On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:32:04 GMT, "weary" wrote:


That would be Stimson who claimed that Nagasaki was picked as the primary
target for Fatman, when it clearly wasnt.

Even if this is true it says nothing about Stimson except he was
confused on that point.

It clearly does.

Of course you will give us the precise quote detailing when exactly *when*
this would have happened and you also tell us how this information was
beamed back in time to allied planners taking tough decisions.

The US was well aware of peace feelers being put out by Japan at least
two months before the bombs were dropped..

Not by any japanese in any position to deliver on a peace offer.

Nevermind Leahy whose own briefing to truman put allied casualities at
30-35% within 30 days of invasion.

But Leahy didn't think the landings would be necessary.

Leahy wasnt sat in a foxhole in Okinawa.

Irrelevant as to what he thought, but introducing irrelevancy
is your trademark, isn't it.

Not surprising, the allied butcher bill is irrelevant to types like you.

"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and
Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan.

Oh really. Have you asked anyone who would have been at the sharp end of
Operation Zipper that question.

I think his opinion based on the intelligence information available to him
is more credible than that of an infantryman.

Given you clearly *havent* a clue what operation zipper was and why the
bombs being dropped made a difference to those in it, your limited grasp of
the facts is showing again.


So Leahy would have preferred to starve the japanese 'civilians' to death
and keep allied naval personnel in harms way from daily kamikaze attack.
Very moral.

Your woeful comrehension skills noted - he was speaking of
something that had already happened.

He clearly *wasnt* because he hadnt an iota if japan was ever going to
surrender.

7 more days of fighting == 70000 chinese civilians dead.

14 more days == more chinese civilians dead than alleged 'civilian'
casualties at either hiroshima or nagasaki. Your cavalier disregard for
those who truly suffering as a consequence of japanese aggression is
pathetic.

Your tired little charade has relied on a website which peddles
alperovitzes line.

Unlike you , the site doesn't lie.




Yah whatever comrade.



greg

--
You do a lot less thundering in the pulpit against the Harlot
after she marches right down the aisle and kicks you in the nuts.