square miles of downtown Tokyo a sea of napalm
>>>> flame -
>>>> either burn or be asphyxiated).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>  So firebombing, which killed more and destroyed more would be
>>> morally preferable?
>>>  --Gary Wiltshire
>>
>> There is no doubt that Hamburg & Tokyo would have been war crimes had
>> we not won.
>>
>> Adam
>
> And again, note the paragraph a few above mine regarding the firebombing
> raids.  People have strange obsessions about exact HOW people die,
> whether we're talking guns or atom bombs.  When you're dead, you're dead.
>
> --Gary Wiltshire

As the SS used to say while they herded people into the showers.

Adam

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