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From: arlan@inuxm.UUCP (A Andrews)
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Subject: Re: Lives saved by nuking Japan?!? (was Re: The Presidents...)
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Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 18:08:03 EDT
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> In article <2928@jhunix.UUCP>, ins_apmj@jhunix.UUCP (Patrick M Juola) writes:
> > 	The defense of the Japanese islands was/would have been the
> > defense equivalent of a jihad, a holy war. 
> 
> Why was it so imperative to conquer the Japanese islands?

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It might be of some interest in this continuing session, to point out that
the Japanese were working on their own nuclear weapons during WWII, and that
unlike the Germans,  could have produced a working device.  This information,
of course, comes from the right-wing extremist newspaper, the New York Times,
and will be immediately suspect by Severner and the rest...

In response to Raif's incredible question:

"Are you joking, or what?"

--arlan