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Originally Posted by Rodney
Mmmm, well, history is a fluid thing. It's sometimes what the winners say, or the leaders of the winners say. I'm not specifically endorsing this article, a commentary from the LA Times, but it shows a different point of view -- that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were _not_ necessary.
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Remember the invasion of Okinawa? Remember the film of local civilians leaping to their deaths off of a cliff with their children in their arms rather than to be captured by the Americans? now imagine that on the scale of an invasion of the home islands...