During World War II, there was a plan to use poison gas on the Japanese soldiers waiting at Iwo Jima. The US would leak information that it possesed a "death ray" to explain how all the soldiers had died.
President Roosevelt vetoed the idea.
The US and Japan were the only two countries that had not banned the use of poison gas.
20,000 Americans died taking the island.
The Japanese were not expected to win, only to make it horribly expensive (in lives) for the US to win the island. The soldiers had been ordered to kill ten Americans before they died.
Using the above facts and your own experiences, please consider this.
Should the US have used poison gas at Iwo Jima?
2006-09-14
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