Subject: Re: Control Panel: Iran War, trends continue

Pretty sure he meant “conventional bombing”. Also pretty sure you knew that.

I was considering all sorts of bombs. You can level a city with conventional bombs, it just takes longer than a nuke. Look at what the Israelis have done to Gaza. Over 70,000 dead, that we know of. No knowing how many are buried under the rubble. And the bright sparks in the Israeli regime have said they want to do the same to Lebanon.

The Wiki entry shows 90,000–166,000 killed in Hiroshima, and 60,000–80,000 killed in Nagasaki. In comparison the firebomb raid on Tokyo killed 90,000 to 100,000, the preceding March. iirc, I have read somewhere that Curtis LeMay, who commanded the bombing offensive against Japan, said that, if the US had lost, he fully expected he would have been tried and convicted as a war criminal.

Steve