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Obama at Hiroshima: 'Death fell from the sky'
AP ^ | May 26, 2016 | Nancy Benac and Foster Klug

Posted on 05/27/2016 3:46:41 AM PDT by C19fan

Barack Obama on Friday paid tribute to the "silent cry" of the 140,000 people killed by the world's first atomic bomb attack and sought to renew attention in his unfulfilled vision of a world without nuclear weapons, as he became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima.

"Death fell from the sky and the world was changed," Obama said, after laying a wreath, closing his eyes and briefly bowing his head before an arched monument in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park that honors those killed on Aug. 6, 1945, when U.S. forces dropped the bomb that ushered in the nuclear age. The bombing, Obama said, "demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hiroshima; nuclear; obama; war
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To: C19fan

Such comments from the “man” (undocumented pRres_ _ent)
who brought Ebola, incurable TB, Zika, and more
death to America (increasing this weekend)
and started ISIS with it cruicifixions and slavery.

Obama is a stinking Islamist slaver who thinks
Pearl Harbor was a workplace accident like
911, and the bastard cheers both.


41 posted on 05/27/2016 4:28:46 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: lowbridge
Yeah...death fell from the sky that day.

...but you hard headed mofos needed another to see the light.

So eff a bunch of samurai s*** and be grateful for our mercy...that we didn't turn you into Norks.


42 posted on 05/27/2016 4:29:06 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: C19fan

Obama is a traitor through and through, and Congress joins him in such moral turpitude.


43 posted on 05/27/2016 4:30:48 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Gay State Conservative
Obama: Had the US not imposed sanctions on Japan before the war, they would not have attacked Pearl Harbor. Oh, PM Abe, so sorry for making you attack us and then so sorry for dropping the bomb.
44 posted on 05/27/2016 4:30:53 AM PDT by Netz
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To: mrs. a

Good one, mrs


45 posted on 05/27/2016 4:33:13 AM PDT by patriot08 (5th generation Texan (girl type) ANGRY? REFUSE TO VOTE? HELLO HILLARY!!!)
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To: C19fan
Critics believe Obama's mere presence in Hiroshima will be viewed as an apology for what they see as a justified attack.

Count me in for that category, particularly as the assclown should be remembering the veterans who lost their lives in service to protecting our freedoms.

46 posted on 05/27/2016 4:34:20 AM PDT by Brandonmark (There still may be hope for our country! 11.08.2016- DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: C19fan

Obama is just pissed because it prevented the Soviets from having a claim to mainland Japan.


47 posted on 05/27/2016 4:34:57 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: C19fan

What an A-hole the president is.


48 posted on 05/27/2016 4:36:50 AM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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To: C19fan

A black guy telling a group of Asians how bad whitey is.


49 posted on 05/27/2016 4:37:55 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: C19fan
feh... my the boy die from azz cancer
50 posted on 05/27/2016 4:39:41 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: lowbridge

“”Death fell from the sky and the world was changed,”

December 7, 1941... a date that will remain in Infamy.

Japan, don’t start what you can’t finish.

son of a WWII veteran, China Burma India Theatre


51 posted on 05/27/2016 4:39:55 AM PDT by wetgundog ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
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To: C19fan

The order for dropping the bomb came from a DemocRat.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


52 posted on 05/27/2016 4:41:04 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
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To: C19fan

Yes, death did, indeed, fall from the sky.

On December 7, 1941.

What ensued must be laid at Japan’s door.

Deal with it.


53 posted on 05/27/2016 4:41:24 AM PDT by Jack Hammer ( - in ANY sense - a woman.)
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To: mrs. a
Pearl Harbor?

And the Bataan Death March

between 1937 and 1945, the Japanese military murdered from nearly 3 to over 10 million people, most likely 6 million Chinese, Koreans, Malaysians, Indonesians, Filipinos and Indochinese, among others, including Western prisoners of war.

In Southeast Asia, the Manila massacre of February 1945 resulted in the death of 100,000 civilians in the Philippines. It is estimated that at least one out of every 20 Filipinos died at the hands of the Japanese during the occupation

And on and on and on - they committed so many atrocities that it would have been possible to look at it as a service to the world to exterminate them.

54 posted on 05/27/2016 4:41:44 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: C19fan
Barack Obama on Friday paid tribute to the "silent cry" of the 140,000 people killed by the world's first atomic bomb attack and sought to renew attention in his unfulfilled vision of a world without nuclear weapons, as he became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima.

...thus showing that Obama has no clue about the culture of the Japanese, the people who believe that suicide is preferable to losing.

I look at atomic bombs not for their immediate effect, but for their long-lasting effect. They not only convinced the Japanese to stop fighting before countless more lives were lost, but they stopped the trend of wars becoming more and more deadly. Well, they at least arrested it for a while. Bill Clinton and Obama have been working to reverse that pause by giving North Korea and Iran, respectively, the means to develop nuclear bombs.

I honestly do not know why extreme leftist politicians get so many kudos for promoting peace, when they work so hard to make the world more dangerous and violent--not to mention their unfocused and nearly constant use of the military for ill-defined goals.

55 posted on 05/27/2016 4:43:24 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: C19fan

Ahem. Death fell from the sky at the K-T boundary. Wake me up when things change. Hint: Aerial Bombardment dates from the invention of the Hot Air Balloon. . .


56 posted on 05/27/2016 4:43:25 AM PDT by Salgak (Peace Through Superior Firepower. . . .)
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To: C19fan

Words can not express how much I hate and detest Barak Hussein Obama. He is a vile, stinking, abomination that Satan himself must have shat out in order to soil, and divide America.


57 posted on 05/27/2016 4:44:30 AM PDT by Jay Redhawk
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To: C19fan
unfulfilled vision of a world without nuclear weapons

It's pretty hard to disinvent technology.

Besides, we HAD a world without nuclear weapons until 1945. It got us two world wars, killing upwards of 75 million, and countless smaller wars. Is that the kind of world he dreams of?

It's typical liberal insanity, though -- blaming weapons instead of blaming evil people.

58 posted on 05/27/2016 4:44:57 AM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: C19fan

“Death fell from the sky and the world was changed,” ...
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That happened at Pearl Harbor, 12/7/41. It awoke the ‘sleeping giant’.

Saw TV Thursday from coverage in Japan. Indicated that museums in Tokyo and Nagasaki or Hiroshima had displays that blamed Americans for murdering their people. Totally, ignored all of the Koreans, Chinese and others that the Japanese military raped and murdered in their fanatic attempt to exert their rule on other people.

I guess they conveniently forgot how the US put MacArthur in charge of rebuilding their society and spent tons of money to help them to become a powerful capitalist country (until their recent economic descent).

Obama and his apology tours around the world is gagworthy and shameful, as he just continues to demean the USA!


59 posted on 05/27/2016 4:45:18 AM PDT by octex
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To: mrs. a

No, no...hes talking about himself.


60 posted on 05/27/2016 4:50:36 AM PDT by 556x45
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