One year later...

[Dan_ref]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Oz Referee

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Does America go out of its way to kill civilians during wars? Do the words Hiroshima and Nagasaki mean anything to you? Look at Vietnam - invading a country to fight on "behalf" of a people that didn't want you.
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Yeah, Hiroshma & Nagasaki mean a lot to me. In 1944/45 my
father chased the Germans across Europe, dragged along by
Patton. When his war ended he, and a lot of other men,
(and I suspect men in your family) were getting ready to go
invade Japan. It took 2 bombs to convince the emperor that
he should put down his weapons. So it's easy to believe
the estimates of millions of casualties, mostly Japanese
civilians, if the allies would have had to invade Japan.

You are obviously a bright young guy. You should invest
some time looking closely at world events in the 1930's.
Much of what went on in Europe at that time applies to
today's world picture. In 1934 Germany left the League of
Nations and began re-arming in violation of treaties from
WW1, by mid 1940 Germany had invaded and defeated Poland,
Norway, Belguim, Denmark, the Netherlands and France. You
might also want to spend some time looking into the cold
war and in particular the Vietnam war. It's completely
untrue to say the people of S Vietnam did not want support
from the non-communist block of nations, which included
proud Australian forces.

http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm
http://users.mildura.net.au/users/ma.../austinvol.htm

added this link:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...417076,00.html

[Edited by Dan_ref on Sep 16th, 2002 at 10:10 AM]