[JohnW]

I get mighty tired of our own side calling us terrorists and murderers and and all that crap. On another site on which I post I am a minority among bleeding heart liberals who do nothing but pull to pieces the British and American governments. Here is a response I posted on the subject of the Hiroshima bomb.

You are right, many thousands of people in Hiroshima died on that fateful day. However, I wonder how many lives were saved because those people lost theirs. The dropping of the two atomic bombs brought Japan to its knees and resulted in their surrender. America was at the time preparing to invade Japan and many thousands of war-weary soldiers on both sides were set to lose their lives. When war is waged on the ground in any country, it is impossible not to have many civilian lives lost in the fighting. I'm quite sure that most of the Japanese people thought that their country was 'in the right' and would have looked upon the Americans as an unjust invading army who would rape, pillage and generally strip the country of its assets and freedom, and this could well have resulted in many civilians taking up arms and killing and dying also. Let's just remember here who started the bloody war in the first place. Had the bombs not been dropped, the resulting ground offensive could have killed just as many Japanese as did the bombs. The fact that they were dropped undoubtedlly saved many American lives.
Let us now look at the aftermath. Did America go in and take over the country, strip it of its assets and enslave the Japanese people? No. Japan is now one of America's biggest trading partners and was given a great deal of help after the war to help their trade and help them to be accepted back into the world as a respected country. They're doing very nicely thank you. Same with Germany. Would America have been afforded the same consideration if Japan had won the war? I think not. Would England have been afforded the same consideration by Germany if they had won the war? I think not. It seems to me that a lot of people are forgetting that, generally speaking, we're the bloody good guys.