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Friday, 23. April 2004
Co-pilot of H-bomb Nagasaki dead
bastard
12:21h
Fred Olivi, the co-pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki , has died. He was 82. Olivi was one of many veterans angered by an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution for the 50th anniversary of the bombings. "It's slanted more in sympathy to the Japanese than it is to us," he said in a 1994 interview. Ehm... 70'000 people died in an instance... another 70'000 died due to radiation (a slow and painful death where your skin falls off and organs, one after the other, shut down...). A 22 kiloton PLUTONIUM!!! bomb was dropped on a civilian population (the real target was covered with clouds and thus could not be attacked). Combined with Hiroshima over a third of a million civilians died. The US is the only nation which has ever used the so called weapons of mass destruction! They used it a few weeks after they had developed it. Thats what i call Trigger Happy!!! Did Fred want a medal for his actions? Did he want the world to be proud? ... Comment
bmacd, 4/23/04, 1:15 PM
They were obeying orders
Do not hold them responsible for following orders from those in charge. In reality the responsible people were those that gave the command to bomb - the Commander in Chief. ... Link
bastard, 4/23/04, 1:57 PM
I give you that that they were obeying orders, but i don't think that you should be proud of having killed over 140'000 people... Orders are orders, feelings are personal and irrespective of orders. You can have an order to kill children and you have to do it but that does not mean that you have to be proud about it. This is an example of what he did, i for one would not be proud of it. A small child probably playing in the streets when.... ... Link
bmacd, 4/23/04, 2:56 PM
I agree you should not necessarily be proud of it, but the quotes above do not say anything about him being proud of it, they are simply complaining that it is more biased toward the Japanese without showing the US 'point-of-view'. I'm not denying that it was a terrible thing to have done, but the world might be a very different place today if the US had not done what they did. ... Link
bastard, 4/23/04, 7:43 PM
Lets see, we would have had a racist government who invades countries to enhance their resources, no democracy as what the leaders say will be enforced irrespective of what is right or wrong. A rule which tries to get as many allies as possible to invade other countries and will discriminate or even invade the ones which do not. A leadership with no respect to human life or freedom (that is freedom of speach, movement etc)... You are right - it was good that they dropped the bomb. Otherwise we would have had to put up with the above now... ... Link ... Comment |
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