Originally posted by: Obi Jeewhyen
Go ahead and rationalize that all you please. The depravity of rationalizing a nuclear attack on civilians is disgusting ... but if it will make any of you feel better, go right ahead. And sleep well.
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How would you have defeated the Japanese? Over 100,000 American soldiers were killed just taking the islands surrounding Japan in preparation for an invasion. Many hundreds of thousands of American soldiers would have been killed taking the mainland. Would that have been your choice over the bomb? Please don't dance around the question, it is a simple choice.

Our freedom in America can be credited to our successes militarily, and we have never won a war in which we refused to target "innocent" civilians.