have to go to work, but i'll respond to one point quickly...
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Yea. *US* lives were saved, million odd evil jap civvies were killed but what the heck.
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I hear this shit spouted off all the time. Where did you get that fucking number? Did you pull it out of your ass or what?
Try ~100,000 next time, which is an order of magnitude LESS than what you stated.
As for it just saving US lives... HOLY SHIT JAGUAR. PLEASE go read a fucking book about WHAT THE GROUND WAR WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE. It is KNOWN that many of the Japanese would have FOUGHT WITH SPOONS AND ROCKS until they were OBLITERATED. Estimated death toll of a ground invasion was in the 1.5 million number on the Japanese side and it wasn't too great for us either. Are you aware that on Okinawa, when we took the island and were telling Japanese citizens that it was okay, we weren't going to hurt them... they were taking their families and jumping off cliffs? This was the kind of shit we were trying to AVOID by showing the Emperor that war wasn't a GOOD IDEA. It's a good damn thing that he bought it, too.