Hiroshima--Facts?

Indeed! Protestors would have us believe we deliberately "incinerated" 100,000 people in Hiroshima without regard for the damage done, or the lives lost.

Being cruel people, we deliberately destroyed a city and left radiation within it's boundaries which contributed to the deaths of an additional 70,000 people.

Sounds terrible, doesn't it?

There's an old saying---"War is hell"! And now we, and the Japanese people, know what Hell is actually like!

You see, I remember well the 2nd World War. I remember who started it and how it was started! I also remember the treatment of our prisoners. We foolishly expected the Japanese to adhere to the Geneva Conventions, forgetting the Japanese were one of the countries who refused to sign the accords, thus declaring their intention of handling prisoners as THEY saw fit.
So they did.
The list of atrocities is long, beginning with the Bataan Death March, where Allied prisoners who had been marched for hours, or days, without food or drink were bayonetted when they fell out of line because of their weakness.

The list of atrocities in China were even longer and are available to any who care to look up the numbers.

But those were not all the reasons why we used the bomb at Hiroshima. No!
It was the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, while continuing negotiations in Washington.
It was the suicidal Kamikaze attacks on ships.
It was the resistance to the last man at Iwo Jima and Tarawa.
It was reports of the arming of the citizenry, with every indication that the Japanese would fight to the last man on their mainland---which they have admitted they would have done.
And, finally, It was the refusal to surrender unconditionally, which demand was made weeks and days before the Hiroshima bomb was dropped.

It would have cost 1 million lives if we had invaded Japan.
It would also have meant the total destruction of Japan, because, having air superiority over the mainland, we would have systematically destroyed ALL of the major cities through conventional bombings just as we did in Europe.
Remember, the allies had destroyed eight major cities in Germany, creating fire storms that raged for days, killing over 800,000 people! Where's the outrage over that?
Apparently it's OK to kill nearly 1 million people--as long as you do it by conventional methods!

Over 100,000 people died in the initial conventional bombing of Tokyo.
What would the loss have been if we had continued and destroyed the whole city?
--Or if we had continued and destroyed ALL major cities in Japan?
Does "1 million" sound familiar? Would it have approached 2 million? And all of this could have been accomplished BEFORE one American set foot on the mainland!

Assuming the forgoing had already happened, when the Marines and their Allies finally landed on the mainland, how many would have died, due to the fanaticism of the Japanese soldier? How many Japanese would have died, due to the materiel superiority of the Americans and their allies?

No, to complain about the dropping of the first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima, is to deny the reality of what war WOULD have been like WITHOUT the bomb!

Americans should never feel shame for ending a war that had already claimed more lives than any war in the history of the planet!

Think about this--Germany was within 6 months of developing an Atomic bomb, when the war ended.
Does ANYBODY think there would have been ANY hesitation about using the bomb on England, or the U.S.? We already have Hitler's words of impatience at the slowness of it's development.

The world should be grateful the United States developed the first Atomic bomb and USED it to END a devastating war!