Do you actually believe that propaganda BS that the bomb you dropped on Hiroshima ""Saved lives"" =S
Thank you for answering! =D
2006-10-29 20:12:27 · 18 answers · asked by one 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
privet alvis, they believe anything cos they are brain washed puppets, you forgot to mention nagasaki too, ohh and they used napalm and phospherous bombs on vietnamese children and civillians plus the agent orange.they believe anything when they think about money,they even think global warming which is the biggest threat to our planet don't exist.they are the worlds number one polluter.
2006-10-29 20:59:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The easiest thing in the world is to have 20/20 hindsight. Truman made a decision based on the possibility of having to invade Japan. The resistence of Okinawa erased any doubt as to what an invasion might entail. Thousands of Japanese civilians, and I mean thousands, killed themselves because the Japanese government told them they would be tortured, raped and murdered by the US.
I, too, wish some other means to show the effects of the bomb could have been used. Drop it in Tokyo Bay or somewhere just to show the power. But the war had been going on for 4 years, millions of lives had been lost and, more than anything, the US wanted to end that war. That's why it was done, to end the war.
Your quasi-sophisticated, smug question suggests other reasons. Perhaps there were. Keeping the Soviet Union's paws off Japan could be part of it. Establishing the USA as the only great power with the Bomb could also be it. But it saved lives, and any BS is from folks who claim otherwise.
2006-10-29 20:52:15 · answer #2 · answered by iwasnotanazipolka 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Thank you dr schmitty for the laugh. That one is still funny, even after all this time. BTW, did anyone else read The Onion when they wrote the story about the formation of a new country, Ethniclashistan, a few years ago?
Besides, after the bombs were dropped, Japan dipped out of WWII and the US was MORE than happy to start working with them on a peace treaty. It was like a giant f'ed up wake up call. It was ugly, but SOMETHING needed to happen to end the fighting. It would have been nice if it could have ended without the 2 bombs, but it just wasn't going to happen.
However, don't blame ME for the bombs. I sure as hell don't blame the younger generation of Japanese for using Allied (including American) POWs as slave labor...I only blame those Japanese that were actually involved with that. I don't even agree with those who would ask for 'reparations'.
It was war. It's now done and over with; both sides learned their lessons. Let it be. Honor the dead, but leave the propaganda out.
2006-10-29 20:57:16 · answer #3 · answered by MigukInUJB 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Point 1) Yes it saved lives by ending the war
Point 2) I didn't drop a bomb---I wasn't even a twinkle in Daddy's eye at that time
Point 3) You need to learn to ask a question without stereotyping
Point 4) There is a little thing called "check spelling"----USE IT.
2006-10-29 23:14:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yup, I most certainly DO believe that.
Several times, the Japanese pretended to surrender, and then fought back twice as hard. It took dropping bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima to make them REALLY surrender. They suddenly realized we weren't playing around.
Once Japan and Italy had surrendered, so did Germany.
But the cost of that war was catastrophic. We lost nearly one million soldiers, and every other country involved also had a huge loss of life, both military and civilian.
Those bombs ended the war. Period.
2006-10-29 22:57:30 · answer #5 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You said the bomb 'you' dropped. I didnt drop $hit. That happened before I was born and I am not responsible. I get so tired of stereotyping and getting blamed for $hit that I had nothing to do with. Just because I am American doesnt mean I believe in killing, war, dropping bombs or whatever!!!
2006-10-29 20:16:22 · answer #6 · answered by tmills883 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Um yeah. Why is it, in the phillipines during WW2, Japanese soldiers would kill the women and children instead of letting them be caught by americans?
Wouldn't the entire state of Japan do the same, if there were a land invasion?
2006-10-29 23:02:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
first off, it was two bombs. secondly, yes, it did save lives. lives of soldiers on both sides that would have died in a ground war, as well as the myriad atrocities that befall civilians during long term occupations. similar savings in human lives might be better achieved it the world would just get together an event (televised) where religious fanatics can pick teams and just blow the sh!t out of each other under controlled circumstances, leaving us normal folk (military and civilian) out of it.
2006-10-29 20:18:00 · answer #8 · answered by dr schmitty 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
It saved American lives and that to me is important. Although I kind of wish we dropped a few on Germany first....three or four would have been nice:),
2006-10-29 21:03:06 · answer #9 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It did save lives. Saved tons of lives that would've been lost had the war not ended then, but continued for years.
What's with spelling America as "AmeriKa"?
2006-10-29 20:28:07 · answer #10 · answered by The Riddler 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋