Homework Promotes Anti-American View of World War Two

[ironsniper1]

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/homework-promotes-anti-american-view-of-world-war-two.html speechless

[Mike.357]

hell, we should'a dropped another one just for good measure.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Just so those revisionist fools know, it was a Democrat who ordered the bombs dropped. Squirm a

little more you fools. When you try to re-write history, especially that recent, you might find there

are a lot of folks to undermind your crap.

[RED333]

Commiecrap Core at work!!!

[RichardR]

Our children are no longer being educated, they are being indoctrunated.

[RED333]

Our children are no longer being educated, they are being indoctrunated.

Shame aint it, Please home school your kids.

[RichardR]

Shame aint it, Please home school your kids.

It's criminal IMHO.

[hipower]

Revisionist history will be(is) the death of the school system.

[TMF]

Just so those revisionist fools know, it was a Democrat who ordered the bombs dropped. Squirm a
little more you fools. When you try to re-write history, especially that recent, you might find there
are a lot of folks to undermind your crap.

I was watching The View months back (I know) and Joy Behar made a comment about Republicans being historically racist going back "hundreds" of years. Nobody corrected her on which party abolished slavery and which opposed the abolition of such. If you asked the average American which party housed the abolitionist movement they'd say the Democrats.

[JWC]

I would have had my kids write in one of the blanks:
"Jap soldiers carried Chinese babies on their bayonets and killed a million Chinese in a month. And dear teacher my daddy says we shouldn't have nuked em at all, we should've continued fire bombing their cities and burning them all alive in their paper houses for what they did to Americans at Bataan. Peace" Edited April 24, 2013 by JWC

[Guest Cami]

It just gets worse and worse.  Don't they realize there are way too many of us who know better.  It wouldn't be pretty if my kid brought that trash home...

[Guest 6.8 AR]

I was watching The View months back (I know) and Joy Behar made a comment about Republicans being historically racist going back "hundreds" of years. Nobody corrected her on which party abolished slavery and which opposed the abolition of such. If you asked the average American which party housed the abolitionist movement they'd say the Democrats.

She doesn't care how blatant the lie is. I've heard her say some whoppers, also.

[Hi Point Hooligan]

Really??? I think it works like this.. You attack us, and you receive a complimentary bomb with no cost to you. Yes the Atomic bomb was/is a terrible weapon. But it saved more lives than it took. If the war were to keep going who knows how many people would have been killed.

 

And the poor Japanese, I don’t buy it.. They got exactly what they deserved. If they had not attacked the USA we would have not bombed them. End of story.. 

[LagerHead]

I was watching The View months back (I know) and Joy Behar made a comment about Republicans being historically racist going back "hundreds" of years. Nobody corrected her on which party abolished slavery and which opposed the abolition of such. If you asked the average American which party housed the abolitionist movement they'd say the Democrats.

 

Ummm, why were you watching The View?  :puke:

[TMF]

Ummm, why were you watching The View? :puke:

My wife watches it. I do enjoy looking at Liz Hasselbeck's legs though.

[E4 No More]

My wife watches it. I do enjoy looking at Liz Hasselbeck's legs though.

Um, ya, sure!

 

Anyway, why would anyone be surprised by this today? This kind of crap has been happening for years.

[Glenn]

Really??? I think it works like this.. You attack us, and you receive a complimentary bomb with no cost to you. Yes the Atomic bomb was/is a terrible weapon. But it saved more lives than it took. If the war were to keep going who knows how many people would have been killed.

 

And the poor Japanese, I don’t buy it.. They got exactly what they deserved. If they had not attacked the USA we would have not bombed them. End of story.. 

I have read estimates of up to 500,000 men would have been lost invading Japan. My father was in the Coast Guard in WW II but they were preparing for the invasion. 

[E4 No More]

I have read estimates of up to 500,000 men would have been lost invading Japan. My father was in the Coast Guard in WW II but they were preparing for the invasion. 

Not to mention the amount of Japanese civilians that would have been killed. I remember figures reaching a million, but who really knows?

[safeandsecure]

I know the "lives saved" argument was made, then, too.  But to me, that's not the only reason: Attack us, prepare to be paid back 100-fold.

 

And again, America didn't START the war.  But it sure ENDED it.  Maybe we need leaders willing to make the tough decisions today.  Maybe?

 

And as far as our educational system goes ... well, it doesn't go where it needs to go.  Twisting the truth is no better than a lie.

[Garufa]

Not to mention the amount of Japanese civilians that would have been killed. I remember figures reaching a million, but who really knows?

 

I'm pretty the US was not concerned with Japanese civilian deaths in 1945.  We had already killed at least a million just through conventional bombing.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

My wife watches it. I do enjoy looking at Liz Hasselbeck's legs though.

Did he really need to ask? :D

[JR2ATN]

FWIW, the best book I've read on the topic is Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire by Richard B. Frank  http://amzn.to/ZKc4pI

 

He has another book about Guadalcanal which is also outstanding.

 

[leroy]

As other posters have opined, i think it's interesting that the "history revisionist intellegencia" hates european-american technology and political decisionmaking so much (...the a bomb and it's use...); and overlooks this other little uniquely japanese scientific study and military actions called biological warfare and it's experimental use on captured chinese peoples.  Google "Japanese Army Unit 731" and do a bit of selective reading.  Anyone with a shred of empathy for his fellow man will wonder just as mike did why we didnt drop another bomb for good measure.   Japanese Unit 731 used mainland china as their laboratory and humans as lab subjects.

 

They (...the japanese army...) were as barbaric and monstrous as Joseph Mengele (...who everybody knows about...).  They were also very much more successful.  The commander of unit 731 is, in fact, the "father of biological warfare".  It is rumored that he traded research results and notes to the allies for amnesty.   It is srongly suspected (...and i believe it is true...) that the US biological weapons program has its genesis from these heinous monsters. 

 

We need to submit this one to the "revisionist history review board" for review and inclusion in their syllabus.  I bet they wont be intested in this little bit of history.  It doesnt fit the narrative of white capitalist oppression against the poor, defenseless yellow man via the demonic, extremely white atomic bomb.

 

atomic leroy,

amateur historian

Edited April 25, 2013 by leroy

[E4 No More]

I'm pretty the US was not concerned with Japanese civilian deaths in 1945.  We had already killed at least a million just through conventional bombing.

I have seen it reported that they were concerned with it. Whether it was BS given to try and make some people have warm-fuzzies about dropping the bombs we'll likely never know for sure.

 

Some have argued that dropping the bombs is not what got Japan to surrender, but that it was the Russians crossing into China that got them to surrender. Japan and Russia have a pretty contentious history.

[Titansfan]

Fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa proved that the Japanese would fight almost to the last man.  Atomic bombing was necessary and my reflection, not only did it save American lives, it saved Japanese lives as well.