Reply #65: General LeMay: Good Leftist Apologist? [View All]

[Bridget Burke]

"Air Force General Curtis LeMay had argued in July at Potsdam that the war would have ended in two weeks independently of whether the bomb was used or the Russians entered the war. 'The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war.' Back in April he had maintained that the war would be ended in September without a U.S. invasion."

www.mind.net/rvuuf/pages/decision.htm

He'd overseen the firebombing of Japanese cities that killed more people than died in Hiroshima & Nagasaki. He thought that was probably sufficient, as did other military leaders cited in the referenced article--& elsewhere.

But you just consider him a pinko pacifist, I guess.