[ RadSafe ] ( NY Times) - Observation of Moment of Silence

[howard long]

10,000,000 Japanese and 1,000,000 American troops would likely have died without the Hiroshima, Nagasaki ~120,000 deaths from atomic bomb demonstration, according to official estimates and bloody experience island-hopping smaller islands, like Iwo Jima.
   
  Likewise, today, Saddam was murdering 100/day (>300,000 found in mass graves). 
  Read "Hell Is Over : the Kurds -" 
   
  So the Iraqi deaths now (~ 30/d average and 2 Americans), 
  save an expected >100,000 USA city deaths from the tons of sarin 
  (which Sada says was smuggled into Syria while US forces gathered), 
  or anthrax (less evidence) or nuclear device (Duelfer Report confirms progress while UN inspectors were deceived, then ejected).
   
  Taking the offense has saved many lives in Japan and in Iraq and in the USA.
  Take this moment of silence to give thanks to leaders like Truman and Bush, who have prevented so many deaths. 
  (This is my personal opinion, not necessarily that of any organization.)
   
  Howard Long MD
  
"Mercado, Don" <don.mercado at lmco.com> wrote:
  The bombings were not a crime. They were an act of self defense. Japan attacked us first. We just ended it.

DPM

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From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of Peter Bossew
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 7:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] RE: [AMRSO] On This Day( NY Times) - Observation of Moment of Silence

One crime does not justify another.

pb




Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS) [E] wrote:
> Should we offer a moment of silence for all those Chinese and Asian
> civilians killed by the Japanese?
> 
>
> -- John
> John P. Jacobus, MS, CHP
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> From: Johnston, Thomas [mailto:Tom_Johnston at nymc.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:55 AM
> To: Academic-Medical Radiation Safety Officers listserve;
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> Subject: [AMRSO] On This Day( NY Times) - Observation of Moment
> of Silence
> 
> 
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> 
>
> On This Day - NY Times
>
> On Aug. 9, 1945, the United States exploded a nuclear device
> over Nagasaki, Japan, instantly killing an estimated 39,000 people. 
>
> The explosion came three days after the atomic bombing of
> Hiroshima.
>
> 
>
> May we all observe a moment of silence.
>
> 
>
> Tom
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> 
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