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From: mwm@ea.UUCP
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Subject: Re: The atomic bomb
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Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 17:25:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 19 17:25:00 1984
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By popular demand, the following has flame-like overtones.

/***** ea:net.flame / digi-g!amir /  5:58 am  Oct  6, 1984 */
> You are comparing a conventional war with a mass murder by a bomb.  I really
> feel sorry for your kind.

Amir, you ignorant slut, "conventional war" *is* mass murder (oops, it's
been sanctioned by the state, so we have to call it "killing").

> You are trying to tell me that killing 450,000 people in a shot is ok.  There
> is no way that that many people would have died in a conventional war.

I don't believe it - he quoted me saying that bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki
wasn't a good thing (see below) and can still make that statement. Amir,
I can believe that you don't read the articles you reply to, but you could
at least read the articles you write!

As for the number of people who would have died, you're displaying your
ignorance again. That number would have died if the US hadn't refrained
from bombing Hiroshima & Nagasaki (and others) so they could be used as
testing grounds for the bombs.

-------------------- promised quote --------------------
> <Like I said, it's a good thing we nuked Japan. Not because the nuking was
> <in and of itself good, but because it was so much better than the
> <alternative (and Operation Olympic - or something similar - was the only
> <viable alternative).
-------------------- end quote --------------------

> Ok Ronnie.  You did always believe that you could win a nuclear war.

We won one - you said so yourself, nitwit. Unlike you, I do try and
keep track of things other than "facts" to support my opinions, I know
that we probably couldn't survive an full-scale nuclear exchange. I prefer
not to find out - but I'll make an exception for you.

	<mike