Hopefully this never has to happen again in the modern day.

I can't imagine they're still holding a grudge.
After all, Hiroshima was no 9/11.

you're right theo, hiroshima was no 9/11. it was so much worse:
-(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima)
On August 6, 1945, the nuclear weapon Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima by the crew of the American Enola Gay, directly killing an estimated 70,000 people. Approximately 69% of the city's buildings were completely destroyed, and 6.6 percent severely damaged. In the following months, an estimated 60,000 more people died from injuries or radiation poisoning. In all, 60 percent of deaths are estimated to be caused by burns, 20 percent due to trauma from the blast, and 20 percent due to radiation illness.
-(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11)
There were 2,974 fatalities, not including the 19 hijackers: 246 on the four planes (no one on board any of the hijacked aircraft survived), 2,603 in New York City in the towers and on the ground, and 125 at the Pentagon. Among the fatalities were 343 New York City Fire Department firefighters, 23 New York City Police Department officers, and 37 Port Authority Police Department officers.

just because 9/11 happened within the last 10 years, and, I assume, in your own country, does not mean it can compare to the destruction of hiroshima and nagasaki. that comment can mean a few things: either you're ignorant on the subject and don't know the facts behind either 9/11 or hiroshima, or you have an inflated sense of the value of american life over that of japanesse life. i hope it's ignorance.

Meh, and how many atrocities have the Japanese committed against the people (especially the women and children) of China and Korea which they still deny to this day not to mention kicking it off with the US with Pearl Harbor.

The Japanese had it coming.

The worst part is that USA could have easily avoided the war and the nuclear strikes were totally unnecessary. Too bad the true motives and political setups are too complex to be taught to children in school, so everybody just remembers that Japan attacked first and USA had to defend itself and so on...

It sure as hell ended the war quickly. An invasion of japan would have been an endless shitshow. Nonetheless, war is awful and barbaric no matter which way you dice it.

Roofles you disgust me.

Explain yourself, ajkido, or people will just ignore you.

If you go to Japan TODAY you will find in their museums a whitewash of the atrocities they committed in China and Korea. It really is kind of striking hwo they don't deal with their own issues in the war. At least in America the issue of the atomic bomb and it's use have been debated ad infinitum.

Hir-OWNED-shima is ancient history. Seen what's been happening in London lately?

A mushroom or ten is needed over several sand-choked areas of the globe. Forget negotiating with certain suicidal, homicidal religious fanatics or hoping they'll change.

We know what THEY'D do if THEY had the Bomb. Let's not disappoint them.

Took about 4 days and 3 hours. Who wins the pool for how long it takes QM to pipe in with a "nuke 'em all to Paradise" comment?

Although the bombs and their aftermaths were horrible, many don't know realize just how much of Japan we had destroyed by firebombing before Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

And guessandcheck, theo was just being sarcastic. Couldn't you smell it?

I imagine that what the Japanese were thinking was the same thing Americans were thinking on 9/11. They like us, took war to other places and had not experienced it's destruction on their own soil.

quantammushy you're talking about all those homicidal religious fanatics in the whitehouse aren't you?

Geez, QM is fucked up.
Apparently, membership in the Republican party nowadays has gone from requiring stupid to mandating plain crazy.

Listen, all you have to remember is the people who died. Think about them.
(Empathy) We're not in control of what happens in a war. The citizens of the country being sent off to fight a war they'd probably rather not fight.
IMO, leaders of the world should settle it in a boxing ring. Would be interesting .

When the show Survivor first came out, my high school physics teacher pointed out that they should instead use politicians on the show - give them rifles and leave them on an island together... last man standing is the "Survivor." I'd rather watch that or the boxing match over a political debate :-P

"Hir-OWNED-shima is ancient history. Seen what's been happening in London lately?"

There it is: the neo-con attitude to history (and its relevance) in a nutshell. Nevermind that there are people in the video that were ALIVE when it happened, it's still "ancient history." What a fucking retard. The scary thing is that about 30% of the American people want folks like QM running the country.

QM, do you have to wear a bib to catch all the drool?

Love all the labels...like everything fits in a fucking box....all you monkeys, knuckle draggers all we are...The Japanese had it coming?? We all do man....

http://www.videosift.com/video/911-The-New-Hiroshima

I don't know if it's the right time to say this but the thumbnail looks like a slow rising boner...

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