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Brian Williams: U.S. Is ‘The Only Nation to Have Used’ Nuclear Weapons ‘In Anger’
newsbusters.org ^ | May 27, 2016 | Curtis Houck

Posted on 05/27/2016 7:15:12 PM PDT by PROCON

MSNBC breaking news host and ex-NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams was allowed out on MSNBC’s airwaves early Friday afternoon to discuss President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima so he could resurrect a taped report that aired in 2005 on the 60th anniversary of the nuclear bomb’s dropping on the Japanese city.

In the course of discussing the event afterward, though, Williams threw some shade in the direction of the U.S. military and then-President Harry Truman by complaining that “we’re the only nation to have used them in anger” against the horrifying Axis Powers member.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: apologytour; atombomb; brianwilliams; hiroshima; japan; obama; ww2; wwii
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To: DennisR

Eventually they will justify Pearl Harbor with something like this:

Japan only attacked Pearl Harbor, because the racist Americans supported British Colonialism in Asia.


41 posted on 05/27/2016 8:06:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: PROCON
"Brian Williams: U.S. Is ‘The Only Nation to Have Used’ Nuclear Weapons ‘In Anger’"

Guys really though, Brian Williams would know, after all he was the tail gunner on the Enola Gay...

Just ask him...

42 posted on 05/27/2016 8:08:53 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: PROCON

Anger? In a time of war, perhaps. It wasn’t because of anger.


43 posted on 05/27/2016 8:11:53 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: dfwgator

Ummmmm, actually it’s worse than that. Millenniums think the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor.


44 posted on 05/27/2016 8:14:18 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It wastes time.)
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To: HandyDandy
Ummmmm, actually it’s worse than that. Millenniums think the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor.

It's True! Here's the proof!


45 posted on 05/27/2016 8:17:55 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

hell, a lot of “Millenials” probably think that Pearl Harbor was a false flag operation conducted by evil capitalists....


46 posted on 05/27/2016 8:20:11 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary Clinton: Hamas puts its rockets and ammo in schools and hospitals because Gaza is small)
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To: PROCON
EF** him. Watch some of the combat/amateur footage coming out of Syria. The Russians are using low level nukes against ISIS. We are not the only users of nukes.
47 posted on 05/27/2016 8:25:10 PM PDT by Polynikes ( Hakkaa palle)
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To: faithhopecharity

Don’t you know? In war you are supposed to have warm and fuzzy feelings for the enemy, that’s what all good liberals do.

If it’s absolutely necessary to kill them, you should immediately apologize and feel really bad about it.


48 posted on 05/27/2016 8:29:57 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: HandyDandy

49 posted on 05/27/2016 8:32:15 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: PROCON
“we’re the only nation to have used them in anger”


The crew of the Enola Gay after dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (1945)

50 posted on 05/27/2016 8:35:31 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Boogieman

Yes. Apparently they think life is a children’s game ( too much drugs and too little real learning — blame the public screwls and lack of parenting?)


51 posted on 05/27/2016 8:51:08 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Brian Williams’ military service:

IF .( 0 ) ... THEN (null)
ELSE ... (journalist)

Brian Williams’ net worth:

IF ‘lie’ ... THEN ‘40,000,000 and NBC’
ELSE ... MSNBC


52 posted on 05/27/2016 8:54:11 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: PROCON

Used in anger?

Yeah, that attack on Hawaii and Pearl Harbor made a lot of people angry.

Then, there was the treatment of many prisoners of war held by the Japanese. The Japanese were not very nice.

If Japan or Hitler had managed to develop the atomic bomb first, is there really any doubt they would have used it?


53 posted on 05/27/2016 9:04:44 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: PROCON

25 years ago I sat across the aisle from a gentleman who was on a ship awaiting orders to be part of the first invasion of mainland Japan in the summer of 1945. He and the others knew it was a suicide mission. He would start crying when the issue of not dropping the bomb was brought up since the bomb saved his life. He felt depressed that there were idiots would prefer that he had died for political correctness.


54 posted on 05/27/2016 9:06:47 PM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: PROCON

55 posted on 05/27/2016 9:19:49 PM PDT by RC one
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Oh crap!!-the msm have rolled that idiot out again? It obvious the ‘timeout didn’t make bw any less stupid.


56 posted on 05/27/2016 9:21:42 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: PROCON

Not just anger but righteous anger over the brutality of the Japanese at Pearl Harbor and the rest of the war...


57 posted on 05/27/2016 9:28:06 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: PROCON

Brian Williams sez, “So there I was, riding a bomb casing, doing a bit part as a favor in a little movie called Dr. Strangelove”


58 posted on 05/27/2016 9:29:25 PM PDT by BloodScarletMinnesota
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To: PROCON

I am surprised these Lefty nitwits are not obsessed at the fire bombing of Dresden. That bombing caused people to boil alive on the super heated streets. An estimated, 35,000 to 135,000 civilians died from the bombings. Of course, the Germans sent the V1 buzz bombs and V2 rockets into Britain killing 6,184 innocent civilians and injuring 17,981. The Dresden bombings were a retaliation to the V weapons attacks.


59 posted on 05/28/2016 2:08:12 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: PROCON

Sorry Newsbusters, but this is a perfectly appropriate use of “in anger” (as opposed to in practice or in a test).


60 posted on 05/28/2016 2:30:43 AM PDT by semimojo
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