Nakagawa calls U.S. A-bombing of Japan 'an inexcusable crime'

AP ^ | 12/18/06

[sushiman]

Shoichi Nakagawa, a senior Liberal Democratic Party politician has called the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in 1945 a crime and inexcusable.

Nakagawa, policy chief of the ruling LDP, made the comments after visiting the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, a ruling party official said.

[Right Angler]

His people sowed the wind and they reaped the whirlwind. Tough roentgens, Hirohito.

[Trampled by Lambs]

Besides, If it wasn't for all that radiation, the world would be without...

[ishabibble]

Japan: Well behaved since 1945

[litehaus]

And so was Pearl Harbor, and Baatan, and the Japanese invasion of the Phillipines, etc.

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[LachlanMinnesota]

The rape of Nanking...

[RobRoy]

In other news, the French think they were screwed in the Louisiana Purchase, and I understand that some of the beads used to purchase Long Island were fake.

[Vigilanteman]

The real crime is that they were willing to destroy their next generation in order to maintain control of political power, sort of like Liberal Democrats today.

I've talked to more than a few Japanese who were children during the war. One, who I consider one of my dearest friends, was drafted and was training as a kamikaze pilot when the war ended.

Almost to a person, they are grateful that the war ended sooner rather than later because many of them would not have survived a conventional invasion and protracted war.

Japan has been a good friend and Ally of the United States since the war ended. They have been far more faithful than many of our other allies. The occasional idiot who spouts this anti-American nonsense is rarer on the Japanese side of the Pacific than on our side.

[DTogo]

Japan has been a good friend and Ally of the United States since the war ended. They have been far more faithful than many of our other allies. The occasional idiot who spouts this anti-American nonsense is rarer on the Japanese side of the Pacific than on our side.

Well said!

[COEXERJ145]

"To avert a vast, indefinite butchery [the invasion], to bring the war to an end, give peace to the world, to lay healing hands upon its tortured peoples … at the cost of a few explosions, seemed after all our toils and perils, a miracle of deliverance." -Winston Churchill

[Grut]

...by the end of the war, flames had totally or partially consumed 63 Japanese cities, killing half a million people and leaving eight million homeless.

IIRC, in "Mission With Lemay", Lemay speculated that if the 20th AF hadn't run out of incendaries in May/June 1945, more fire raids could have forced a Japanese surrender before the atomic bomb was available. Interesting.

[tomnbeverly]

Wow big deal the liberals in the U.S. think that launching a War on terror is an inexcusable crime by Bush... Who cares anymore... The Dems control Congress... in 08 they will get the White House and then what... Well after the radiation settles from the dirty bomb attacks in the U.S. then we will see how many times they can say we failed to imagine the threat or its all Bush's fault if only he didn't get us in to Iraq...

[dfwgator]

thanks to the A-bomb, Japan is the most peaceful, productive, and successful country in the world.

And because of Japanese actions, her victims (China and North Korea) paid a severe price by ultimately having murderous Communist regimes imposed on them, directly as a result of Japanese occupation.

[montag813]

I wish we would commit some of these "inexcusable crimes" in Iraq, instead of this door-to-door horseshit.

[Snoopers-868th]

My sentiments exactly. Now they need to start teaching what they really did to their own people. I don't believe all the politically correct crap--they still hate us and would turn on us in a heartbeat. Just like China, Russia and all the others.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Nakagawa-san, you seem to have forgotten one of the most important lessons every child should learn early in life.

If you poke the sleeping dog in the eye, he is going to bite you. And you will have earned your scars.

Remember that so you don't earn any other scars.

[WideGlide]

Shoichi Nakagawa, a senior Liberal Democratic Party politician has called the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in 1945 a crime and inexcusable.

Japanese know much about inexcusable warcrimes. But in this case Shoichi doesn't know jack.

[rlmorel]

Actually, I think you have the right numbers in the wrong places!

I read something recently, if I recall correctly, 12% of the POW's in Germany died in captivity, whereas something like 35% of POW's held by Japan lost their lives. in captivity.

[Jack Hammer]

Farcical. Period.

[JimRed]

And it saved lots of Japanese lives by avoiding a hostile invasion...

I don't care about the Japanese lives; it saved countless American lives which would have been lost in an invasion.

[rlmorel]

Easy there! As a third party reading it, it didn't seem like he was questioning you at all...I think you are both on the same side here. I think he was simply "throwing some wood on your fire" (agreeing with you)