Regarding the original topic, I watched a documentary about the Bombings yesterday, and about the War in the Pacific and the Japanes campaigns from 1931 onward.
Regarding the Justification for the Bombings, recently Japan released previously classified documents that had been handed back to them byt he Americans, this was documenttation that was a detailed plan of how they would defend the Home Islands and of casualty Estimates based on actions on outlying islands that had already fallen.
The Japanese Army estimated that the Allies would win a total victory, however they said this victory would cost...
Between 10 and 15 Million Japanese Military personnel Killed
Between 5 and 15 Million Japanese Civilians Killed
Between 8 and 13 Million Allied Troops Killed
They also estimated similar numbers of injured amongst the Allied ranks, but there was no estimate for injured Japanese.
They also had extensive plans for the defence of Tokyo, this included releasing up to 1500 Tons of Nerve Gas that they had accumulated over the years, they estimated this would inflict another 2 Million Civilian deaths, 4 Million Military deaths and 4 Million Allied Deaths.
Further, they had plans for Suicide Bombers, much like todays Arabs, they had already started to recruit and train children as young as 10 years old to undertake this task.
They had plans to drive a large number of vehicles flying White Flags into Allied Lines, then detonate explosives onboard and at the same time release Mustard Gas.
Plans had been set in place for underwater Kamikaze Mines. These would sit on the sea bed of likely landing beaches and harbours, when a ship passed over head, this man propelled "mine" would rise to the keel and detonate using 20 tons of HE, blowing the ship in half.
These are a few of the nasties they had planned, The Entire Nation intended to fight to the death. This is not the plans for a few screwed up individuals, or a group of misguided psychopaths, as in Germany, but plans of an Entire Nation to Die fighting a war they knew they could not win.
If it a fact that after the Japanese Surrender, an estimated 250,000 Military personnel and Civilians commited ritual suicide in shame..it is not shame, it is the action of a sick and twisted mindset that in endemic in the Japanese.
Remember people, when the Yanks finally took Okinawa, nearly 100,000 civilians residents commited suicide, the Civilian Populatioon in Japan was as much to blame as the Military, they KNEW full well how prisoners were treated, the KNEW full well how civilian populations in China, Manchuria, Korea, Vietnam (Indo-China), Burma, the Phillipines and Indonesai to name a few, had and were treated, and they did not object as they truly believed it was right as these people had been defeated. They treated their pets better than fellow humans were.
Lets not forget, to play devils advocate, the Japanese have a lot to answer for, but it is not the Jpas making a noise about the Bombs, but kiss arse Liberal idiots who KNOW NOTHING about what the Jpas really did, about the truth behiond the Pain still felt in many nations, including our own, by people mistreated by them.
Japan is still an open wound, and unless Japan is dealt with, it will start a war, and this will be the fault of the Japanese and their arrogant manner and the apologist liberals in the West.
Lets not foget, it was apologists that let Hitler rise to Power, and their bemoaning of the likes of Churchill that prevented any real action being taken to stop a War that ultimetly led to it...and that folly cost at least 100 Million lives, how many will the next one cost, and who gets the Bill...