My opinion of sooo many people on here has gone way way down.

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Originally posted by Caela B. If he was executed due to actions made that killed hundreds of people, why was there no consequence against Truman for ordering the catastrophe of Hiroshima? Instead he was glorified and he killed hundreds of thousands.

Holy shit thats an embarrassing question. Go read a fucking book about WWII in the Pacific and then right after that read about a little country that used to be the USSR that we were attempting to scare off so we didn't get into a MAD situation.

If you don't think that was a tough fucking call to make compared to some nutfuck in Iraq gassing people he didn't feel like sharing ground with...

That is one of the most uneducated questions I have ever heard.

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Originally posted by Caela Why was he just hanged? Wouldn't it be a more severe punishment to let him suffer other ways?

What, the pre-emptive invasion of a non-threatening sovereign country and consequential deaths of thousands, including the acting leader (all protected under international law) isn't enough for you, you want more blood? This whole state sponsored murder thing has to stop somewhere.


Fuck, I can't believe I got drawn into this thread.

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Originally posted by Caela it's official, as announced by CNN. Two questions: A. Why was he just hung? Wouldn't it be a more severe punishment to let him suffer other ways? B. If he was executed due to actions made that killed hundreds of people, why was there no consequence against Truman for ordering the catastrophe of Hiroshima? Instead he was glorified and he killed hundreds of thousands.

A. cuz thats how they do it. like we have lethal injections here, they got hangings.

B.

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Originally posted by Orbax That is one of the most uneducated questions I have ever heard.

Seriously, my face actually did look like this -> when I read that.

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Originally posted by XoxidE A. cuz thats how they do it. like we have lethal injections here, they got hangings. B.

In regard to "A" its because theres no good way to kill people and giving a "more horrible" way of death would cause more problems than a time honored classic - hanging.

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ok...i obviously made a misinformed comment... educate me on why the question i posed made no sense.

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Originally posted by Caela i posed

A few words will do no justice to the enormity of World War II. All I can suggest is that for the truly interested, there is a very large body of literature in existence that details the situation.

A passing interest and some trivia about it would be meaningless without a contextual understanding of world politics from 1912 to the 1980's.

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Originally posted by chach

????

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Originally posted by Orbax

well then the American History classes I enrolled in next semester will do me good

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