209: Dropping A Bombs & F Bombs
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
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The Myth of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima is one sixth the size of Nantucket. Harry Truman, when they're having a meeting on June 18th at the White House on whether to invade or not. He's highly conscious of what a bloodbath Okinawa was. And that's informing them, but they, they, but Truman approves the invasion because they don't know what the hell else to do. It sounds like a pretty limited thing to get seven, eight thousand people killed.
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