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From: jnp@calmasd.CALMA.UUCP (John Pantone)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc,net.rumor
Subject: Re: Lives saved by nuking Japan?!? (was Re: The Presidents...)
Message-ID: <1931@calmasd.CALMA.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jun-86 13:35:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  9 13:35:19 1986
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Summary: wether the pitcher hits the stone...

In article <764@sigma.UUCP>, roman@sigma.UUCP (Bill Roman) writes:
....omissions.....
> Yes, Japan in WWII was a cruel foe - don't forget Bataan....
> The point I was trying to make was that the nuclear bombings of
> Japan killed civilians, not military personnel engaged in fighting

What planet are these people from ??? The point was to kill people!
Their people, not ours. (Remember Patton: The point of war is not to
die for your country, but to make the other poor b****rd die for his
country).

Flame extinguisher: Of course it was immoral - war is, among other
things, immoral, illogical ...

Stop trying to assign such a logical approach to a manifestly illogical
thing like war.


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