Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:

>> Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com> wrote:
>> > On 10/20/2004 8:00 PM, Ernest Schaal wrote:
>>
>> > Did Lt. Calley also deserve his presidential pardon?
>>
>> Nope. Shoulda been shot.

> Thank you.

For what? This was not for you, Mr Takabayashi.

>> >> As for the A-bombing, I don't know if that is really an atrocity, since
>> >> Japan would not have surrendered if both bombs had not been dropped.
>>
>> > I think your statement would make more sense if you put "as soon" after
>> > the word "surrendered" and tack an "IMHO" onto the end of the sentence.
>>
>> And the issue (or, among the issues) is which way caused more deaths?

> Not dropping the bomb or waiting for surrender didn't cause any deaths.

Silly boy. 

The Japanese were murdering thousands of Asians almost daily (I know,
you don't care.) They were preparing to execute (literally) hundreds of 
thousands more in Indochina at the very least. Further, they were dying
of starvation and malnutrition.

Really, you have no idea what the war was like.

Mike