Nuke their ass, take their gas...

[Bruce]

I didn't go thru anything like the PT was.
I've talked to alot of guys that did.
The old guys have alot to share on the subject.

I try to keep things at a low simmer, and not go to full boil on some issues
Bruce


----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Hermann" <bearbvd at mindspring.com>
To: <gmecm at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Nuke their ass, take their gas...


> At 5:54 PM 9/15/00, Bruce wrote:
> >Whatever,
> >  it took a second nuke for them to surrender.
> >Notes and $hit done behind closed doors is all open to speculation.
> >They could have yelled loud enough after one to stop the second one. THEY
> >CHOISE not to.  Well, second one was a charm.
> >After the pain and suffering they caused, I wouldn't have accepted any
then
> >less then an unconditional surrender.  How many GIs died in the PT?.
> >They got off cheap in my book
> >Bruce
>
> Gee Bruce--you're only about 20% as forceful as my dad's speech on the
> matter used to be! I wonder why?? (Tarawa, Kwajalein mebbe??)
>
> Greg
> >
> >
> >From: "Dave Williams" <dave.williams at chaos.lrk.ar.us>
> >Subject: Re: Nuke their ass, take their gas...
> >> -> As horrible as it is ,the ONLY thing that brought Imperial Japan to
> >> -> it's knees
> >> -> was the Pay Load of the Enola Gay.
> >>  Not true.  The Japanese had been trying to open diplomatic channels to
> >> negotiate an armistice or surrender well before the Potsdam conference.
> >> Messages got passed to Truman via the OSS and State Department, but he
> >> chose to get some return for all the money that went down the Manhattan
> >> rabbit hole first, and then negotiate for unconditional surrender
> >> instead of an armistice.
> >>  This is ordinary history; try Winston Churchill's "Closing The Ring",
> >> Calvocoressi's "Total War", or Rhodes' "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"
> >> for more details.
>
>
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