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02-16-2011 , 05:43 PM

#326

Ahigh

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FourtyFour

Good question, i cant really think of any significant news agency not paid to say what the gov wants..

Wait...then where do YOU get your news from?

02-16-2011 , 05:44 PM

#327

Ahigh

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hadis

Ok, fair point ,but it not necessary means that the best targets for the bombs were major cities.

Not sure they would have been terribly effective over the ocean...what did fish ever do to you?

02-16-2011 , 05:46 PM

#328

Hadis

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Ahigh

Not sure they would have been terribly effective over the ocean...what did fish ever do to you?

They looked at me funny,army base would be fine too.

02-16-2011 , 05:47 PM

#329

will1530

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hadis

Ok, fair point ,but it not necessary means that the best targets for the bombs were major cities.

Ok, what would have happened if Japan didn't surrender if we dropped one bomb off shore and another in the country side? If I remember correctly we only had one more bomb ready to deploy after the first two.

02-16-2011 , 05:48 PM

#330

[Phill]

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Didnt America more or less wipe out the entire military infrastructure before the sustained firebombing campaign that preceded dropping the bomb?

02-16-2011 , 05:49 PM

#331

ikestoys

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hadis

Ok, fair point ,but it not necessary means that the best targets for the bombs were major cities.

The fact that it took not one, but two shots at major cities really hurts this argument. We also didn't have 100s of nuclear bombs, we only had a couple.

02-16-2011 , 05:49 PM

#332

[Phill]

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Originally Posted by will1530

There were plans and materials to construct and drop a bomb every fortnight for 6 months iirc.

Edit,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_...tacks_on_Japan
Not far off. Certainly more than three ready to be used with no capabilities beyond those three.

02-16-2011 , 05:55 PM

#333

KB24

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Ike,

English is my third language. My point was that they forcibly got slaves from Africa and tortured them and treated them like animals. as usual, u missed the main point(i.e., the US was extremely cruel to the Africans) and picked on something trivial

Last edited by KB24; 02-16-2011 at 06:07 PM.

02-16-2011 , 06:07 PM

#334

will1530

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I said ready to deploy (which according to wiki, it wasn't even ready at that point) of course more were in production. You also have to remember that the Soviet Union had declared war on Japan by this point, and were getting ready to invade Japan. We wanted to avoid a situation where Japan was going to be divided between the USSR and the US

02-16-2011 , 06:15 PM

#335

ikestoys

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Quote:

Originally Posted by KB24

1) It's not trivial
2)

Quote:

The shippers were, in order of scale, the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Spanish, the Dutch (a significant number of the Dutch being ethnically jewish, see Jews and the slave trade) , and North Americans

I'm sorry you suck at english, but that's your fault not mine. America didn't enslave Africa. They didn't start the slave trade. They weren't even the main people removing slaves from Africa. You have an absolutely terrible base knowledge of history.

02-16-2011 , 06:22 PM

#336

KB24

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Are you saying the US wasn't cruel to the Africans? That's my only point here. That they were. They bought slaves and absolutely treated them like animals. All the other stuff you're bringing up is irrelevant to the point I'm making. If you disagree and say that the US wasn't cruel to the blacks then, I'm all ears...

02-18-2011 , 05:29 PM

#337

Almond

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It isn't over Iraqi deaths, but saw Baghdad wants the US to pay 1 billion for damages done to the city.

http://dougpowers.com/2011/02/18/bag...n-for-damages/

02-25-2011 , 12:31 AM

#338

fullontilt87

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lol, Doug Powers

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