Recent content by zeroyon

Ah strongvoicesforward, it seems I had my head on bass ackwards and misinterpreted it. It's still just as bad that way though....

strongvoicesforward, I already know I made a mistake with the numbers of suicides, you don't need to rub it in :bluush: This is quite true. Also, i read that many were also fearful of their Japanese soldier 'protectors' because some japanese soldiers murdered Japanese civilans and used them...

I never said this anywhere, nor did I imply it. I never said that Truman shouldn't have been tried as a war criminal, I am explaining why he hasn't been. I was trying to explain what information the USA and the rest of the world had, to try and explain to people why he chose to do what he did...

From the information that the USA and the world had at the time, it seemed most likely that Japan would not surrender and fight to the last person if they were invaded (which would have most likely caused a substantial amount of more casualties, military and civilian. The estimate was a million...

I don't know about the whole "roads are wider" thing in the USA, I think the roads are wider in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver as compared to Colorado or the western USA (California, Nevada, Utah, etc). It depends where you are though. The only real difference between Denver and Calgary in my...

If Japan won the war, i'm sure that Truman would have been tried as a war criminal, but unfortunately only the victors decide who the war criminals are in the end. A note as well, Hiroshima contained many military installations and the western HQ of the japanese forces, so it could be...

I think that most americans should be concerned with Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. Especially since after their prayers on sunday, most of the population goes out in the streets shouting "death to america" and burns US flags. This is partly because most of the people of Iran think that Iran...

I felt like I was above-average in my math skills, and that the schools had a slightly easy cirriculum for their math courses while I was in Junior High and High School. This all changed though when I went through my calculus courses for engineering in university though, I went from feeling like...

When i got my citizenship in canada... they made it as painful of a process as possible. Even when I did become eligible... i still had to wait over a year and half to get through a whole process... as your application has to get "reviewed" in the reviewing process, which means it sits in a pile...

I think the best type of government is one that is not corrupt. Well... i guess that rules all of them out then :D

If i was "gifted" in anything, it would be my sporadic idiocy and terrible luck.

I think the A-bombs were not necessary. I do believe however, that it was definatley a better solution than invading japan. Not just better for less american casulaties, but there would have been an enormous amount of japanese casualties as well if the USA invaded japan, and japan woud look...

I see suicide as such a damn waste. If suicide is used as a ticket out of a bucket load of problems, then thats the bottom of the low. Its such a selfish way to take the easy way out of all of your problems. Like others here, ive thought of suicide to get out of many painful problems i am facing...

LOL! Awesome picture! Its kinda ironic too that if a territorial change were to ever occur between the USA and Canada, it would most likely be the USA taking over parts of Canada (i wouldn't be suprised if a seperation vote from Quebec actually passed for once, and then right after, DubYa moves...

Well said. Also... what does japan think about the election results? Are they generally unhappy like the whole of europe, or are they happy? I know that Kerry wanted to break off multi-lateral talks with North Korea, meaning if Kerry was elected then Japan would have been left out in...