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Subject: Re: "Unjust" Bombing of Hiroshima

Author:
bob

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Date Posted: 10:00:17 03/28/03 Fri
In reply to: Hunter Hutchinsonq 's message, "Re: "Unjust" Bombing of Hiroshima" on 12:15:17 01/01/03 Wed

>All wars have their attrocoties. The Rape of Nanking
>by Japanese soldiers stands out as a perticularly
>sordid chapter in human barbarity. Hitler's death
>camps are another.
>Yet no
>Everyone considers the bombing of Hiroshima unjust.
>Yet, few people, except the Germans, seem to consider
>the firebombing of Dresdan to be unjustified. ALthough
>it did not take one bomb, as many Germans died at
>Dresden from the
>Allied firebombing, as died at Hiroshima.
>
>Sure, it took 48 hours of round the clock boming for
>the Allies to kill as many people is Dresden as were
>killed at Hiroshima. Yet, it seems, no one cares that
>as many as 135,000 Germans died. Perhaps the German
>lives lost at Dresden are worth less than the Japanese
>lives lost at Hiroshima.
>
>Can one even begin to imagine the terror of the
>Dresden bombing? At least the vitcims of Hiroshima
>didn't suffer terror. They didn't feel themselves burn
>alive. They were incinerated in an instant.

Can you tell me about the war

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