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A horrendous war was concluded with a
horrendous event: 200,000 people were killed instantaneously when the
U.S. dropped nuclear bombs first on Hiroshima and then on Nagasaki. Tens
of thousands more died later from radiation poisoning. [27]
"We pray that God might guide us to use [the Bomb] in his ways and for
His purposes." (President Harry Truman, 1945) [28]
The defeat of Japan had already been assured before the bombs were
dropped. Their main purpose was to demonstrate to the world the deadly
power of America's new weapon of mass destruction." [29]
World War II left the U.S. in a position of political, economic and
military superiority.
"We must set the pace and assume the responsibility of the majority
stockholder in this corporation known as the world." (Leo Welch, former
Chairman of the Board, Standard Oil of New Jersey (now Exxon) 1946) [30]
The U.S. eagerly assumed responsibility for determining the economic
policies and selecting the management of what it considered to be the
subsidiary companies that made up the "corporation known as the world."
But this didn't go over too well in many nations that considered
themselves to be sovereign countries.
FUERA YANKIS!
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