JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICA’S UNFORGIVABLE ATOMIC BOMBING OF JAPAN – THE COUNTRY WAS READY TO SURRENDER BUT THEY WERE BOMBED ANYWAY – AMERICA WANTED TO DEMONSTRATE ITS POWER AND RUTHLESSNESS AS IT ENTERED ITS GOLDEN AGE OF “THE AMERICAN DREAM” – NOTE ON TRUMAN’S COLD-BLOODEDNESS, MUCH RESEMBLING THAT OF OBAMA – AND TODAY WE HAVE RECKLESS, MALICIOUS RHETORIC BEING HURLED TOWARDS ANOTHER “YELLOW PEOPLE,” THE PEOPLE OF CHINA

John Chuckman


COMMENT ON A VIDEO DISCUSSION IN CONSORTIUM NEWS


“ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 75: Scholars Speak Out Against ‘Unnecessary’ Attacks”


Just the simple truth. Japan had sent out feelers about surrendering. Keeping the Emperor was their only condition.

But America's government insisted on "unconditional surrender." Complete humiliation.

There was a series of atomic bombings planned. I believe the number was a dozen for the number of bombs available.

You need to keep in mind, too, that Japan had already been horrifically bombed by General Curtis LeMay, a certifiable psychopath.

Massive bombings and fire-storm bombings.

It was said at one point before the atomic attack, that there were literally no primary or secondary targets left standing in Japan.

Hiroshima was of no military or strategic value.

The bombing was pure terror against civilians.

I remember reading that Eisenhower, a military man of some decency, was ashamed of it.

So that is the way America chose to enter its golden era, the time of “the American Dream.”

History is indeed biography because, just maybe, if Roosevelt hadn’t changed his Vice-presidential candidate for his fourth term, there might have been some resistance to this war crime from Henry Wallace. But not with Truman, a cold-blooded man just like Obama, good at killing. North Korea also was treated to massive carpet bombing in the early 1950s and had one-fifth of its entire population destroyed.

Many believe that the atomic bombing was actually intended as a demonstration for Stalin of America’s power and ruthlessness, a consideration that makes it even more reprehensible, using huge numbers of “yellow people” as lab rats in a large-scale experiment and demonstration.

And perhaps we should be very mindful of the kind of malicious language and hostile tactics now being used against China by American officials. It comes at a time when America has spent great sums updating its arsenal with new “more usable” nuclear weapons.