PUBLIC VIEWPOINT

PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Murderers Must Pay Price

— I’ve lived in Springdale for the past 11 years and have read every rant Mr. Bass Trumbo has had published, so now he can read one of mine.

World War II caused the deaths of millions of civilians and was started by a madman named Hitler. Our pre-emptive strike against Iraq was taken because another madman attacked his neighbor Kuwait. The prisoners at Gitmo were captured and imprisoned because they were part of the Islam fascist fringe of the terrorist faction overrunning the Muslim countries of the Middle East.

Getting them contained gave us time and information to try to bring peace to that troubled part of the world.

While Hitler was slaughtering millions, Japanese in the southeast Pacific were using Hitler’s plan to further their expansionist plans.

They were just as brutal and murderous as Hitler’s legions. The Japanese were a lot more motivated by the love and promise of their Emperor/God and went into battle determined to die a hero’s death.

The atomic weapons were used to save the lives of over a million Americans. There are no sandy beaches anywhere on the many Japanese islands. Their coasts are protected by rip-rap rocks the size of automobiles to prevent erosion.

And if we had been able to get ashore with an army, the only level land is rice paddies and 2- and 3-ton vehicles would sink out ofsight. That leaves the Japanese army and every civilian over age 10 equipped with bamboo spears to repel an invading army.

Another note on the killing of Osama bin Laden. We cut off the head of the No. 1 snake supplying money to finance the terrorist bombing and killing of innocent civilians - most of whom were Muslims.

Also, with the tendency to rewrite history, let’s remember leaflets were dropped a week before, on both cities bombed with atomic weapons, telling them to “get outta town.” At Hiroshima, half of them did.

WILLIAM HILL / Springdale

Opinion, Pages 5 on 05/26/2011

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