Tom Ritchford
May 27, 2022

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I would generally agree with your speech, and I do consider that dropping the atom bomb was a war crime, BUT we are talking about literally Hitler here: literal, proud Fascists were trying to conquer the entire world.

They, the Fascists, started the war; they were exterminating whole races of humanity in great killing machines.

Read about the Rape of Nanjing sometime - Japan and its soldiers deliberately commiting the most incredible atrocities against civilians, just to horrify their enemies.

I might also add that at the moment the bomb fell, my grandfather was in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, so it's personal.

Fascism had to be defeated. The West didn't start the fight, but it had to be finished, or we were finished.

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