"Rats" wrote in message
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Rubbish. Soldiers have a duty to "die for their country". Innocent
civilians
don't. As a soldier myself I was ready to kill the enemy soldier and to
die
at his hands if I failed. Dropping nukes on a civilian population is a war
crime.


To paraphrase George Patton

You dont win wars by dying for your country
You win by making the other poor dumb SOB die for his

Throwing away 1/2 million Allied and several million Japanese lives
away by invading Japan instead of using the bomb would
have been the true war crime.

Keith