Conquer Club

thegreekdog wrote:I do wonder what the casualty count would have been had Truman not authorized the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (US and Japanese).

Certainly would have included a higher percentage of casualties to soldiers rather than civilians than what really happened, but considering the disregard the Japanese gave those civilians caught up in the battles on Pelielu, Okinawa and others, it's distinctly possible the total civilian casualties would have been just as high.

At least, that's what one of the professors I had posited.


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Also, Dr. Mengele wasn't a war hero, or a general, or anything other than a mad scientist with the ability to act with no restraint.

the.killing.44 wrote:

bedub1 wrote:I don't support any of these people. I just like to point out that a coin has 2 sides. The Allies view Harry Truman as a war hero that ended the war. The Japanese view Harry Truman as a war criminal who slaughtered a bunch of civilians. Well, I don't know how the Japanese view Harry...but can't you see that there are two sides, both equally accurate?

Yeah, I understand. I'm not sure if you can say "both equally accurate," because committing medical "experiments" on people is not the same as dropping a weapon of mass destruction on a country during a war. It's just so … odd that someone who has said that Mengele is a terrible person would make the name his username on the site, and insist that he chose it because he shouldn't "take the user name of little bo peep in a war game[.]"

so ok, serious question, would you have had any problem if i had taken the user name, Nurse Eunice Rivers

thegreekdog wrote:I do wonder what the casualty count would have been had Truman not authorized the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (US and Japanese).

And don't forget the Soviets.

BigBallinStalin wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:I do wonder what the casualty count would have been had Truman not authorized the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (US and Japanese).

And don't forget the Soviets.

And the Brits (bloody Yanks).

thegreekdog wrote:

BigBallinStalin wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:I do wonder what the casualty count would have been had Truman not authorized the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (US and Japanese).

And don't forget the Soviets.

And the Brits (bloody Yanks).

And the Canucks with their 1 destroyer and 2 infantry divisions (THANKS, GUYS, BIG HELP ON THAT ONE).

BigBallinStalin wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:

BigBallinStalin wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:I do wonder what the casualty count would have been had Truman not authorized the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (US and Japanese).

And don't forget the Soviets.

And the Brits (bloody Yanks).

And the Canucks with their 1 destroyer and 2 infantry divisions (THANKS, GUYS, BIG HELP ON THAT ONE).

And the Australians with their kangaroos and boomerangs.

Dr Mengele wrote:

the.killing.44 wrote:

bedub1 wrote:I don't support any of these people. I just like to point out that a coin has 2 sides. The Allies view Harry Truman as a war hero that ended the war. The Japanese view Harry Truman as a war criminal who slaughtered a bunch of civilians. Well, I don't know how the Japanese view Harry...but can't you see that there are two sides, both equally accurate?

Yeah, I understand. I'm not sure if you can say "both equally accurate," because committing medical "experiments" on people is not the same as dropping a weapon of mass destruction on a country during a war. It's just so … odd that someone who has said that Mengele is a terrible person would make the name his username on the site, and insist that he chose it because he shouldn't "take the user name of little bo peep in a war game[.]"

so ok, serious question, would you have had any problem if i had taken the user name, Nurse Eunice Rivers

Was she the sick mind behind terrible events in medical experiments?

she was the sole person involved with the Tuskegee experiments for the 40 year duration

Dr Mengele wrote:

the.killing.44 wrote:

bedub1 wrote:I don't support any of these people. I just like to point out that a coin has 2 sides. The Allies view Harry Truman as a war hero that ended the war. The Japanese view Harry Truman as a war criminal who slaughtered a bunch of civilians. Well, I don't know how the Japanese view Harry...but can't you see that there are two sides, both equally accurate?

Yeah, I understand. I'm not sure if you can say "both equally accurate," because committing medical "experiments" on people is not the same as dropping a weapon of mass destruction on a country during a war. It's just so … odd that someone who has said that Mengele is a terrible person would make the name his username on the site, and insist that he chose it because he shouldn't "take the user name of little bo peep in a war game[.]"

so ok, serious question, would you have had any problem if i had taken the user name, Nurse Eunice Rivers

Was she hot?!

well if that matters mengele was a hansom man

BigBallinStalin wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:

BigBallinStalin wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:I do wonder what the casualty count would have been had Truman not authorized the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (US and Japanese).

And don't forget the Soviets.

And the Brits (bloody Yanks).

And the Canucks with their 1 destroyer and 2 infantry divisions (THANKS, GUYS, BIG HELP ON THAT ONE).

I hope you're kidding. Otherwise people might think you were severely misinformed.