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Re: First entry in "predict the responses!"
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Wed, 22 May 2002 20:30:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
And if they did, for the love of God, tell me to what end?  Anyone who would
do such a thing *is* irrational!

You mean like dropping bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima?

No argument.

-- Hop-Frog



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  Re: First entry in "predict the responses!"
 
(...) No, there was a rational reason for dropping those-- to end the war, and prevent even *more* widespread killing. And it worked. That is not to say that that call was a no-brainer. It was an agonizing decision to make, and truthfully, the (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) Not my spin. That is *totally* putting the situation WAY out of context. As I mentioned before, I kind of question the motives of people who would put *so* much importance upon this minor problem (in the context of all of the problems on earth (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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