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+4 1. portlyfrank commented 16 years ago on video Hiroshima

I cannot believe the sanctimonious bilge that this clip has caused to be written. Some sixty years after the event it is fine to cry Shame USA Shame, but please imagine how it was in July 1945 when the world was exhausted by war. Millions had died, millions had been disfigured, the US and Britain were almost bankrupt and the enormous task of sorting out the refugees and starting to rebuild the shattered countries and lives was just getting underway. The occupation of Okinawa had cost tens of thousands of lives on both sides and the massacres in the Philippines, China,the East Indies, Thailand and the POW camps had been revealed.
The Allies had a weapon that they believed could end the war. Their belief proved true. How many thousands on both sides` were saved by Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I strongly suggest that everyone stand for a period in silence at the USS Arizona memorial in Hawaii and try to imagine Sunday 7 December 1941, or stand on a battlefield in Europe and see the row upon row of crosses extending it seems to the horizon and then and only then take a high moral stand