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Do you suppose that if I wrote about the Operation Meetinghouse raids or the March-August firebombing campaign against Japan, then A-bomb apologists would stop trotting these out every time I said something about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as if pointing to these other, equally horrible atrocities by the U.S. government somehow undermined what I had to say about the atomic bombings? Ha, ha, just kidding, I already wrote plenty of things about the March-August firebombing campaign (for example, here: http://radgeek.com/gt/2005/08/09/a_day/), and it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference, because most A-bomb apologists would rather recite the script of the argument they had with the clueless liberal they have in their head rather than address the issue on its own terms.