I can't stomach listening to one word Stewert has to stay...maybe later...we all know what leftist, agenda-filled, whiz-bang he is....nothing like undeserved attention...that he always craves.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

If we had people like Jon Leibovitz running things back in 1945, most of us would be speaking German and his descendants wouldn't even exist.  And the governor of Alaska would be a Japanese guy. 

Clearly, this guy doesn't know or understand history.  Dropping those bombs saved an untold number of lives (versus an invasion of Japan) and demonstrated such horror that nobody else has done it in the past 64 years - even though many could have.  

What's scary is how many generation Y dingbats get their news from this clown.

Because everyone knows it's far more humane to kill people from regular fire instead of nuclear fire, to rip their flesh from little bits of metal flying at high speeds instead of instantly incinerating them, or cause massive trauma from multiple concussion explosions instead of one big one. 

Yes, bayonetting or shooting them or bashing them over the heads with rifle butts is imminently more sanitary to the horrors of a nuclear bomb. 

Lying awake screaming and dying from wounds received from more traditional death dealing devices is more preferable to lying awake screaming and dying from wounds received from a nuclear blast. 

What were we thinking?

From a piece posted at Common Dreams:

One of the most devastating attacks ever directed at civilians by the U.S. government--an event few remember-- occurred sixty years ago this week. On the nights of March 9th and 10th, 1945, some 334 B-29 bombers dropped 1,665 tons of napalm-filled bombs on the densely-populated city of Tokyo. Over 100,000 people were killed in the ensuing firestorm--more casualties than in the atomic bombs dropped on either Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Sixteen square miles of urban neighborhoods--constructed of wood and populated largely by civilians--were completely incinerated, leaving homeless nearly 1.15 million survivors. As justification for this attack, historians cite the military's strategy to destroy civilian morale as well as household manufacturing units supporting Japan's war effort.

Naturally, President Roosevelt is not mentioned in the piece.

And for Stewart, and the rest of that "blame America first" crowd, the atomic bomb was developed under the direction of FDR. Truman didn't know of the program, until after he became president. Does anyone question that FDR would not have used the bomb?

Had FDR lived a bit longer, would the left be so quick to paint him in this same aura of darkness? I think not.

If we want to focus on the horrors of the era, then let's keep the focus on the horrors perpetrated by the Japanese on human civilization. From the hundreds of thousands the Japanese murdered (pure genocide) in China, to the horrific treatment of POW's to this story in today's news, South Korea's wartime sex slaves: Hoping for closure at the end of their lives -  the issue of using the bomb is an interesting discussion - nothing more; the issue of historical importance is the sickness of the Japanese Imperialistic Empire - and what they dished out on humanity.

The progressive documentary film producer and director, Ken Burns, in his recent massive project on  WWII,  had something to offer to the Stewarts of the world. Burns, in reflecting back on the year's long effort in making the documentary, expressed that when he began, he assumed that when he got to the end of the story and presented the twin atomic bombings that it would be in the light of how Stewart sees it, however, after living with the survivors of the war, in the Pacific and elsewhere, and hearing and experiencing the terror that we were confronted with, and what our troops were confronted with, that by the time he got to the end of the project, he realized that he was in no position to judge the decisions that others were forced to make some 60 years before his time.

Some people grow up - others never do.

gary

Two words come to mind,  blithering and fool. I think he's trying to out self-embarrass Odormann. Some people should not be allowed in front of a camera

Why stop at Truman, (should be FDR), their are many more real and alledged war crimes commited throughout American history, heck the world for that matter. Besides as others here have pointed out if the bomb had not been droped how many people would have died. Stewart is and idiot!

For a nice little anger inducing experience, visit the peace park museum in Hiroshima sometime.  You'll have a difficult time finding the cause for the events leading up to the bombing and when you do, it's a simple paragraph in a very inconspicuous place among the rest of the not-so-thinly veiled implied criticism of the U.S. decision to use the weapons.  You'd think the decision was made in a vacuum. 

It's highlighted by the ironic fact that Hiroshima is a very large and prosperous modern Japanese city that has directly benefitted from American aid since the end of WWII and a strong American presence in the region ever since.

I was livid when I walked out.

Where, my man Bal to defend cable television's brightest mind?

 64 years ago I was a young man--a Marine--who was fighting on Okinawa. My squad was kia/mia in just a few days of fighting--fighting that still torments my dreams all these years latter. At the end of the battle--I saw Japanese civilians jump to their deaths rather then risk surrender to us. All of us who survived Iwo and Okinawa knew we were living on borrowed time if we had to invade the home Islands of Japan. President Truman saved our lives by dropping the bomb. All of us who would have been in the assault boats in the fall of 1945 were spared an early death by the wisdom of Harry S.Truman .I was able to come home-go to school--make something of myself--marry a woman I loved from the second we met,till the day she left this life--have a family that I could not love more or be prouder of.I've lived long enough to comb grey hair--and all thanks to President Truman--God rest his soul.

 Jon Stewart never spent a second in an assault boat, never saw what a well placed Jap 60 mm could do to a pal, never crossed open ground under fire to save a pal--in short he never put his life on the line--President Truman did--and by doing so he saved my life and untold millions of other lives. War criminal--how the hell would a self absorbed little schmuck like Stewart know the first thing about war.

  The problem Stewert and other obamaphiles have is they have to redefine what a dominant male is so that obama doesn't look like the lightweight that he is.  One way to do this is to 'criminalize' anything more aggressive than what little barry is able to do.  Obama is the Pee Wee Herman of American Presidents.

I cannot get over this story.  When I think of all the atrocities committed by the Japanese during WWII, the atomic bombs were mild.  The men, women, and children of China were brutally killed, women raped until they died, as well as little girls.  Japanese soldiers fired directly upon medics to increase enemy losses and dedmoralize Americans.  There was the Bataan Death March, the torture of prisoners, and the total disregard for human life.  Other countries would have made Japan suffer a hell of a lot more than two atomic bombs. 

Lastly, we were at war.  War is breaking things and killing people.  The good guys won so the stupid guys like Stewart could live well. 

I wonder if snarky Jon Stewart knows anything about Unit 731, the Japanese army medical research unit that carried out germ warfare and surgery experiments on both civilian and military prisoners.

Here is some testimony from a Japanese farmer who got conscripted into this unit. Now, imagine if you will that the prisoner is Jon Stewart:

"I cut him open from the chest to the stomach and he screamed terribly
and his face was all twisted in agony. He made this unimaginable sound, he
was screaming so horribly. But then finally he stopped. This was all in a
day's work for the surgeons, but it really left an impression on me because
it was my first time."

Yeah. Uh, huh. I totally agree that Truman is a War Criminal.

Sorry, but I have always despised this piece of trash, Stewart, just as much as Bill Maher or Olbermann.  The three of them should visit Somalia in a boat.

Someone needs to remind Steward that Truman was a Democrat.

STEWART: "I think if you dropped
an atom bomb fifteen miles offshore..."

We did something like that you maroon, It was called Hiroshima and they still didn't surrender. After Nagasaki they realized it was only a matter of time before Toyko and their emperor would have ended up as fused glass. I guess he's never read anything about Olympic or Coronet or read anything about the battle of Okinawa. Just how many Japanese citizens would have died if we had invaded instead?

Did anyone on the left ever take Science, Math, History or Economics in school? They leave me doubting every day.

You need to study your history before you talk.

For BO and his followers, all history started with BO's election.

Maybe MSNBC can hire this guy next.

I love to help the helpless but I'm not gonna help the clueless   ~Dennis Miller

Well we are talking about a guy who lacks the personal charcter to use his REAL name, maybe because he is ashamed of who his parents were..in any case it shows a total lack of moral fiber and character that a person would sell out his own family, so he could become rich in...hollywood...pathetic John Lebowitz..aka "stewart".  If he was my kid i would disown the materialistic creep. Come to think about it, maybe my view of abortion is wrong...in thgis case.  PS my uncle was killed by the Japanese, so John can stick it up his phony arse! 

JON-BOY: Here's what I think of the atom bombs. I think if you dropped an atom bomb fifteen miles offshore and you said, 'The next one's coming and hitting you', then I would think it's okay.

PRES. TRUMAN: Well, gosh, why didn't I or any of my military advisors think of that?!!  Your an F-ing genius, Jon.  But don't you think that PETA might then come with a law suit -- just think of all that beautiful aquatic life, the sea horses, the dolphins, the humpback whales, the plankton....

JON-BOY: Pysch!  I'm just a comedian!  I really think we should just end this charade, surrender and, like, just get stoned.  Peace out dude.  <audience laugh track>

Give Jon-boy credit, though -- Truman was Democrat.

"Let's wrap him up, alright?" -- Keith Olbermann

Stewart just retracted saying Truman was a war criminal. He basically said that, in reflection, it was a stupid thing to say.I know no one here will care, but just thought I'd share that.

http://www.weeklysta...

So Stewart(his professional name)thinks liberal Truman was a criminal for dropping 2 atomic bombs on Japan, who attacked us, who we had been fighting since 12-07-41, who had vowed, because of their belief system to fight to the death to protect their homeland,evidence of which we experienced on Iwo Jima and Okinowa, where it was estimated we would iccur an additional 1,000,000 casualities for an already war weary nation, could have been his father or grandfather,says 64 years later in no context whatsoever other than being a parrot for the assholes who richly benefit from our freedoms and attack anyone who is willing to do the sometimes nasty shit to preserve it. Grow up little boy, grow up.

...if Truman's not a war criminal anymore for nuking hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians, even after losing FEWER US lives in the Pearl Harbor attacks than on 9/11, and even though, as they claim, the war was basically 'won'...

...then how come the Bush Administration ARE 'war criminals' for waterboarding THREE terrorists, thus gathering key intelligence that saved thousands of lives?

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I don't understand the moralizing over using nuclear bombs.

There sure as hell wasn't any moralizing over anything else in that theater...on either side.

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