From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

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

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