Posted on 08/31/2008 9:45:22 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
TOKYO (AFP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set this week to be the highest-ranking sitting US official to visit the site of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, which bitterly divides opinion six decades later.
No sitting US president or vice president has ever paid respects to the dead of the US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, a sore point for many survivors in Japan.
Pelosi will travel to Hiroshima for a meeting of parliament speakers from the Group of Eight major industrial nations. Pelosi, who is second in line to the presidency, is a member of Barack Obama's Democratic Party.
On Tuesday, Pelosi and the other speakers will lay flowers at a memorial in Hiroshima, hear testimony from a bomb survivor and hold discussions on disarmament, according to Japanese officials.
Kota Kiya, who was four years old when the atomic bomb devastated his hometown, welcomed the visit but said he hoped the leaders of nuclear weapons states would come instead.
"We wish that top leaders would visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki while they are in power, at least once, to see the atrocity of the nuclear bombings," said Kiya, secretary general of the Hiroshima chapter of Hidankyo, the group of atomic bomb survivors.
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She a few weeks and 63 years too late.
Complete the tour, Nancy....go to Bataan, Nanking....
Great! Another dose of America-bashing! I can’t wait!
I’m going to bed now.
I can’t take this crap anymore...
I can’t wait to hear the Bug Eyed Moron prattle on some new blarney on this trip.
“Bittery divided” by no one that I know.
BTW: Anybody know the difference between “landmark” and “historical?” The bongers in the “media” have thrown me a curve with this one.
Well, that should turn out the WWII vote in November.
Keep it coming.
More from Tokyo-si Pelosi.
She’s going to apologize. She has to be the stupidest Speaker of the House ever. And yet she supports the murder of 40 million innocent Americans through abortion. What a lovely woman.
Nancy, we nuked them to end the war. Get over it.
There would not have been a Hiroshima if Obama was around to talk to the Japanese. Hell, there wouldn’t have even been a Pearl Harbor. /sarc
...Pearl Harbor...
Umm... She would be turd in line for the Presidency,
Ms. Palin will kick her botox/buttocks.
I can bet that the prime minister of japan has not gone to Pearl Harbor or Bataan or nangking or any of the numerous death camps throughout the south pacific.They made their history so they can damn well live with it.This woman is anti American pure and simple.
And the ones properly to blame would be the warhawk faction in the Japanese government. Nothing short of a nuking would make them see reason. Truman, et al., could see that.
sigh..not only did the bombings end the war..it also saved both allies and japanese lives in the process..wonder if nuncy is going to blame President Bush for this..
we should never apologize for this. There is no reason to. In fact, the two atomic bombs ended the war, and saved Japan millions of dead people who would have died in conventional attacks.
And to think a Democrat was commander-in-chief in ‘45.
Knowing Pelosi, she’ll use the visit to outline her nuclear energy policy.
Gloria was doing an intentional self-parody, what the hey is Nan’s rationale?
Will she go visit the site of “Unit 731”?
Will she go visit the site of “Unit 731”?
O.K...I’m a news junkie. Is there some deep divide that needs to be healed that I haven’t heard about?
We were at war, we ended it. Period..end of story. Get over the photo ops.
Only for the losing side, and the hate-America-first Liberals.
Pelosi, who is second in line to the presidency, is a member of Barack Obama's Democratic Party.
Hmmm, I always thought Dick Cheney was second in line. And since when did the Democrat Party belong to Barack Hussein Obama?
Is this Shaun Tandon's first article?
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Hey, Nancy: Making an ass of yourself in as many countries as possible does not qualify as “foreign policy experience.”
DemocRATS need some publicity?
I wonder what stupid s**t she’s gonna say this time.
Well,
She’s improved. At least it isn’t Syria......
These sort of “stunts” is what the bottom feeders on the political stage use to get their names heard too.
“Pelosi will travel to Hiroshima...”
Need to put some clown shoes on her so her feet won’t fit into her mouth.
Siiiiiiiiiiigh it is a very big mouth though, isn’t it.
There was a time, deep in the murky mists of history, when Democrats were still Americans.
Japan now has 20 nuke plants, in earthquake country, who gets the blame for this?
Democrats are ashamed of America.
I’m so tired of asinine gestures like this.
Visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki to see the consequences of waging war on the United States. Don't want to be annihilated, then don't initiate hostilities. Fairly clear-cut.
Atrocities? I don't think the Japanese want to go there.
Idiot.
Better approval rating in Japana and Syria than the US.
No, she’ll ask what made the Hiroshima Nuclear Power Plant blow up.
They’ll tell her it was the same thing that made the Nagasaki Nuclear Power blow up.
It is so hard to keep from thinking uncharitable thoughts about her. I know I cannot keep from God that which is in my heart, and when I think of Nancy, I keep waiting for the hammer to fall - on me.
Well said. I couldn't agree more.
Musso & Franks, in Hollywood is a landmark. The Watts Towers in South Central L.A. (Watts) is an historical landmark.
The Varsity Restaurant, in Atlanta, Ga., is a landmark. The Atlanta Underground, also in Atlanta, is an historical landmark.
The difference is, one is or was used as a point of reference of some import, the other is significant in that it has played a part in some history, therefore it has historical significance.
Ha,ha, not likely. The ground there is still contaminated from the Japanese germ warfare experiments.
Yes, or in the words of the millions who suffered for years under the boot of unspeakable Japanese brutality:
“Only two?”
Thanks papasmurf! I’ve got it now! LOL! I get really confused when these “journalists” start speaking psychobabble. I’m monolingual.
“I’m monolingual.”
They have pills for that? LOL
Where are you from? Your homepage only shows a US Flag.
Will she apologize as Speaker, or as a devout practicing Catholic?
How soon can we get Republican House leader John Boehner to the USS Arizona for a contrasting photo op?
Northeastern Arizona! And it’s already trying to turn winter on us here right now.
Hooray Bomb!
My father was a Marine sitting on navy transport ship in the Philippine Sea when the first bomb was dropped. His unit was one of those scheduled to be used for the invasion of Japan. As soon as the second bomb was dropped the transport headed to China where his unit was used to disarm Japanese troops. Chances are if that bomb was not dropped I never would have seen him again
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