Posted on 03/17/2011 5:25:57 PM PDT by an amused spectator
2226: The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, quoting a senior official of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, said the US made the offer immediately after the disaster damaged Fukushima No 1 nuclear plant. According to the unnamed senior official, US support was based on dismantling the troubled reactors run by Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) some 250 km (155 miles) northeast of Tokyo. However, the government and TEPCO thought the cooling system could be restored by themselves, the report said.
Am I reading this right?
Our government demanded that the Japanese dismantle - that is, permanently remove - over five gigawatts of power in order to help them with a critical safety problem that had the potential to destroy 100 square miles of land and kill or injure thousands of people?
That as compensation for helping them we demanded that they cripple their electrical generating capacity on a permanent basis?
You have to be kidding me.
This is an extremely serious charge. If it's true it stands alone as grounds for impeachment and dismembering every single federal agency involved.
Perhaps this explains why the US Military and/or civilian authorities didn't stick a couple of big-ass generators on a transport plane and get them over there, restoring power to the reactors within hours of the incident and avoiding all of the serious radiation and physical damage at the plant.
This allegation is ridiculously incendiary and demands an immediate and complete Congressional investigation. Not only do the citizens of the United States deserve to know the truth (or falsity) of this charge (and who initiated it if it is false), but so do the Japanese people.
If this is how this man treats our friends - attempting to use a crisis threatening the lives of civilians to score a political point and advance his "green" agenda.....
Sourced from Yomiuri Shimbun (this isn't some little small town rag):
Founded in 1874, the Yomiuri Shimbun is credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world having a combined morning and evening circulation of 14,323,781 through January 2002. The paper is printed twice a day and in several different local editions.
Also, the BBC feed.
umm..How is that impeachable?
No
Democrats never take responsibility for anything that doesn’t work.
If the Kenyan Clown did insist on such an outrageous condition before aiding our ally Japan, then words fail me.
I realize that the Kenyan usurper hates and despises the United States but at least it's a country that foolishly chose him and will have to endure his tenure; extending such egregious vileness to a good ally like Japan would be beyond the pale.
If true, it would benefit his true constituents, the chicoms. It would assist in the deindustrialization of Japan, long term, in favor of China.
If this is true, he must go!
This is OUTRAGEOUS! It's not the condition that Japan dismantle their nuke plant, but the fact that we placed a condition AT ALL!
As another poster on Karl's forum said: How is this any different than threatening to drop atom bombs on them if they don't dismantle the plant?
2226The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, quoting a senior official of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, said the US made the offer immediately after the disaster damaged Fukushima No 1 nuclear plant. According to the unnamed senior official, US support was based on dismantling the troubled reactors run by Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) some 250 km (155 miles) northeast of Tokyo. However, the government and TEPCO thought the cooling system could be restored by themselves, the report said.
Well, he did promise his communist and enviro whacky masters a nuclear free world
We thought he was only targeting the elimination of (USA) nuclear weapons
This does sound like the snot nosed elitist attitude of a typical obamite bureaucrat
∴ Bush's fault.
Gee I don’t know, blackmailing a foreign nation during a dire national disaster endangering the lives of countless individuals and the loss of infrastructure, before he would provide help.
Could that be a crime?
I've been asking this very question for days and nobody but me seems to care. I've been given all kinds of excuses, but no solid reasons. If Helos can carry apc's and trucks, I'm danged if I can understand why they can't carry and drop a few generators into the plant yard that could be connected within hours.
ANY electrical source, planes, ships, generators, ANYTHING that could trickle power into the pumps to keep the cooling system intact.
But I've been the only voice in the wilderness asking this question.
Perhaps he was trying to negotiate a contract for a new plant for GE?
Bookmark for later reread after getting over the shock of the audacity of this Administration IF this turns to be truth, and apparently is, and wouldn’t put it past them, and I’m outta here.
Has anybody noticed the word “unbelievable!” with an exclamation mark isn’t used much anymore with reference to this administration?
You are not alone I mentioned yesterday if this was Ronaldus Maximus the C-5A's would have been filled with the gen-sets and on their way. Another poster mentioned the C-5's, yes it makes sense.
This maybe the answer, their was a quid-pro-qou, and he let the Japanese dangle, they didn't bite, and they didn't have the resources to correct it.
So now, he has another crisis for the EPA, DOE and NRC to investigate our plants and I am curious how he finagles Japan to get the cleanup work for a Chicago Company or GE and also stop or slow down Nuclear Power.
It is enough to make you revile him isn't it...
I am sending this to both of my Senators.
The man is despicable
I’m stunned.
He’s crapped on Poland, UK, Israel, Egypt, a South American ally, and now, if this is true, Japan. We will not have one single country in the world who will trust us when he’s done. If there are any left, now.
This needs to be investigated. There needs to be a group of Democrat and Republican Senators go into the oval office and tell him he’s resigning or they will spill every bean they have on him.
The US offer was apparently contingent on conditions from US Greenies in the Obobblehead administration, who wanted the reactors shut down permanently, which was also reported by The Yomiuri Shimbun.
I thought the US did provide generators, but they were not compatible with Japanese equipment. Is this article saying that was not the case? If he did do this, it just doesn’t surprise me as serious as it is. Has he gone Blago? That is, he’s so used to pulling this kind of crap that he doesn’t think there something wrong with it anymore, or that nobody’s watching or listening or cares?
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Obama is a disgusting person. A national embarrasment. A filthy lying commie community organizer.
This is OUTRAGOUS and makes Americans look like thugs. does anyone believe the Japanese will stand for butt ugly windmills destroying their beautiful country.
I am furious he would hold Japan hostage to some f-ing political agenda.
For what, so he can stop Nuke enegy in the U.S?
2012..please get here soon.
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（ ( 2011年3 月18日08時12分 12:08 minutes 18 March 2011 読売新聞） Yomiuri Shimbun)
Cash for clunkers.
Gold for Granny.
Freedom for freeloaders.
Justice for jackals.
Phones for po’folk.
No oil for no one.
Shoe soles for Jews’ souls.
Most everything for muslims.
Liberty for looters.
Air Security for Personal Assault.
Rights for Leftists.
Assistance for Anti-nukes.
Nothing for Nippon.
Vacations for VIPs.
And foie gras for.....’me and my people’ alone.
Drinks all around. After all, the dollar’s a dime a dozen!
You tell me.
Poor choices and taste by this administration, sure; as usual.
But how is it impeachable? I don't see much in the Constitution about being obligated with no strings to help another nation.
Look, I'm not defending the guy, but anymore anyone and everyone is dropping the "impeachment" rhetoric for something they feel is egregious and frankly this site is looking a bit kook for it.
Thanks for posting this. Sadly, I believe it.
He is a coward rat. He gives up and then has anger and jealousy against surviving brave people, and he grinds his ax. It’s typical of such piece of crap tin pot underachieving dictators.
Who asked for your opinion, n00b?
No! Not you, too, Arkasha! ;-)
They couldn't have beached a ship off the shore and run lines from it to the reactor plants?Heck, they could have flown the danged things from the states over to there in 12 hrs if necessary.
We're not talking about having to move the world here. We're talking about having to get enough power to get those water pumps back online so that they didn't have to spend the next 8-10 years in a radioactive cleanup. And where are the now? At the very start of an 8-10 year cleanup.
I've had all kinds of people tell me why it couldn't be done and hey, I'll grant you that I'm only a computer guy and not an engineer, but we're not talking about an engineering problem here. We're talking about a power problem here.
I think that it's a shame that the two most technologically advanced countries in the world, BAR NONE, allowed this to happen because they couldn't between the 2 of them, come up with an original solution.
It's disgraceful.
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_646444.html
I thought engineers were supposed to be genius's at mechanics. All of the engineers at Tepco, GE, US and Jap govs couldn't figure out how to splice in a bypasses that would allow electricity to flow from the generator to the pump until a more permanent solution could be come up with???
I guess I must be simplifying things by a factor of a million cause I can't see where it was an impossibile thing. Difficult yes, but impossible????
I understand he is going to Rio tomorow. Perhaps he can not be let back in?
The government and Tepco, both having first thought the cooling system could be restored by themselves, rejected the offer as they believed 'it was too early to take,' Yomiuri said.
Some ruling party and government officials pointed that the country could have avoided the current crisis if Prime Minister Naoto Kan's government had accepted the offer, it said.
This is how Obama and the lapdog media will spin this. They will all say it's Japan's fault for not accepting the offer.
I really want to hear their justification for this. But there IS no justification for our govt doing that. They should have solved the problem first THEN tried their blackmail gambit. This is going to make him look like a fool and since he's the POTUS, it's going to make US look like a bunch of vicious blackmailers. :(:(:(
If this is accurate, this will cement his place in history all right.
WHAT DID THE PRESIDENT KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT??? I WANT A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO THIS CHARGE, ASAP!!
It sure is. Damn I'm mad! :(
Our enemies ought to be shaking in their boots. If he'd stab an ally in the back like this, imagine what he'd do to the enemy.
Jerk
And where will Obama be tomorrow?:
Flying Down to Rio
My Rio, Rio by the sea-o
Flying down to Rio where there’s rhythm and rhyme
Hey feller, twirl that old propeller
Got to get to Rio and we’ve got to make time
You’ll love it, soaring high above it
Looking down on Rio from a heaven of blue
Send a radio to Rio De Janeiro with a big hello
Just so they’ll know and stand by there, we’ll fly there
Oh, Rio, everything will be okay
We’re singing and winging our way to you
You’ll love it, soaring high above it
Looking down on Rio from a heaven of blue
Send a radio to Rio De Janeiro with a big hello
Just so they’ll know and stand by there, we’ll fly there
Oh Rio, everything will be okay
We’re singing and winging our way to you.
Obama is a closet bigot. He is nothing but a black racist with an ax to grind and mock at the Japanese, like all self pomped narcissistic democrate. He hates achievers on top of that and wallows in homosexual self hate, and he plays his wife who probably takes it on the US. Sbirs of Jeremiah Wright,giving up on anything intelligible.
This is a POTUS who defies the SCOTUS and works to undermine valid state legislation via extra-political means such as facilitating union thuggery, as well as filing suit against the legislation and using the hammer of the DOJ.
He would not only not listen to a group of Senators, he would proceed to order them destroyed via the power of the Executive and likely, that of the media, as well.
He is running for a second term. He calmly states to his donors that he has made beneficial changes to America. We can see that he is extending his policies to the entire Free World.
Meanwhile, we cannot agree on a candidate, the GOP is fractured and ineffective, the public by and large parrots the progressive memes of the state-run media and the world is spiraling down into war in the ME that will make oil and gasoline prohibitively expensive. If Q-daffy is cornered and hurt enough, does anyone think he wouldn’t blow his oil fields before dying? That would further facilitate the destruction of the world economy. It was likely a selling point for zerO. Note his buddies in the UN, China and Russia, did not vote for the bombing of Libya. They are the only ones who will defy him.
The Congress is totally complicit. So are all the Cabinet and the czars. Add the EU.
At this point, anyone at all would be an improvement. I fully understand how right-wing strongmen end up in power after a Marxist regime.
Likely, our former allies don’t blame the American people and understand all too well the nature of this regime.
sfl
Bookmarked for further exposure.
I'm just glad you're not in charge of this crisis. You spend too much time in a virtual world.
I haven’t read beyond your rant, but I agree with you totally, and thanks for a great post. You covered many of my own grievances of what is happening.
From the information we have been subjected to I believe we are getting a mixture of some news, and a whole bunch of disinformation. Almost reminds me of the Gulf Oil spill.
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