Hiroshima Revisited

We all know that a million Americans would have died if the US had to invade Japan to stop WWII.

No doubt about it.

But that's only The Narrative.  Here's another Narrative that you never heard.......didja?

...Eisenhower also was the only president who's openly critical of the US dropping the atomic bombs in 1945. You know, and he said at the top what he said, he said when Stimson briefed him at Potsdam that the United States was about to use the atomic bomb. Eisenhower wrote on a couple occasions that I got more and more depressed just listening to them. But I didn't volunteer anything because my war in Europe was over. Then he asked me what I thought and I told him I was against it for two reasons. Number one, the Japanese were already defeated and tried to surrender and we didn't need to use it. And number two, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon. The U.S. at age five, star admirals and generals in 1945. Seven of the eight are officially on the record saying the atomic bombs were the militarily unnecessary, morally reprehensible or both. And the other the eighth was Marshall, who said that the Soviet invasion alone would likely leverage the Japanese into surrender by itself. So they all knew that the atomic bombs were necessary. Truman knew it as well as anybody. When he went to have lunch with Stalin. Potsdam on July 17th, he goes back and writes in his journal said Russia Stalin will be in the Jap war by August 15th. Sydney Japs when that occurs, he writes home to his wife Bess the next day, say the Russians are coming in. We'll end the war a year sooner now. Think of all the kids who won't be killed. He knew it. He refers to the intercepted telegram on July 18th as the telegram from the Jap emperor asking for peace. They knew that the Japanese were defeated...

(Transcript, Tucker Carlson interviewing Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick)

Stone and Kuznick are not my cup of tea, and Carlson is obviously discomfited with some of their chatter.  But Kuznick read the f*n memos and letters. 

Was Ike lying?  Truman?  Were all those flags and 4-stars stupid?

Good questions.