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Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found
EccentricAnomaly writes "In 1945 journalist George Weller snuck past the American occupying forces and became the first American Journalist to see the devastation left by the atomic bomb that fell on Nagasaki. His story infuriated MacArthur, who had it quashed. The Japanese paper, Mainichi, has now published Weller's account. CNN has a story discussing how it was found." From the Mainichi article: "As one whittles away at embroidery and checks the stories, the impression grows that the atomic bomb is a tremendous, but not a peculiar weapon. The Japanese have heard the legend from American radio that the ground preserves deadly irradiation. But hours of walking amid the ruins where the odor of decaying flesh is still strong produces in this writer nausea, but no sign or burns or debilitation."
While today Bush swaggers with a small stick.
--- guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people ---
Who's tortured? Hope you're not talking about Gitmo or Abu Ghraib. The prisoners in Gitmo eat better meals than our military in Iraq or schoolchildren in our schools. The localized abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib was hazing at worst. Frat pledges endure worse than these prisoners have had to put up with. Doesn't make it right, but it's a far cry from torture.
And its target being the Mitsubishi naval yard which was 5 miles off. To add to that it also landed smack on top of a residential district with more then 50% of the ground 0 being a civilian target.
It was a war crime. Same as Dresden and same as Hiroshima.
Baker's Law: Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it
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I'm about tired of all this "hand wringing" BS about oh my, we dropped the bomb on the poor innocent peace loving people of japan. Screw em! A. They started the d**n war! B. They murdered, raped hundered of thousands of people in China, Korea, Phillipines. C. Ask any soldier who was lucky enough to survive Iwo Jima, Okinawa et al what they think of the peace loving people of Japan. The purpose of a war is to KILL PEOPLE and BREAK THINGS. War is an ugly brutial business. If I was a president and had a weapon that could possibly end the suffering of a war sooner, I'd use it in a heart beat! My grandfather and uncle were with the 5th marine division on Iwo, Tariwa, Okinawa. Both came back completely changed. My grandfather lost the hearing in one ear when a Jap mortar fell close to the foxhole he and his buddies were in. He survived, one of his buddies died, the other lost a leg. My mom said that after he got back, he would wake up in the night sweating, and screaming. He was the lucky one.... he came back! Thousands did not. Had we invaded the Japanese islands (operations olympia and corrinet) we would have lost thousands upon thousands of American lives, not to mention the amount of japanese killed. In this politically correct world we live in, we are causing undo suffering because we have to be "sensitive" to the (insert your best line) of the enemy. Screw them! As Gen. Patton said "dying for your country isn't honorable....make the other poor dumb bastard die for his country!" (paraphrasing) Sadly, I think it will take another terrorist attack to finally wake this country up, and put this PC crap out to pasture where it belongs! Perhaps if a plane full of gas landed in the middle of hollywood, or on rodeo' drive, then maybe they will wake up!