Lest we forget: American atrocities in Hiroshima

[Loki]

On August 6, 1945, the United States of America deliberately killed 200,000 people in a single city in Japan, Hiroshima, by dropping an atom bomb. The US is the only nation to have massacred people by using nuclear weapons. Quite ironic that they are calling for nations like Iran to not have such weapons, since they've been the only ones using it ... with devastating effect.

http://www.en.rian.ru/video/20100806/160097197.html

[The Lawspeaker]

They have killed 200.000 people but saved millions upon millions of Japanese lifes while doing that as Japan was to be invaded in 1946. Estimations of possible victims vary but it would have been likely that all of Japan would have been a "Battle of Berlin" with millions of people charging at the Allies in a national suicide. This could have killed maybe as much as 10 million people and (some estimates) 1 million Allied troops. Killing 200.000 is brutal but a nice clean deal compared to that possible massacre.

Of course they didn't know about radiation (sickness) in those days.

[Loki]

They have killed 200.000 people but saved millions upon millions of Japanese lifes while doing that as Japan was to be invaded in 1946.

Or ... how about just not invading Japan and sign a peace treaty? Peace is not gay, it's cool.

[The Lawspeaker]

Or ... how about just not invading Japan and sign a peace treaty? Peace is not gay, it's cool.

Japan attacked the United States on December 7, 1941 and had been behaving aggressively against for instance China since 1931. They had it coming.

[Smaland]

The file containing the above leaflet is named "Firebombing leaflet.jpg"; however, it was dropped on 1 August 1945 on Hiroshima, Nagasaki and 33 other Japanese cities.


This is an English translation of the Japanese text on the reverse of the leaflet: “Read this carefully as it may save your life or the life of a relative or friend. In the next few days, some or all of the cities named on the reverse side will be destroyed by American bombs. These cities contain military installations and workshops or factories which produce military goods. We are determined to destroy all of the tools of the military clique which they are using to prolong this useless war. But, unfortunately, bombs have no eyes. So, in accordance with America's humanitarian policies, the American Air Force, which does not wish to injure innocent people, now gives you warning to evacuate the cities named and save your lives. America is not fighting the Japanese people but is fighting the military clique which has enslaved the Japanese people. The peace which America will bring will free the people from the oppression of the military clique and mean the emergence of a new and better Japan. You can restore peace by demanding new and good leaders who will end the war. We cannot promise that only these cities will be among those attacked but some or all of them will be, so heed this warning and evacuate these cities immediately.”

Source: Wikipedia commons

(Smaland now proceeds to his fallout shelter to wait this one out ... )

[Loki]

They had it coming.

[The Lawspeaker]

So what did the Japanese do to deserve it?




Chinese civilians being buried alive..




The Japanese stole women and raped them.. had them work as prostitutes. This includes European (mainly British, Dutch and Australian) women. Dutch women.

[The Lawspeaker]

Can someone put those pictures in Spoiler Tages please ? It doesn't seem to work for me.

[Guapo]

So what did the Japanese do to deserve it?

I could give 2 shits what the Jap and Yank armies did to each other but for fuck sakes, when will man stop killing innocent people and babies because they are the 'enemy'? I sure hope there is some kind of punishment after death.

[Megrez]

I don't really care about the dropping of nuclear devices, but rather about the hypocrisy of the USA bestowing upon themselves the titles of liberators, champions of freedom and peace after this. And gullible people buying it.

America is not fighting the Japanese people but is fighting the military clique which has enslaved the Japanese people. The peace which America will bring will free the people from the oppression of the military clique and mean the emergence of a new and better Japan.