[Vision2020] Bishop: Bombing Hiroshima, Nagasaki Same As Terrorism

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

Donovan et. al.

Thanks for your comments on my post on the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and 
Nagasaki in WWII.

I was quoting a Catholic Bishop from Spokane, Wa. on the terrorism comparison 
involved, so perhaps you can address your objections to this comparison to 
the argument the Bishop made, which was available from web links I posted.  

The question I posed regarding terrorism and the nuclear bombings of Japan 
focused on the war in Iraq, a war resulting from an invasion by one nation of 
another nation, not terror attacks of all kinds everywhere.

You made numerous points, but express such a limited understanding of all the 
issues involved in the nuclear bombings of Japan, I recommend you first read 
all of the content at available at these two web sites.  The answers.com site 
does present a detailed pro and con section regarding the necessity of the 
nuclear strikes against Japan in WWII.

http://www.answers.com/topic/atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki

http://www.doug-long.com

When you start your post claiming that 50,000 Japanese were killed in the 
nuclear bombings, when 200,000 is a reasonable estimate, you lost some 
credibility right away.

At least read this letter, complete with references, with a long list of 
signatories mostly from academia.

http://www.doug-long.com/letter.htm

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Vision2020 Post by Ted Moffett
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