Why Didn't Nazis just Kill POWs

[Trumpton]

Churchill was the first to use the phrase; "Iron Curtain".

[Guilbert]

>"sad about the Japs who got killed by the Enola Gays payload but really it was a case of finishing the war or not".

I think the US motivation for finishing the war quickly was to keep the USSR out of the Far East.

The USSR said they would come down to the Far East to help end the war, but the US knew they would never get them out of Vietnam, Korea, China etc one they got in there.

THAT was the reason for ending the war quickly.

I also think the US wanted to see if their two news "playthings" worked after spending all that money on them. It also gave them the chance to say to the USSR "look what weve got, so you better behave".

> I am not sure how I feel. The day that the Enola Gay set off changed our outlook on war.

I think the fact that these 2 bombs went off has done more to STOP a world war since than anything else.

Once people saw the almightly power of these bombs they have all been shit scared to set another one off in anger.

[andy at handiwork]

Apparently not. Though it is generally thought that Churchill's use of the term in his 1946 Fulton, Missouri speech, was its first airing, he had himself used the term in a message to President Truman in may 45. Shortly before that Goebbels had mentioned the threat of a Russian 'iron curtain' falling over Europe. In the early 1920s a Labour politician referred to an 'iron wall of partition' being raised around the new Russian Soviet state by those afraid of catching the communist infection. During the first world war a British woman writer, whilst listening to a concert of Bach's music, wrote that obviuosly at that very moment in Germany there would be people listening to and enjoying the same sublime notes. She was saddened by the 'monstrous iron curtain of war' that cut peoples off from each other.

[laralatex]

yes mmm, but we shouldn't be there (Iraq- and yes i did march against the war) in there in the first place....ooh watch out, condaleeza's just warning us that she's gonna invade Iran, oh and now the US and A have a hold in Iraq to launch this attack. With Gordon Brown talking about how much we are 'joined with America in their beliefs' the other day, I think next year is a good time for coffin makers!

I have enough crap in my life, I don't need another load instigated by some American dropped at my doorstep...O.K and action dick up arse!!!

Tyrade over pups

[Sam Slater]

While the Swiss sit back chuckling to themselves.