Archive for November 3rd, 2007

Hell yeah, finally dead: Paul Tibbets

Paul Tibbets, you ask? Yes, Paul Tibbets was the commander of the Enola Gay which dropped the first nuclear bomb in recorded human history over an inhabited area. The man became 92 years old before he died 2 days back in his home, but despite his age - it seems - he grew no wiser:

If you give me the same circumstances, hell yeah, I’d do it again. (quote from 2005)

He only took orders, you say?! True, but after seeing the misery he created for Japanese at this moment in history as well as until now through the abnormities created by the lasting radiation he could have expressed regret. Too late for him now.

// Oliver