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Why do Americans think they're so nuclear-righteous?

Why is it that we, the only people to have deliberately nuked innocent men, women and children into radioactive vapor, feel we occupy the moral high ground when it comes to nuclear proliferation? Where do we get off telling Iran that they can't have nukes but we can? The Iranians have never nuked anybody. Aren't we the extremists here?

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  • TE
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    The U.S. used a weapon as a last resort against a hostile nation in WWII, that first of all started the war by bombing us, and ended up saving lives by preventing the war from continuing. The difference here is that Iran has said they want to wipe Israel off the map. Israel has done nothing to them. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, nobody will be safe.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Tell me what country you are from, Bullwinkie, so we can add it to the nuke list.

    We nuked the Japs because of the high price of Sony TV, and that cheat with Beta-max tape decks. I have a rack full of Beta tapes and my beta deck is broken. You would be mad too. We were also upset over well-done seafood and the bomb converted then to Sushi.

    Iran chased out our buddy the Shaw of Iran and grabbed our Embassy. They wear funny clothes, and they ride camels instead of the civilized smoking. The best way to show them how to smoke camels is to nuke then and gave then seeing thousands os smoked camels. It is an acquired taste.

  • 1 decade ago

    Hmmmm.... don't you think it would be a bit irresponsible to allow nukes to fall into the hands of government leaders who have publicly said that a neighboring country should be "wiped off the map?"

  • 1 decade ago

    We will not use Nuclear weapon on just anybody, We used it so that the people that want to bring terror to us will second guess that choice. We are against terrorist nations have bombs because they would use them for many reasons included genacide not protection, we only used it that one time to show japan and the world we are a nation of one that will not tolerate being F*%KEd with. Its like gun owners...there are the people that buy a gun to kill people and to rob them, and then their are the people that buy them to protect them and their loved ones.

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  • 1 decade ago

    ---But as soon as they get them they will and that is why we should not let Iran acquire nukes.

  • 1 decade ago

    Nobody on the planet should have them. To think that people like GWB control things like that is truly scary.

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