Do any Americans feel guilty that they approved of the Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Most of us were not even alive then ... you ditz!

True but they didnt have to drop 2, and on civillian cities.

You are right x1000 They{we} would have fire bombed even more and had plans for it as had already been done on a limited scale. It would have been like Dresden on a scale that is unimaginable an actual hell on earth for sure.

What about Genecide of the American Indians.

I don't feel any guilt, firstly I didn't make the choice and secondly they attacked us, hid their bases in civilian cities, AND allied with a man who killed 10x as many jewish people ALONE then our nukes did in both incidents combined.
The first nuke is on us...the second nuke is on them. We gave them the option to surrender with fair conditions and they chose not too.

So, I don't feel guilty at all. They would have lost 10x as many men on both sides if they did a land invasion.


Just like all the blacks in the US crying over slavery still...get over it please. Every race has been a slave at some point, the difference is we cry less over it.

manifest destiny. God said it was ok.

The nuclear bomb, saved the day, with Hitler,s Fascist Regime, and Japans, Rule by the Sword, Regime, our balls would have been hanging, from the fences, that would have kept us from straying from our accomadation as slaves.The women would have been used for much dire, and sinister, events.
AMERICA, we love you.! History, is now providing information, that the timing of The 'DROP'to have been perfect . Like all else, even today, America with 'her allies, will remove Terrorist Regimes,as they are a Major Threat at home.At times though it must be tempting 'NOT' to use Nuclear Weapons, as a clean up tool. Remember what BUSH said you are either with us or against us. So to all others get your shit together,America will keep the Status Quo, regardless, of the cost.To keep the system running perfectly.
LEST WE FORGET

Can a bad tree bring forth good fruit, those who say the atomic bomb was justified are INSANE

Bohemian Grove

The Grove is particularly famous for a Manhattan Project planning meeting that took place there in September 1942, which subsequently led to the atomic bomb.

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The bomb is great wickedness, and only the usa has used it on civilians...screw the bastards in satan's capitol Washington D.C.

Japan was ready to surrender, but that did not matter to the murdering scum, they wanted Russia to see what they could do... it wasn't about lives...get a clue

From the National Archives

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document 17 A former ambassador to Japan, Grew’s knowledge of Japanese politics and culture informed his critical stance toward the concept of unconditional surrender. He believed it essential that the United States declare its intention to preserve the institution of the emperor. As he argued in this memorandum to President Truman, “failure on our part to clarify our intentions” on the status of the emperor “will insure prolongation of the war and cost a large number of human lives.” Documents like this have played a role in arguments developed by Alperovitz that Truman and his advisers had alternatives to using the bomb such as modifying unconditional surrender and that anti-Soviet considerations weighed most heavily in their thinking. By contrast, Herbert P. Bix has argued that the Japanese leadership would “probably not” have “surrendered if the Truman administration had clarified the status of the emperor” when it demanded unconditional surrender.

Nagasaki picture after the bomb

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the future of the usa

no. i wasn't even alive then.
you need to get over believing every damn thing the media says. use your gut instincts.

yeah

cause the japs that wewre screaming could have hurt us pilot's ears

and we should have sued the crap ass flat ass torturing raping nips

but owning their vcrap isle4 is good enough\

with bases on it

and we irradiated it again

lol

hey crap japs- wanna go another round?

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they dropped it on the two big war industrial cities. the engine of the japanese war. japane already showed to not fear death at all and blindly keep attacking in the face of assured death.

the whole war killid many many millions. it is just that creating and using these bombs moved the us partly on a new path that is about tyrany and misguided arrogance

Yes but few want to know the truth. They prefer to believe what they were told. That the Nazi were the worst.

Bull fucking shit they were going to surrender!! And please praytell, why didn't the Japanese surrender then, especially after we dropped the first bomb??
They were bent on world conquest just as Hitler was, and we did what we had to do to stop them. Period.

You are a fucking idiot! Go read some history books then realize how stupid your dumb little comment was.

I don't have a problem with Hiroshima, but I have misgivings about Nagasaki. I think the US administration should have given Japan a chance to realize how devastating Hiroshima was and to surrender, but instead they bombed Nagasaki just three days later.

You are right and that is why they bombed them. They knew that they were prepared to die to the last person. They only stopped when their Emperor told them to. After the bombs were dropped.

No shit, MY dad was a toddler when WWI ended. My mom's side was in Eastern Europe and suffered endless abuses and torment. So no, anything to stop lunatics from oppressing others, it's a good thing.

The people of japan were fodder anyway,t heir own leader sent them to their deaths, some as young as 13 as kamikazes. The Emperor was an idiot.

When will people get it? You teach people how to treat you. Something muslims and other bullies don't get. It looks pretty fucking disingenuous when you use women and kids as tenth rate citizens, and as human shields, then breast beat at their funeral. Bullshit. Do beat me to killing them, it's not garnering any sympathy. Actually WWII brought Asia out of the stone age.

Atomic bombing.

and I supose that justifies our crime?

we need a Regime change, can you go to the U.N. and rescue us ?

The ones in power in japan back then

were ruthless evil fucks

who had no care for their citizens

Wicked fire offerings that fly across the earth in cylinders that leave a deadly residue

It is obvious you have never been in combat.

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World War 2 Vet, OP? If you are, you know dang well that you knew nothing about the bombings until they'd happened. You also didn't know of the existence of the atomic bomb until it happened.

If you're of a mind to read history books, you'll also know that the firebombing of Dresden killed about four times more people--you feeling guilty about that, too?

I don't feel guilty about any of this stuff, as I wasn't born when it occurred and had no hand in any of it.

What I do feel bad about is how we seem to have to have a damned war every 18 years to keep the rich rich and kill off a percentage of the grown-children when they come of age. I don't feel guilty for this, but I sure feel bad about it. It's a barbaric way to run a planet.

You've been misinformed.

There were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

they had the chance to surrender after the first nuke, they still did not capitulate. so at the very least, the second one is all on them. (the politicians i mean)

as far as 'approval', the average american citizen joe sixpack not only did not have an opportunity to approve or disapprove (like that would happen) those weapons were extremely top secret. if you want someone to blame, blame Hirohito.

no there wasn't. nothing functional or deploy-able in any meaningful way.

We had a guy in the town I grew up in as a kid who'd flown in the scout plane that went ahead of the Enola Gay on the first bombing run.

He lost his mind due to the immensity of what he'd seen. He literally staggered and lurched around town like a zombie in a b-movie. Harmless, but out of his mind for the rest of his life.

I feel sad for him.

Also feel sad for my uncle Robert who lost his mind on D-Day. Feel sad for my mom's first fiance, who got both arms and both legs blown off by a landmine in Nurmburg, at the war's end. Feel sorry for the dad of one of my pals, who's arms are all scarred from the heat of a .30 cal. machine gun he ripped off it's stand to charge downhill at an endless wave of japanese troops. he broke their charge, got a medal, but was never the same. used to do nothing but be quiet and putter in his garden. Feel sorry for my dad, an aviator who even when I was a kid in the '50's would periodically wake up screaming at night, something about the plane being on fire. Great stuff.

War's a huge frikken abomination. No guilt, unless you've done something to be guilty about.

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