[Peace-discuss] Truman and Hiroshima

[Brussel Morton K.]

We should not forget. Useful reminders by Ralph Raico:

http://original.antiwar.com/Ralph-2/2009/08/05/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/

"The most spectacular episode of Truman’s presidency will never be  
forgotten, but will be forever linked to his name: the atomic bombings  
of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and of Nagasaki three days later.  
Probably around two hundred thousand persons were killed in the  
attacks and through radiation poisoning; the vast majority were  
civilians, including several thousand Korean workers. Twelve U.S. Navy  
fliers incarcerated in a Hiroshima jail were also among the dead.…"

Raico concludes:

"Leo Szilard was the world-renowned physicist who drafted the original  
letter to Roosevelt that Einstein signed, instigating the Manhattan  
Project. In 1960, shortly before his death, Szilard stated another  
obvious truth:

If the Germans had dropped atomic bombs on cities instead of us, we  
would have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war  
crime, and we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this  
crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them.

The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime worse than  
any that Japanese generals were executed for in Tokyo and Manila. If  
Harry Truman was not a war criminal, then no one ever was."

Of course, Truman is only one noteworthy example of those "leaders"  
who take nations to war and are ready and willing to sacrifice  
innocents.  They are with us today, and may rightly be called war  
criminals. --mkb
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