I’d like to comment on what the blogger has posted in the link that you have provided -

http://www.naturalnews.com/019176.html

According to her Hiroshima and Nagasaki fact and fiction:
(Or shall I say her lies and her truths.)

• Lie: Leaflets were dropped on Japanese cities to warn civilians to evacuate.
• Truth: Leaflets were dropped after we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

(Leaflets were dropped prior to bombing. Granting leaflets were not dropped, sufficient warnings were released prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. Even the Japanese military became aware of the approaching bombing planes but has chosen to ignore them and has failed to warn its citizens.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

• Lie: Our use of the atomic bombs shortened the war.
• Truth: The Japanese were looking for peace when they returned from the Potsdam Conference on Aug. 3, 1945, three days before the U.S. military bombed Hiroshima.

(Nothing is more factual that right after the second atomic bombing, Japan immediately surrendered.)

http://home.att.net/~betsynewmark3/DebateonBomb.htm

(Of course, she can again debunk those items on the above link as US post war propagandas).

• Lie: We bombed Hiroshima, which was an important Japanese Army base.
• Truth: We bombed the city center of Hiroshima, which had a population of 350,000.

(Well, ok, Hiroshima was an army base with a population of 350,000.)

• Truth: Only four of the 30 targets were, in fact, military in nature.

(Ok, included in that four were Hiroshima and Nagasaki.)

• Lie: The destroyed area of Hiroshima contained major industrial targets.
• Truth: The only “industrial” targets were three textile mills.

(It also contained at the time of its bombing:

- A number of military camps were located nearby, including the headquarters of the Fifth Division and Field Marshal Shunroku Hata’s 2nd General Army Headquarters, which commanded the defense of all of southern Japan.

- Minor supply and logistics base for the Japanese military.

- The city was a communications center, a storage point, and an assembly area for troops.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

• Truth: Residential areas sustained the most damage.
• Truth: Less than 10 percent of Hiroshima’s manufacturing, transportation and storage facilities were damaged.

(Other non-atomic bombings have induced more damages to residential areas than those two atomic bombing. It was a war and opposing nations were aware of the realities of collateral damages.)

http://www.essortment.com/all/presidenttruman_rywp.htm

• Lie: Residual radiation was not a threat to the American soldiers who stayed to occupy Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Truth: The “black rain” that fell after the bombings contaminated the ground, which was one of the many sources of residual radiation.

(Then, it is conclusive that “all” American soldiers who set foot in Nagasaki and Hiroshima after the bombing should have been seriously affected by the residual radiation? )

The way I see it, no matter how that blogger wanted to make her post to have the appearance of a fact checked or fact based item, it still looks to me as an agenda based one.

In my opinion, the U.S. is the country that has the means and the set of balls to stop these monsters. But of course, that is putting it simply.

I’m not saying that Hiroshima and Nagasaki deserved the A-bombs. The attacks however were NOT unprovoked. Japan during the war was the last to respect the dignity and life of civilians. And honestly I believe that had they been the ones in possession of the A-Bombs, they would not have dropped 2, but 10.

Lastly, the Iraq war isn’t America’s war. It’s idiot Bush’s war. Actually, it was his father’s war that he is now fighting. Since more than 80% of Americans disapprove of him and this number is growing as we speak, what he’s doing is actually very un-American. I couldn’t wait for the day in January when a new President is inaugurated. Certainly, the rest of the world couldn’t wait either.

That two-liner, says it all,

The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, a military base, and America responded by bombing two cities with all the civilians in them. A group of extremists hijacked airplanes and attacked selected areas and America responded by invading Iraq.

the idiocy of the response, but how government propaganda can make everything seem alright.

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