Nuke their ass, take their gas...

[Greg Hermann]

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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