Daily Show calls Truman a war criminal

[CFH]

I was gonna say, if anyone is looking for the reasons why he might be called a war criminal, then targeting hundreds of thousands of civilians might be one. But people can use whatever words they want to describe that.

We didn't want to have to drop the bombs and we certainly gave them the option of us not doing it.

But riddle me this, what would have happened had we tried to win the war without the bombs I mean we had to drop TWO on them for them to even consider surrendering. The United States lost 354,523 (106,207 killed/248,316 wounded or MIA) men in the Pacific theater and we lost over 6,000 men just taking Iwo Jima! Over 7,000 were killed in Guadalcanal! Over 12,000 were killed in taking Okinawa! ....so how the hell do you think taking Japan proper would have gone?

I guess the main question I am asking you is would the death toll be higher or lower than the 80,000 (45,000-75,000 immediate deaths) total speculated deaths caused by the two bombings?

Because I KNOW the death toll would have been much higher than just 80,000. The Death toll had the US invaded Japan would have been 2-4 times higher than the 80,000 that died on account of the bombs and everyone else seems to know that and aknowledge that except for you.

So tell me Mr. Butterflies and Rainbows, how else were we to end the war with Japan and have FEWER casualties?

And also were there not civilian casualties in England from the bombing? Germany? USSR? China? and even the in US from Pearl Harbor?


Must be nice being from the great Vanilla country of Canada who does nothing wrong because they do NOTHING at all

I'm starting to get seriously tired of these kinds of statements.

How does his nationality make his opinion less valid? And before you say it bothers me because I am a Canadian - I don't give a flying fuck about my country and I would be absolutely fine if it broke up and disappeared completely.

Nationality does not inform the value of an individuals opinion and I can never understand why you're so focused on it. I know, I know, it's all in jest, right? It's ridiculous though, you're like a goddamn caricature. You just repeat the same things over and over again as if your belligerence somehow adds validity to your opinions and it makes it hard to take much of what you say seriously.

He never said anything bad or controversial, yet you jump all over him because it has to do with one of your Presidents. All he was doing was presenting a difference view of war in general, a valid one held by many people, and he never once said he subscribed to it.

I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but it's annoying to have to read the same rhetoric ad nauseam, and it makes it very difficult for legitimate discussion to take place because it frustrates and alienates people very quickly.

"Nationalism is a psychopathic, pernicious form of idiocy."

[Youngblood]

lol i can't be sure, but I think Lyle just got called a honky.

[boozeboxer]

Truman was probably the greatest leader we have ever had.