Hiroshima, Nagasaki, And The Great Historic Lie

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, And The Great Historic Lie - zengardner.com

Excerpt from this article:

"It is perceived wisdom throughout the Western world – particularly America – that the dropping of two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was “necessary” to end the war with Japan...Truman knew weeks before the Potsdam Conference, which began in July, 1945, that the Japanese were making overtures to surrender, the only condition being the retention of the Emperor. But Truman was determined to test the new bombs. In the words of General Douglas McArthur: ”The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.”...In reality, most of the military top brass were disgusted at the decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki and understood completely that it served no military purpose whatsoever."
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Japan Marks 68th Anniversary Of  U.S. Atomic Bombing

World War II: The 'Good War?'

World War II: The 'Good War? 18 Reasons the Answer is No - lewrockwell.com

Excerpt from this article:

"I have commented previously that I believe (at least given my current understanding) the main purpose for U.S. entry into the war was two-fold: 1) to take the place of an increasingly ailing Britain as the primary tool for the elite to expand global control, and 2) to ensure a new, long term enemy can be made out of the Soviet Union and communism. I will add a third to this list – actually it is a subset of the first: to bring the productive populations of Germany and Japan under the control of the elite."
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Japan Mark 68th Anniversary of U.S. Atomic Bombing

Japan Marks 68th Anniversary of U.S. Atomic Bombing

PressTV - Japan marks 68th anniversary of US atomic bombing:

"Japan is to mark the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the US, the first-ever case of the use of the bomb against human beings, which resulted in the death of thousands of people."

My father turned 18 and went in the army in 1945. I think he was only in the army 6 months before President Truman ordered the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, which ended World War 2. If president Truman had not done that, the war - at least in the Pacific - would have likely gone on for awhile and my father may have been one of the many men who lost their lives in that war.

So I guess I'm happy about America's decision to drop the bomb on Japan in 1945. Or at least I understand that had America not dropped the bomb, I might never have been born. I feel a little like Chelsea Clinton must have felt when she "lamented that her Grandmother was the child of unwed teenage parents who did not have access to Planned Parenthood." On the one hand, I'm grateful for America's decision to drop the bomb on Japan back then, because it may have saved my father's life (and therefore mine, since I was born many years later!)

But on the other hand, I also recognize that America's dropping 2 atomic bombs on two Japanese cities - cities filled with innocent (non-military) men, women and children - is probably one of the biggest terrorist acts in all of history. The only other terrorist act that comes close is the 1973 decision by the Supreme Court to open the door for the murder of 55 million babies (see Report: 54,559,615 Abortions Since Roe v. Wade in 1973)

And our President has the nerve to say, "God Bless Planned Parenthood!" Why not just say, "God bless the Atom bomb?

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Recommended sermon:

When Government Tries to be God, by Dr. David P. Murray