Reply #68: Very Ironically... [View All]

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...there are probably a lot of Iraqis who currently feel exactly the same way about us.

We had a third atomic bomb ready after Nagasaki, but the reason we never dropped it is that Harry Truman stopped the campaign. Not because we thought it had worked to stop the war -- we were in fact amazed that it hadn't, not having counted on the completeness of destruction slowing the news, and our leaders knew the war was stopped anyway because we knew the surrender terms the Japanese were willing to consider and were really quite willing to offer them -- but because, as Truman wrote in his diary, he couldn't stand the thought of "killing all those kids."