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From: good@pixar (If your dog goes off in another room is it because of explosives?)
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Subject: Re: The Presidents   how I feel they rate in history
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Date: Sun, 18-May-86 16:05:33 EDT
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In article <709@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> michael@ucbiris.UUCP (Tom Slone [(415)486-5954]) writes:

>>>Harry S Truman
>1 - Low intelligence, war criminal, mass murderer.  He ordered the unnecessary
>atomic bombing of 2 Japanese cities, just as the Japanese were about to
>surrender.

Yeah, right.  They were about to surrender, all right.  That's why it took two
bombs.  They thought we had used up the world supply of weapons-grade Uranium
with the first bomb, so they decided not to surrender.  They didn't count on
Plutonium.

Truman saved millions of lives, both American and Japanese, by dropping those
bombs.

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		--Craig
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