Are We Killing So Many People?

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Daniel goldhoggins subsequent book on jeneside, opening chapter, he actually accuses harry trueman of being a war criminal for a nagasaki and heroshima. Andye, i think that's right. So we don't want, i, i don't want to make a moral equivalency argument. At some people have made that equivaency argument. I mean, the point of dropping the nuclear weapons was to end the war, to stop the killing. Ah, the aushwitz,. the point of that was to exterminate every last jew in europe er world wide, just get em all. There is anthing really fundamentally different in what George bush

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