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Originally Posted by Nightfyre
Well, people are quantifying evil in terms of lives taken. Truman, through the use of nuclear weapons took in excess of 200,000 lives, the majority of which were civilian. However, you could qualify that by saying japanese civilians were warriors and that ultimately it saved nearly as many american lives simply through the use of the bomb. I'm just running with the standards of the board here though.
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In that case Roosevelt took FAR more lives than Truman ever thought of. Hell throw Curtis LeMay in there also.
And in Truman's defense, he actually saved far more lives by dropping the bomb than would have been lost in continuing Fire Bombing raids & or the invasion of Japan.