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Originally posted by Pellevoisin
As with most assertions claiming the numbers of casualties from a land invasion justifying the use of nuclear bombs, they are baseless and beneath contempt. Civilian populations are never to be declared enemy combatants and killed or simply chalked up as collateral damage. The USA only recognises this as truth when its own civilians are killed.
Originally posted by Pellevoisin
Yes. Baseless. Defense of one's Homeland is to be expected even to the arming of children, but drawing numbers of fatalities out of the air so as to justify the use of an unjustifiable indiscriminate weapon of total war is grotesque as it is baseless.
Originally posted by deltaboy
I'll just take my chance on bombing from the air than face kids willing to kill me.
Originally posted by Pellevoisin
Cowardice is revealed in many amazing ways as are crimes against humanity.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader on Thursday rejected reports of a power struggle within the Islamic Republic's leadership and praised President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a fierce critic of the West.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's highest authority, was speaking two days after clerics picked former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to lead a powerful government body, a move some analysts and diplomats saw as a setback for Ahmadinejad.
Originally posted by carewemust
Getting back on-topic..does a Russian Parliament Vice Chairman have
the power to arm Iran with weapons?
Originally posted by deltaboy
If I remember correctly, the Japanese Army was willing to fight to the death, even to the point of arming women and girls with bamboo sticks and little boys armed with explosives vests to target American tanks when landing on the beaches of Japan.
Originally posted by BitRaiser
You do know that it's a matter of record that Japan was actively trying to negotiate peace before the Bombs were dropped, yeah?
There's still some debate as to whether or not they were ready to surrender, but the war could have ended without nuking countless civilians.
Critical Asian Studies
Manhattan Project Interactive History