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[n4807g]

Hello Stephanie...if you review history you'll find that the Generals wanted to bomb Hanoi and other cities to ashes. They were over ruled by LBJ. He was concerned that the Chinese would declare war and fight with the North. China was so convinced that they were next, they moved much of their military industrial complex out of the cities into the country. They built new airbases along the border with NV and they improved the roads in NV so they could move war material to the North.

Uncle Ho was so distraught that the cities were going to be destroyed and the will of the people broken to the point where the North would lose the war. LBJ approved of every target, personally.

Review history. Had the Generals had there way the entire city of Hanoi would have been flattened first. All of it.

[blue13326]

I was watching the History channel on the plans for the invasion of Japan in WW2; Schwarzkoppf (sp?) said that the casualty estimates for US soldiers in the invasion was around 500K US dead (if you look at Okinawa, we had huge casualties taking that tiny island, and killed 200K Japanese, because their culture (which is fascinating) pushed them to fight to the last). Also, the US POWs in Japan were dying at a rate of 1K/day, and Japan made it clear that they would all be executed if an invasion occurred. Anyway, they had some WW2 vets on who said the day they heard the A-Bomb was dropped, just about every US soldier in the camp started weeping, because they all expected they would die in the assault on Japan, and knew their lives had been saved. One soldier interviewed said, "I love the A-bomb, because it saved my life." Strange.