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From: robertv@tekla.UUCP (Robert Vetter)
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Subject: Re: The Presidents   how I feel they rate in history
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Date: Tue, 20-May-86 18:50:22 EDT
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In article <2784@pixar.pixar> good@pixar.UUCP (If your dog goes off in another room is it because of explosives?) writes:
>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.
>-- 
>		--Craig
>		...{ucbvax,sun}!pixar!good

My understanding was that he wanted to defeat Japan before the Russians got
into the fray.  This was to avoid another German-like split or even Russian
control.  In any case, the decision probably DID save lives, including
Russian ones.


Rob Vetter
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"Waste is a terrible thing to mind" - NRC
  (Well, they COULD have said it)