>>Hi Brandon
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>>does that mean your would have opposed any bombing in WWII.
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>>I support it as I think it degraded the economies and manufacturing abilities of the AXIS powers. As precision bombing was pretty much a joke it inevitably involved heavy civilian casualties.
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>>OTOH I have read some discussion of wether the benefit was outweighed by the effort necessary to produce the bomber fleets on our side.
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>>The atomic bombs did speed Japanese surrender but you could say the biggest contributor to the huge casualties towards the end of the war was the Allies insistence on unconditional surrender.
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>The questions are an aside to the point which I want to clarify. The original anti-Obama rant based on a U.S. attempt to apologize for massive (200,000+) Japanese civilian casualties as a result of our atomic bombs is ridiculous.
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>When we dropped those 2 atomic bombs the civilians that were instantly incinerated were the lucky ones. Tens of thousands of civilians (including women and children) clung to life in agony for hours, days, and months before succumbing to their radiation burns/poisoning.
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>Yes, I support the regular bombing of strategic targets even if our accuracy was less than ideal. Obviously there were civilian casualties with regular bombing but the goal was to take out specific enemy assets. The atomic bomb, on the other hand, obliterated 200,00+ civilians of which less than 1% (I'm guessing) of the damage was to strategic targets. We dropped these atomic bombs with full knowledge that massive civilian casualties would be the outcome. That is damn sure something to offer an apology for, especially given our friendly relations with Japan since.
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>That the original post sought to criticize Obama's administration for this offer is ludicrous and an example of just how far the anti-Obama movement has moved. Everything is Obama's fault. Everything he does is asinine. They have lost objective viewpoint completely and they can't see it. I'm not a fan of Obama's policies (I'm a fiscal conservative), but I'm not filled with the vitriol that drips from this anti-Obama demographic.

LOL. Good stuff. I question the usefulness and appropriateness of apologizing, and you lash out again. You must be fun at parties.