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| Uncle Joe and The Bomb | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 22 2015, 05:43 PM (152 Views) | |
| Jolly | May 22 2015, 05:43 PM Post #1 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/ |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Mikhailoh | May 23 2015, 04:17 AM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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A bit revisionist, but I'm sure the Soviets had a lot to do with it. I suspect the Japanese knew it was over when Russians made it to Berlin. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Copper | May 23 2015, 05:01 AM Post #3 |
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Shortstop
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70 years later everything is looks different. Dropping those bombs has had a lasting effect on so many things since then it's impossible to speculate how things would be now if they hadn't been used. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Mikhailoh | May 23 2015, 05:55 AM Post #4 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Indeed. To call Hiroshima and Nagasaki moral wrongs in the context of Japan's savagery over 14 years of war, or even our conventional firebombing of Japan, is ludicrous. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| John D'Oh | May 23 2015, 06:28 AM Post #5 |
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MAMIL
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No bias there, then. |
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