A Short History Lesson: 1945

August 6th:
Dropped atomic bomb
on civilians
at Hiroshima.

August 8th:
Agreed to hold
war crimes trials
for Nazis.

August 9th:
Dropped atomic bomb
on civilians
at Nagasaki.


- From David Krieger's Today Is Not a Good Day for War. Krieger is founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He's also a poet.



The hypocrisy of US foreign policy does not begin and end with George W Bush. It is a long and ignoble tradition.

Sincerely,

Matthew Rothschild
Editor, The Progressive
editorial@progressive.org.

Bill Totten http://www.ashisuto.co.jp/english/index.html