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>We were not trying to exterminate a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
Yes we were lol "We will keep massacring civilians until you agree to unconditional surrender," is a genocidal strategy.
>We were trying to stop a war, and it worked.
It wasn't necessary to stopping the war. None of the highest-ranking American military leaders thought the atomic bombs were essential to winning the war.
>Thanks to that, hundreds of thousands of civilians died, not millions.
False dichotomy based on nothing but a "just-so story."