[Vision2020] Tony Simpsom Shills for Terrorists Yet Again!

[Matt Decker]

Andreas,

Inarguable? Why did our generals predict Millions of casualties then, if the 
Japanese would surrender, like they did so much during that war. I mean Iwo 
4-10 people out of 30,000 surrendered. Maybe and just maybe they might have, 
but a full blown invasion was in the works. I believe without the bomb it 
would have gone threw, thus resulting in thousands upon thousands of 
American and Japanese maimed wounded and dead.

I hope it never happens again, but did it save lives? YES!

Matt


>From: "Andreas Schou" <ophite at gmail.com>
>To: "Matt Decker" <mattd2107 at hotmail.com>
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Tony Simpsom Shills for Terrorists Yet Again!
>Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:21:32 -0800
>
> > Think what you want but Ill agree with history and our generals who won 
>that
> > war.
>
>Like Eisenhower, who wrote, in his memoir, "In 1945 Secretary of War
>Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our
>government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of
>those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question
>the wisdom of such an act. During his recitation of the relevant
>facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced
>to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan
>was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely
>unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should
>avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment
>was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American
>lives."
>
>Or Curtis LeMay, who argued that the bomb "had nothing to do with the
>end of the war?"
>
>Or Chester Nimitz, who, in October of 1945, argued that the Japanese
>had already been soundly beaten before the bombs were dropped?
>
>Or Douglas MacArthur, who said, after the war, that there was "[...]
>no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might
>have ended weeks earlier [...] if the United States had agreed, as it
>later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor."
>
>As far as the decision to drop the bomb goes, it was entirely
>uninformed by the military. The supreme commander was against it, the
>head of the Army Air Force was against it, the admiral of the Pacific
>Fleet was against it, and the Joint Chiefs were not consulted. While
>it's inarguable that dropping the atomic bomb sped along the Japanese
>surrender, it's also inarguable that they would have surrendered
>anyway, and without the deaths of Japanese civilians, American POWs,
>and Korean slave laborers.
>
>-- ACS
>
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