Here's Truman AND Eisenhower both quoted as saying we didn't need to drop them because Japan was already going to surrender.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/...ambitions.html
Originally Posted by UnderConstruction
I read the entire article, undercunt. I could find no such quote by Harry ("the buck stops here") Truman, who made the actual decision to drop the bombs. Would you please find the direct quote and point it out for everyone?
Btw, is this quote an example of the "binary thinking" that you keep bitching about?
"Japan surrendered because the Soviet Union began an invasion a few days after the Hiroshima bombing, not because of the atomic bombs themselves, he (Kuznick) says."
It appears your simple-minded historian from American University (Peter Kuznick) believes it has to be 100% one or the other.
There's nothing in your article about President Truman or General Marshall believing the bomb was unnecessary, you "#Grubered" Odumbo Minion. "Dugout" Doug's post-war relationship with Truman is well documented, you "#Grubered" Odumbo Minion; hence, his remarks regarding Truman should be taken with a grain of salt. Further, you "#Grubered" Odumbo Minion, it should be remembered that "Dugout" Doug was the one who wanted to use nuclear weapons against the North Koreans and create a nuclear "no man's land" in CHINA! It also should be remembered how General Curtis LeMay was one those air power advocates seeking to advance his agenda for making the Air Force a separate military branch -- and that he preached that air power alone could have won WWII without the Army, Navy and Marines and that the Normandy invasion was "unnecessary", you "#Grubered" Odumbo Minion.
Originally Posted by I B Hankering
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If you listened to historical illiterates like undercunt and sham-scam, you would think Gen. Douglas McArthur and Gen. Curtis LeMay were anti-nuke peace activists!
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