Another anniversary of another bombing
Channel: fluffymcdeath
Date: 06/08/2015

There are always going to be people who say "yes, but it was necessary" and "it saved more lives than it killed" and they would say that, wouldn't they, because that's what they've been told and that's what they want to believe, else they'd have to consider that maybe they weren't the "good guys" after all.
There were significant numbers of generals at the time who thought it was gratuitous, and plenty of historians with good reasons and evidence to show that it was unnecessary and we knew it.
But the atrocities of winners are always excused. "We did what we had to" they say and everyone nods and goes about their business.