[Vision2020] Tony Simpsom Shills for Terrorists Yet Again!

[Matt Decker]

Paul,

What would have happened had we not dropped the bombs?  Whose lives
>would have been lost because of it?

Ours!

Matt


>From: Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Tony Simpsom Shills for Terrorists Yet Again!
>Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:05:28 -0800
>
>Matt Decker wrote:
>
> >Sure the same reason you can explain they would have surrendered. I would
> >love to carry this conversation on. If you can't realize what we "did" 
>saved
> >lives, then I won't though.
> >
> >Matt
> >
> >
> >
>
>Perhaps it saved many lives, I'm not a historian of WWII, but it also
>took them too.  Hundreds of thousands of them.  Men, women, and
>children.  Most of whom were non-combatant civilians.  According to
>Wikipedia, 140,000 at Hiroshima and approximately the same number at
>Nagasaki.
>
>Hiroshima was targeted based on three criteria: 1) an important target
>in an urban area of more than three miles in diameter, 2) capable of
>being damaged effectively by a blast, and 3) that it was unlikely to be
>attacked before they could drop the bomb on it.
>
>There were five targets to choose from: Kyoto, Hiroshima, Yokohama,
>Kokura Arsenal, and Niigata.  They wanted the greatest military effect
>with the greatest psychological impact.  Kyoto and Hiroshima were
>classified as AA targets, the rest A or B.  They even considered
>dropping it on the Emperor's palace.
>
>If they wanted to minimize civilian casualties, then dropping it in an
>"urban area" would not have been their first criteria.
>
>You can read the memo from the Target Committee at:
>http://www.dannen.com/decision/targets.html
>
>Was it worth the cost?  And to  whom?
>
>What would have happened had we not dropped the bombs?  Whose lives
>would have been lost because of it?
>
>Paul
>
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