Minding their Own Business, And then the Army Air Corps just dropped the Atomic Bomb for no reason.
No Reason What So Ever.
Posted on 05/19/2016 7:59:27 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
Tokyo (AFP) - Victims of the atomic bombings of Japan want an apology from US President Barack Obama when he visits Hiroshima next week, the head of a survivors' group said Thursday.
Obama will become the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, where the first atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, killing about 140,000 people in total.
Tens of thousands were killed by the fireball that the powerful Hiroshima blast generated, with many more succumbing to injuries or illnesses caused by radiation in the weeks, months and years afterwards.
Vast swathes of the city, including many of its military and industrial installations, were flattened.
The southern city of Nagasaki was hit by a second bomb days later, killing 74,000 people, in one of the final acts of World War II.
"I urge him to apologise to those who died, bereaved families and parents who lost their children," Terumi Tanaka, secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations and a survivor of the Nagasaki explosion, told reporters.
The comments came as Obama's much anticipated journey to Hiroshima reignited an emotional debate over whether the bombings were justified and whether the US president should apologise.
Obama, who will be in Japan for a Group of Seven summit, will visit Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park on May 27 and be accompanied by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
US officials have ruled out an apology for the bombings and said Obama will not revisit the decision by then-US President Harry Truman to carry them out.
"Many atomic bomb victims think it's not all right if (Obama) doesn't apologise," said Toshiki Fujimori, the group's assistant secretary general and also a survivor of the Hiroshima bomb.
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Minding their Own Business, And then the Army Air Corps just dropped the Atomic Bomb for no reason.
No Reason What So Ever.
#1 it isnt his to give
#1.5 Apologize for what?
#2 Are these people going to apologize for all of the Chinese people killed, “comfort women” defiled, and soldiers wounded and killed?
What “victims?”
“I urge him to apologise to those who died, bereaved families and parents who lost their children,” Terumi Tanaka, secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations and a survivor of the Nagasaki explosion, told reporters. “
Look in the mirror.
No apology.
Bull cookies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes
Excuse me.
Yeah.
Sorry we didn’t invade and thereby cause the death of multiple millions of your men, women and children. Sorry we didn’t do to Japan what Japan did to Nanking. Sorry we didn’t do the right thing and stomp Japan to throughly into the dirt and debris that they’d still be trying to crawl out from under the rubble.
I’m sorry we had to defend ourselves against an unwarranted attack. I’m sorry that your crew was stupid enough to fire on a station filled with a quarter million civilians, including your own people. And I’m sorry I waited as long as I did before I blew them all straight to Hell!... As with everything else, it’s the thought that counts. - Capt. John Sheridan
So, when to they apologise to the people of Nanjing?
Roccus to Hiroshima atomic bomb victims...
How does it feel to "want"?
Why do liberals consistently want us to apologize for events of the past?
They would like to see apologies for the atomic bomb, apologies for slavery and segregation, apologies for the shortcomings of the Founding Fathers, who allowed for slavery and didn’t give women equal rights at that time, apologies for the treatment of American Indians, and other causes.
In recent years, liberals have talked a lot about World War II events. They have said that the bombings of Dresden, Hamburg, the firebombings of Tokyo, as well as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were all war crimes and/or crimes against humanity.
And I ask myself, why? Why are the liberals focused on these past events, and pick them out as troublesome, without any context of why these events happened??? Why do the liberals not talk about why was it, that we bombed these cities??? Why do the liberals never talk about the fact that the Axis powers started World War II, and our aim was to finish it????
There’s an incredible lack of balance to these people picking out events for which we should apologize, and acknowldge guilt, without any context as to why we were in a position in the first place, to be at war with the Axis.
Japan can kiss my butt.
They started it and were terrible all around.
I think a big part of it is Obama’s culture of appeasement and apology.
He better not Apologize
My father was on Okinawa and would have been part of the invasion.
Thousands of US military personnel would have died in the invasion of Japan.
Millions of Japanese would have died in the invasion of Japan.
Russia would have participated in the invasion of Japan and it is possible that Japan would have been partitioned, like Germany.
We only had two working bombs, there were none available for a so-called demonstration.
Even after the first bomb, the Japanese military didn’t want to surrender.
As a result of the second bomb, the Emperor imagined the sky filled with US bombers all equipped with these bombs (he had no idea that we had exhausted our supply).
Truman did the right thing by ending the war with these two bombs.
Did I leave anything out?
The Japanese Army was the ISIS of the 30’s and 40’s.
Murder, torture and rape were SOP where they conquered.
The nation that spawned that evil deserved every nuke they got.
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