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Originally posted by k1xv:
I thought the first person in recent history to order the use of a WMD was President Truman, who authorized the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Before that, in Europe, was the use of fire bombs to annihilate tens of thousands of civilians in Dresden Germany, at a point in time when Germany was on the verge of collapse.
I am not saying it was not justified...I think it was...at least the Hiroshima one. But they were WMD, and we used them. Just wanted to get the history right.