Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Monday, August 02, 2004
Two Traditions: WMD and Official Disinformation
The decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan was made on December 7, 1941, by the Japanese.
Posted by Ed Martin on from 08/04 at 06:54 PMVery dramatic reply...but precious little historical validity. The build-up to Pearl Harbor began two decades prior to the attack.
Read more here:
http://www.altpr.org/apr15/surprise.html
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 08/04 at 06:58 PMOn Dec. 7, 1941, Japan made the decision, at the same time it was bombing a U.S. colonial military outpost, that less than four years later it would drop two a-bombs on itself. Very interesting theory. Sounds even more far-fetched than those people who say the Bush administration rigged the WTC with explosives and that it was a missile, not a passenger jet, that crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Or to interpret your comment in a slightly different manner, let’s say some group or nation nukes two major U.S. cities, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Using your logic, the supporters of the people who nuked the U.S. cities would probably say the decision to commit such atrocities was made by the United States when it invaded/bombed/destabilized the Philippines, Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Iran, Iraq, Vietnam, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, etc.
Posted by Mark Hand on from 08/09 at 09:11 AMWhile I agree with much of what is said in the article...the sequence of Truman quotes represents a bit of a hatchet job given that they tend to confuse different numbers.....dead Americans vs dead Amerians + Japanese and casualties (dead + wounded) vs dead.
Posted by Tom Warn on from Montreal.... 08/09 at 10:13 AMI don’t know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein
No individual can live alone; no nation can live alone, and as long as we try, the more we are going to have war in this world. Now we must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” - The Honorable Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890-1969 34th President of the United States Supreme Commander, Integrated European Defense Forces
As of 1995, we have spent $3.719 TRILLION dollars for nuclear weapons.’’
The US taxpayer has bought 20,000 nuclear weapons.Posted by Larry on from 10/23 at 06:49 PM
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