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Re: Hiroshima-Was It Necessary?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:24:03 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> But this is a thread about Hiroshima. Tying it back, if you support
> organizations that consistently and deliberately target civilians in an
> undeclared war, I am wondering how you can condemn civilian loss of life in
> a declared war, and further, in one in which the entire civilian population
> attacked is working as hard as it can to stoke the war machine of an evil
> empire.
I've gotta pull you up on that one, Larry. Just as not all US citizens are
"good" or support the current war, I see it as impossible to make such a huge
generalisation about Japanese civilians (no matter where they happened to live
/ work) in 1945.
ROSCO
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