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Re: My Concession (for John mostly)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 1 Apr 2003 05:15:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> 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
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> Wrong. http://www.doug-long.com/
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> > (which were that the war was going to
> > continue to the absolute bitter end).
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> Wrong again.
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> > The Emperor in fact could not
> > surrender until he had some face-saving way of doing it.
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> Ah at last something approaching reality! 1 outta 3 aint bad.
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> > Viola! Did him a
> > favor.
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> Whatever you reckon.
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> ROSCO
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 gain-saying is the stuff of Monty Python routines. If you
can't give me a reason, I can't judge whether you have a point or not.
3: The part about "doing him a favor" was a joke. Relax.
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) This doesn't sound to me like a country whose intentions "were that the war was going to continue to the absolute bitter end" and Truman had full knowledge of it. --- begin quote --- July 1945 - Japan's peace messages Still, the messages from (...) (24 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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