Japan: Trump must declare Hiroshima a ‘war crime’

The People's Daily Morning Star ^ | May 27, 2017

[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 Truman’s 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.

[2ndDivisionVet]

How does one say FOAD in Japanese? Those bombs saved my father's life.

[ColdOne]

I was surprised obama didn’t do this.

[Scrambler Bob]

1 Pearl Harbor

2 Protection from Norks

[ColdOne]

Pearl Harbor!

[Bringbackthedraft]

Nanjing,Nanjing, Nanjing! First!!!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“This indiscriminate mass killing should not be forgiven, because it was a crime against humanity,”

Nanjing for starters.

[Cboldt]

This demand comes from “Japan” just as much as a demand from BLM comes from the US government. More of the usual noise.

[dfwgator]

Not only “No”.....but “HELL NO!”

[umgud]

Mine too.

[dfwgator]

Unit 731.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

If they don’t like our peaches, DON’T SHAKE OUR TREE!

[Vision]

No. And the Batan Death March was a war crime, let the Japs apologize for that.

[AndyTheBear]

JAPANESE peace campaigners have written to US President Donald Trump urging him to declare the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings a war crime

And all this time I thought Pearl Harbor happened before they did.

[MagUSNRET]

I went through the Hiroshima memorial and with the headphones, you have never heard suck liberal hate America BS......THEN I read comments in the guest book.....to which I signed my name with the comment “Remember Pearl Harbor and Bataan!!”

[Nifster]

What a bunch of loons. I suppose attacking without a declaration of war isn’t a war crime

[dainbramaged]

Those bombs saved my father's life.
Mine too, and President Trump isn't about to apologize.

[blueunicorn6]

“Japanese peace campaigners”

We’re still at war with Japan?

[donozark]

Wake Island was a war crime as well. I can think of many others.

[Morpheus2009]

They most likely saved millions of Japanese lives overall considering how much of a Massacre we would have carried out with a full invasion, plus the suicidal warriors. Etc.

[MUDDOG]