A Professor at UC-Merced has published some new photos of Hiroshima, post A-bomb.
These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces. Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb. Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover Archives in 1998 with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008.
The HuffPo has published them, leading to another typical cycle of anti-American wailing and gnashing of teeth about the decision to save over a million lives while at the same time bringing an end to WWII.
The question should now be asked:
Which was worse? 9/11 or Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The 3,000 or so who perished at the World Trade Center were unarmed civilians. So were the hundreds of thousands who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The atomic bombing of Japan could not be described other than as a terroristic act. It was meant to terrorize the Japanese into submission. And it worked.
And everyone ganged up on Rev. Jeremiah Wright when he asserted that the American government was guilty of terrorism?
Now, we have the gruesomely graphic proofs for all Americans to see.
I suspect that the moderators will be shutting that thread as quickly as they do one involving Cheney.
The photos are graphic, so don’t be clicking these links at home in front of the kids.
I rather like it when the excrement, like this RFBorjal commenter, opens his/her mouth about this kind of thing. Honestly.
It makes them far clearer targets for the average citizen see, and when the time comes, these parasites will be eliminated.