its funny that often the people who cry racism are often the biggest ones. (if you paint the israelis with one brush or the liberal media, or for that matter religious right media you are making the same type of blanket statement you are complaining about - without referring to specific facts.)

I just wanted to respond to Little Hawks comments about 'cowardly acts' probably I should have chosen other words 'treacherous' comes to mind (since that might be what you would call an act of war between nations at peacetime. (Despite the fact the US knew its economic policy towards Japan might lead it to war sooner or later it a bit of a stretch to say they were both responsible ie. cutting off scrap iron doesnt equal a preemptive strike on Pearl harbor (one is an economic move the other is an act of war). the semantics are beside the point anyway, my point was that while horrific the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were as bad as any other act of war and to single out the US as an example ignores all the other horrific acts and all the other civilians that died in the war. Truman also saw the wisdom not to use them in the Korean War when Macarthur called for them.

the fact of the matter is this discussion started about Saddam and nuclear weapons, and on that point we should be thankful that the Israelis knocked out the Baghdad reactor in 81.