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onset cancer, malformed newborns, and other various illnesses due to the radiation; we call it a military decision, a final blow The truth is that the people who write history are those who win the wars.

Many might say that Truman had a hard decision, and had to learn to live with the fact that he killed many, innocent and non-innocent alike. If this were true, then why did Truman publicly declare to further the development of the hydrogen bomb, in a testing series named Operation Ivy. "It is part of my responsibility as Commander in Chief of the Armed forces to see to it that our country is able to defend itself against any possible aggressor. Accordingly, I have directed the AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) to continue its work on all forms of atomic weapons, including the so-called hydrogen or Super bomb."President Harry S. Truman, January 31, 1950.

The truth is that the threat was us, not our one time allies of World War II, the soviet union; because in this writers' opinion, Truman feared that the atrocity he committed would end up having some karmic blowback.

In 2003, many Iraqi war criminals; Uday, Qusay, and Saddam Hussein, were found guilty for the same reasons. Saddams sons were killed by coalition forces in northern Iraq, while saddam was found guilty by trial.

As we seek to find more war criminals in that far off land, I ask you when will the American war criminals be placed on trial?

I stated these facts, instead of attacking President Bush who, like Charles Manson, sent his soldiers to commit murderous crimes against the innocent; innocent till proven guilty, (or does war justify Napoleonic Law). When is it that we forget what we are supposed to uphold as right and wrong, when does the finger of tyranny quit pointing at others and end up pointing at us.

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