Posted on 05/26/2017 4:23:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
JAPANESE peace campaigners have written to US President Donald Trump urging him to declare the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings a war crime.
A copy of the letter from the Society for Requiring the Admission of Historic Responsibility of the US Government for Dropping Atomic Bombs on Japan, dated today was sent to the Morning Star.
This indiscriminate mass killing should not be forgiven, because it was a crime against humanity, it read, pointing to the 340,000 deaths from the bombings on August 6 and 9 in 1945.
But Washington continues to justify the atrocities with the excuse that they hastened the end of the protracted war and saved lives.
The group said that former US president Harry Trumans claim after ordering the bombing that a million US troops would have died invading Japan was false.
It said General Douglas MacArthur and other commanders estimated a maximum of 66,000 casualties, a quarter of them fatal.
They must be taking a cue from the Arabs who declared war on Israel, lost, but now want the land they lost (West Bank, Golan Heights, etc) returned because it is being illegally occupied.
Only if we do it again.
5.56mm
They should also count their blessings that we didn't drop more A bombs and exterminate them all.
Unit 731 was worse than the Nazis for sheer horror, Nanking, Kempeitai, comfort women of Korea enslaved, Bataan Death March, Hell Ships for POWs, use of POWs as slaves in mines. The Chichijima incident where Japs cannibalized POWs. The murder of the Wake island defenders.
All of those are war crimes.
Trump should remind them we still have Enola Gay laying around in a museum, in fantastic condition. We can dust her off anytime you feel froggy.
They should be more concerned about the present(Fukushima)than the past.
Nope. Not a war crime. They ended the war without taking years and millions of casualties to defeat Japan.
Go eff off japan. We frigging rebuilt your ass and you pull this crap.
And apologize for “The Rape of Nanking “, Unit 781 (probably have that number wrong!) that did the medical experiments on captured American airmen & Chinese civilians, POW Camps that had a higher mortality rate then NAZI Concentration Camps, - I could go on!
ESAD
Japan itself was one YUGE war crime before August 1945 and we (well, our government anyway) forgave them without an apology.
My grandfathers life.
Society for Requiring the Admission of Historic Responsibility of the US Government for Dropping Atomic Bombs on Japan
SRAHRUSGDABJ is not Japan anymore than the ACLU is America.
The ‘Society for Requiring the Admission of Historic Responsibility of the US Government for Dropping Atomic Bombs on Japan’ now equals ‘Japan’?
LOL!
Slurp my butt, Tojo.
We’ll do that about the same time you admit that the Rape of Nanking was the worst war crime of the war.
Neither the Hiroshima nor Nagasaki nuclear bombing was a “crime”. Invading Japan would have cost hundreds of thousands of US casualties, and millions of Japanese casualties - far more than the bombings cost.
WW2 was total war, and civilian casualties were simply part of the equation. The Japanese were ruthless butchers for the most part, and if Japan could have landed atomic bombs on the US it would have done so without hesitation. Japan certainly slaughtered countless civilians with no compunction.
The nuclear bombing of Japan was a regrettable necessity - nothing more.
It’s not Japan demanding anything.
Bunch of street filth given publicity by a media which hate the U.S. as much as they.
The Society for Requiring the Admission of Historic Responsibility of the US Government for Dropping Atomic Bombs on Japan now equals Japan?
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That’s what I was thinking. VERY deceptive headline.
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