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Re: My Concession (for John mostly)
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Date: 
Tue, 1 Apr 2003 02:41:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:

Oh no!  Not the "should we have dropped 'the bomb'" debate again?!?  No,
despite lame attempts at recent revisionism, we had no way to know what
Japan intended beyond its action

Wrong. http://www.doug-long.com/

(which were that the war was going to
continue to the absolute bitter end).

Wrong again.

The Emperor in fact could not
surrender until he had some face-saving way of doing it.

Ah at last something approaching reality! 1 outta 3 aint bad.

Viola!  Did him a
favor.

Whatever you reckon.

ROSCO



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  Re: My Concession (for John mostly)
 
(...) 1: I read the site before I posted, and for that matter I read the site the previous time this came up. You may wish to actually quote the exact passage that you are refering to, since what I read would seem to support me. 2: Unsupported (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) Oh no! Not the "should we have dropped 'the bomb'" debate again?!? No, despite lame attempts at recent revisionism, we had no way to know what Japan intended beyond its action (which were that the war was going to continue to the absolute (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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