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Originally Posted by Rochard
Perhaps.
But you can argue that if the United States didn't drop those two bombs, millions more would have died. Imagine how many people would have died if the war dragged on another two years with a million Americans invading Japan.
You also have to look at this from a historical perspective. The Geneva Convention didn't exist then; An invading military force would brutally decimate and enslave an entire civilian population. It was either destroy them or they would brutally enslave us.
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That is what I argued, didn't I?
Nuclear washout of their forces in the Pacific.
Unless you are trying to say they would have docked everything in the Aluetian Islands, relocated it to Alaska and then rolled in through Canada.
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Approach the mirrored reflection saying his name three times : "Butcher .... Butcher .... Butcher ....."
and wait to see if this Bogeyman urban legend manifests in the background, looming over shoulder
While your neighbors were busy killing off everyone in the neighborhood
with your own butcher knife in hand concealed behind your back
you stood for
ever before the window saying
nothing