From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:39:52 -0400, Adam  wrote:

> 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

"Would you feel better if they was pushed outta winders, little girl?"

--
Gary Wiltshire

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