we say terrorists kill innocent people...

Frank Apisa wrote:

What the **** are you talking about???

Do you really think dropping a ****' atom bomb in the middle of a city filled with men, women, children, and babies....WAS NOT INTENTIONAL???

The intent of dropping the A-bombs was not to kill civilians.

oralloy wrote:

Frank Apisa wrote:

What the **** are you talking about???

Do you really think dropping a ****' atom bomb in the middle of a city filled with men, women, children, and babies....WAS NOT INTENTIONAL???

The intent of dropping the A-bombs was not to kill civilians.

What was the purpose of the atomic bomb then?

I'll even buy pizza for the movers.

Overall, the purpose was to shock the Japanese government with the huge power of the bomb and thus scare them into surrendering.

Directly, the purpose of the Hiroshima bomb was to destroy Japan's largest military town, and the purpose of the Nagasaki bomb was to destroy large arms-production complexes on the outskirts of Nagasaki.

oralloy wrote:

Overall, the purpose was to shock the Japanese government with the huge power of the bomb and thus scare them into surrendering.

Directly, the purpose of the Hiroshima bomb was to destroy Japan's largest military town, and the purpose of the Nagasaki bomb was to destroy large arms-production complexes on the outskirts of Nagasaki.

So the mass killing of inocence is to make a point. So next time someone disagrees with us we will nuke a small city out of existence?

the purpose of the Nagasaki bomb was to destroy large arms-production complexes on the outskirts of Nagasaki.

Overall, the purpose was to shock the Japanese government with the huge power of the bomb and thus scare them into surrendering.

Directly, the purpose of the Hiroshima bomb was to destroy Japan's largest military town, and the purpose of the Nagasaki bomb was to destroy large arms-production complexes on the outskirts of Nagasaki.

oralloy wrote:

Overall, the purpose was to shock the Japanese government with the huge power of the bomb and thus scare them into surrendering.

And how would "they" scare the Japanese government into surrender?

oralloy wrote:

Directly, the purpose of the Hiroshima bomb was to destroy Japan's largest military town, and the purpose of the Nagasaki bomb was to destroy large arms-production complexes on the outskirts of Nagasaki.

The purpose of the atomic bombs was to DESTROY not only innocent Japanese civilians, but Japanese military structures, Japanese civilian buildings, and anything related to the Japanese…if you don't believe me, I will try to explain it to you slowly.

Jason Proudmoore wrote:

oralloy wrote:

Overall, the purpose was to shock the Japanese government with the huge power of the bomb and thus scare them into surrendering.

And how would "they" scare the Japanese government into surrender?

By being incredibly powerful bombs.

If the purpose was to destroy "anything related to the Japanese" it sure was negligent of the planners to try to target the bombs on concentrations of soldiers and on arms-production complexes.

One wonders just how incredibly stupid conservative apologist can get?

You seem to not know the concept of war, my mentally ill friend.

I suspect you clowns wouldn't feel the need to engage in childish insults if you were actually smart enough to come up with a coherent argument.

If you come here to this thread and post a baseless argument that only amounts to nonsense,

But I would suggest that the Islamic militants are equally able to formulate arguments of why the destruction the World Trade Center was not only justified but, in the final analysis, a humane act.

Oralloy's contention that we didn't drop a nuke on Japan with the clear intention of killing civilians took me aback so much that I was momentarily speechless and unable to rrespond. Thank you,xingu, for pinch-hitting. This oralloy person is walking about unassisted? He shouldn't be allowed to cross the street unaided. That one statement is the single most egeregious denial of reality I have ever read. It hadn't occurred to me that any allegedly sane person, no matter what one's political persuasion, could even be capable of entratining such a notion.

We intended to wipe out a large number of Japanese non-combatant civilians. Period.

War is a nasty business. People do nasty things to win a war. That's a given. It is only after hostilities have ceased that the victors -- and sometimes the losers, too -- come up with reasonable excuses of why particular actions were necessary. We have been told thousands of times how the bombing of the Japanese cities was necessary to end the war more quickly and, in the final analysis, save lives. For all I know, this might be a valid argument. But I would suggest that the Islamic militants are equally able to formulate arguments of why the destruction the World Trade Center was not only justified but, in the final analysis, a humane act.

I posted only facts.

Clearly you don't like facts.

But since you can't refute reality, you resort to childish insults.

Now run along and be stupid somewhere else.

Merry Andrew wrote:

But I would suggest that the Islamic militants are equally able to formulate arguments of why the destruction the World Trade Center was not only justified but, in the final analysis, a humane act.

For example?

This bears repeating, since it got buried by the childish insults:

[quote="oralloy"]the purpose of the Nagasaki bomb was to destroy large arms-production complexes on the outskirts of Nagasaki.