{"id":98,"date":"2011-08-05T13:17:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2011-08-05T13:17:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:17:35","slug":"on-the-66th-anniversary-of-the-bombing-of-hiroshima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"on the 66th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2011\/08\/05\/1003546\/-On-the-Sixty-Sixth-Anniversary-of-the-Bombing-of-Hiroshima?via=siderecent\">http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2011\/08\/05\/1003546\/-On-the-Sixty-Sixth-Anniversary-of-the-Bombing-of-Hiroshima?via=siderecent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although many others could be cited, here, finally, is the statement of another conservative, a man who was a close friend of President Truman\u2019s, his Chief of Staff (as well as President Roosevelt\u2019s Chief of Staff), and the five star Admiral who presided over meetings of the Combined U.S.-U.K. Chiefs of Staff during the war\u2014William D. Leahy: \u201c[T]he use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender. . . . [I]n being the first to use it, we . . . adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. \u00a0I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;destroying women &amp; children&#8217; vs. today&#8217;s &#8216;collateral damage&#8217;\u00a0 . .\u00a0 . how our lives have changed . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2011\/08\/05\/1003546\/-On-the-Sixty-Sixth-Anniversary-of-the-Bombing-of-Hiroshima?via=siderecent Although many others could be cited, here, finally, is the statement of another conservative, a man who was a close friend of President Truman\u2019s, his Chief of Staff (as well as President Roosevelt\u2019s Chief of Staff), and the five &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=98\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}