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Subject:	Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Tue, 22 Jun 1999 21:50:54 GMT
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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:43:26 GMT, Scott Edward Sanburn uttered the following profundities... > War II. The japanese were the ones that destroyed Pearl Harbor, killing innocent > civilians, plus military personnel. We had to respond, and we did. The United > States had invasion plans for the mainland of Japan, and were gearing up for > that until the nuclear bombs were ready and the go ahead was ordered. Wars are > not nice, are not friendly, and most of all, not politically correct. When you > fight a war, to win, you use whatever means necessary in order to do that. > Estimates were over 1 million to two million Allies casualties, and the > estimates for winning were from 1948 to 1950! The nuclear weapons ended Japans > ability to respond, and they surrendered. Yes it was horrible, yes it was > tragic, but it was war. The Japanese started it, we finished it. Pure and > simple. We do not need to apologize. Pearl Harbour was a military target. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were civilian cities. There were sufficient industrial and military targets available that would have resulted in Japanese surrender. Granted, what the Japanese did throughout Asia was horrendous, and that it was war, but that is no justification for incinerating civilian cities. And yes, I am fully aware of Dresden, a civilian target, targeted by the Royal Air Force, with a similar, if not higher, death toll. The only difference was that incendiary bombs were used, not atomic. But no less reprehensible. -- _____________________________________________________________ richard.dee@nospam.virgin.net remove nospam.(lugnet excepted) Web Site: http://freespace.virgin.net/richard.dee/lego.html ICQ 13177071 AOL Instant Messenger: RJD88888 _____________________________________________________________ For the best Lego news, visit: http://www.lugnet.com/news/ Need instructions for a model? http://www.kl.net/scans/ _____________________________________________________________

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		Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
(...) I'm not convinced. I think we basically had to really drive home that we don't view the world the way they did, and that we were willing to do anything possible to destroy them. I think we managed that with as little loss of value as possible. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
(...) Do you have specific examples? This is a very vague and rather flagrant insult for the South, especially since there are a lot of places everywhere in the world where people of all creeds, colors, etc., can not go because of safety concerns. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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