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Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
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Wed, 23 Jun 1999 03:52:06 GMT
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Richard Dee wrote:
> 
> 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

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.

> 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.

I think it is.

> 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.

War is hell.

--
Sincerely,

Christopher L. Weeks
central Missouri, USA



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  Re: Lego Holocaust art (Was: can someone help me identify these parts?)
 
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 03:52:06 GMT, Christopher L. Weeks uttered the following profundities... (...) The only positive thing was the quick and rapid end to the war. I still think that it could have been brought to just as rapid a close had the (...) (27 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?)
 
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:43:26 GMT, Scott Edward Sanburn uttered the following profundities... (...) Pearl Harbour was a military target. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were civilian cities. There were sufficient industrial and military targets available that (...) (27 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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