I think so.

An empire of the worst kind. Not interested in the spread of civilization or prosperity. An empire aimed at the exploitation of the people of the world, and one that hids behind democracy and religion to justify its actions.

Just because one man makes a bad decision about a war, you're going to go and say that the United States is a cruel empire?

This makes no sense.

Ya'll need to stop chaseing scapegoats and get to the real problems.

This began long before GW. The US imperialism before the 1900s, invading the Pacific islands, the Philipines. The Monroe Doctrine and the constant interference in South American politics in order to spread "democracy". The extermination of the native Americans? The Cold War invasion of Vietnam to re-instate a corrupt regime. The countless CIA operations aimed at placing US friendly governments in countries that had democratically elected their rulers. These actions sound like the ones of an Empire.

These are the real problems.

So no other world goverment has ever done anything horrible or killed massive numbers of people. Get over yourself.

I never said that. This regards the US as an evil empire. If you are not willing to see this, perhaps you are worth all the blame.

jnifw3nloi and Neo I totally agree with. What I think everyone can/should agree with is the US has gotten progressivly worse since President Bush came to office. Many US Presidents have used whatever excuse they could find to get away with bending the rules, or even breaking them. Bush, I think, takes the cake.
The US has never been flawless. The US Constitution was a brilliant and necessary for developing our country, but most presidents find ways to get around it. We have invaded more countries than i can think of off the bat and millions have died. The United States has turned into an Empire which has no credibility or good name with the rest of the world, and as an American, i have to say shame on us. Its our fault we got this way, particularly for re-electing Bush. Its our fault because we DO have a republic system of government. we elected those in charge and they arent doing a great job.

Japan also killed cilivians, no one is denying that. But instead of immediately moving to the murder of hundreds of thousands, one must exaust all other options. Japan had been largely defeated. Its navy and airforce destroyed or under supplyed. Invasion was not needed. The war with Japan could have been solved without the nuclear bomb. The Japanese had no idea what the nuclear device could do. No one did. It had never before been dropped on a city or used in war.
And the nuclear bomb had been tested before it was dropped on Japan.

Japan could have been defeated with a simple blockade. It could not have sustained the war for much longer and it could not have attacked since it was pushed to its mainland.
But you are right, dreadfully off-topic.

Seeing as America is a large melting pot of nationalities, I find all of this ironic.

Source?

When the bomb was being developed, the only way they would know if it worked was to test it in the Los Alamos desert in New Mexico. They would not drop an untested prototype on the slim chance that it would work. This is one of the most unintelligent questions I have ever been asked.

If the US had attacked the japanese mainland, thousands more people would have died. The Japaneese were perfectly willing to fight to the death and would never accept surrender. In some cases entire villages of women and children threw themselves off cliffs rather than admit defeat. A fight for Japan on Japaneese soil would have forever destroyed Japan.