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Lets look at the American atrocities on Japan


In 1946, the Manhattan Engineer District published a study that concluded that 66,000 people were killed at Hiroshima out of a population of 255,000.
The Committee for the Compilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki estimated in 1978 that 346,000-356,000 people were present in Hiroshima at the time of the bombings, with fatalities of "some 200,000".
Casualty estimates for immediate deaths in Hiroshima range from 40,000 to 75,000. Total deaths by the end of 1945 may have reached 80,000.

Japan on the other hand, Pearl Harbor: The assault, which lasted less than two hours, claimed the lives of more than 2,500 people. WTF

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Your figures are correct, and no one would celebrate those things, but the Japanese did some horrific things during the war, to POWs, among others. My grandfather was captured by the Japanese when he was a young teen. He was Chinese, and he told my family some of things that were done to him, and others. He never would tell us everything because it was too awful.


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Lesson for today, children;
Don't kick the big kid. Payback is a bitch.

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Your point? Would you have preferred another 100,000+ US casualties invading mainland Japan to stop them? Unfortunately it was the only alternative to bring the war with Japan to a quick conclusion. Also those "atrocities" were long after Japan murdered half a million Chinese and killed,starved thousands of Allied prisoners of war,so I think that might have had some input on the decision. Know your history moron!

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And they still continue that "we don't care about international law"-policy.

Japan murders hundreds of whales every year inspite there is a international law that prohibits whale hunting.

They simply don't care about international agreements.

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Imagine how I feel about that. Japanese fishermen killing whales on chilean waters, so unfair! Whales shouldn't be killed, never!... I'm no nationalist, no patriot, but I know how my people (all my people, wherever they come from) has suffered.
I can't hate japanese people, as I can't hate the chilean people. People is not "guilty", the ones in power are the guilty ones. Both in Chile and in Japan. I hate everyone related to the military dictatorship in Chile, as much as I hate everyone related to the atrocities commited in (and by) Japan in War time (which costed million innocent japanese lives).

We can somewhat forgive, but we will never, ever forget August 6 and 9, 1945 and September 11, 1972. What the powerfull people of USA did to the innocent people of my ancestry and descent.

Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language.

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How about we never find a way to justify cruel and inhumane behavior on anyone's behalf.
Always a most ridiculous argument and one that keeps the ball rolling for so many wars and for terrorists and all cruelties...The cradle of civilization sins of the fathers mumbo jumbo. Who is it that should feel responsible for the sins of the father or the grandfather and beyond? No one can affect the past without a time machine.

"What so and so did to me was wrong so I'll be more wrong and do it back 10 times over." How simplistic.
If something is wrong it remains wrong . There's no justification. If you don't approve of your enemy doing it than don't do it yourself. Why become what you hate?
There's a difference between fighting back and defending oneself ...and just being a sadist for the sake of being a sadist..

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And prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor they had already invaded China and other parts of Asia, during which time they killed millions... not thousands but millions of civilians... So don't go on spouting statistics unless you are willing to really look at them... you just sound like a stupid troll.

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That's how you measure, Fnm? By the numbers? I'll play. Japan was Germany's ally, and Germany killed six million Jews in their concentration camps. Going by the numbers, Japan was much worse. Not that any of this has anything to do with the movie. A keyboard coward like you won't get this, but the movie is about a heroic man who survived a nightmarish prison camp. You probably wouldn't last a day in that camp, since the bravest thing you do is hide behind your keyboard and sling mud at war heros, but Louis Zamperini came out with his mind and his spirit intact.

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That is a very poor example to try to attack OP.
I have close relatives who survived torture camps in Latinamerica during right-wing military dictatorship, sponsored by Nixon and the CIA. It's all being disclosed.
I have the feeling the USA has killed much more innocent people during his short existence tha Japan. (I don't know much about Germany, except what we all know about WWI and WWII).

I suggest you to try to take the great Loui Zamperini example.

Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language.

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"I have a feeling"...and that's all you're really going on. Enough said. Move along, folks. Nothing to see here.

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I don't feel like counting how many people were murdered under military dictatorships in Latinameerica, sponsored and supported by USA, and of course I don't have the number of how many immigrants where killed during the early years of USA, neither how many innocent people has been murdered in Palestina by the Israeli soldiers, sponsored ans supported strongly by USA, neither how many middle east innocents has been killed since the Gulf War or even earlier, because of the greedy oil businessmen, or in Africa, much less WWI, Korea, Vietnam, WWII, etc. And let's not forget native northamericans.

It's like writing a thesis on a foreign country's murders. I really don't feel like doing it.

Maybe USA's murders overall matches the death toll of Japan's island since year 500 BC.

Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language.

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Tell that to the Chinese. If you were LUCKY they would laugh in your face at your ignorance. From 1937 to 1945 the Japanese killed at least 10 million Chinese. Some estimates hold the number to be as high as 30 million. No one will ever know for sure. And that's just the CHINESE. If you think the USA has killed that many people, you are a child.

As you've confessed, since you really don't want to do the research, you really don't know what you're talking about.

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It's about 10 million since 1945, excluding indirect murder by famine and pestilence

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