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Presidential Immunity?

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by KenH, Apr 25, 2024.

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  1. KenH

    KenH Well-Known Member

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    And Tokyo even more so.

    "On the night of March 9, 1945, U.S. warplanes launch a new bombing offensive against Japan, dropping 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo over the course of the next 48 hours. Almost 16 square miles in and around the Japanese capital were incinerated, and between 80,000 and 130,000 Japanese civilians were killed in the worst single firestorm in recorded history.
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    Three hundred and thirty-four bombers, flying at a mere 500 feet, dropped their loads, creating a giant bonfire fanned by 30-knot winds that helped raze Shitamachi and spread the flames throughout Tokyo. Masses of panicked and terrified Japanese civilians scrambled to escape the inferno, most unsuccessfully. The human carnage was so great that the blood-red mists and stench of burning flesh that wafted up sickened the bomber pilots, forcing them to grab oxygen masks to keep from vomiting."

    - rest at Firebombing of Tokyo | March 9, 1945 | HISTORY
     
    #61 KenH, Jun 1, 2024
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    And five years later we did it to the entire Korean peninsula because we wouldn't let LeMay drop a handful of atomic bombs on the border with China.
     
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    Thankfully, God is absolutely, totally sovereign.
     
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    "So we went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea, too. We even burned down Pusan-an accident, but we burned it down anyway. The Marines started a battle down there with no enemy in sight. Over a period of three years or so, we killed off-what-twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure? Over a period of three years, this seemed to be acceptable to everybody, but to kill a few people at the start right away, no, we can’t seem to stomach that." Curtis LeMay

    His numbers were a bit off. 13.5% of the North Korean population died.
     
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