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Originally Posted by Pacifier
LOL thats priceless. So germans have no right, not now and not in the furure to critizise anyone because our atrocities in the past?
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Of course you do--it just makes you look silly!
It resembles a situation in which a mugger attacks a karate expert, and then whines that his intended victim defended himself too roughly.
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Just for your information. I never assisted in the invation of another nation. 
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It would be highly beneficial to you if you talked to some of the people who did the "invating," before they pass away.
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Once again one atrocity doesn't jusitfy another. If you're wife gets raped you don't have the right to rape the other guys wife too.
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I never said I did, but I believe I have the right to do whatever is necessary to make him stop.
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"In 1945 Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act? During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment, was I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953-56. Garden City: Doubleday.
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I'm sure you can find people who think it wasn't necessary. Can you find any who can explain why, if Japan was so ready to surrender, that they didn't do so after Hiroshima?
More to follow when I have a little more time.