Posted on 08/31/2008 9:45:22 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
TOKYO (AFP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set this week to be the highest-ranking sitting US official to visit the site of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, which bitterly divides opinion six decades later.
No sitting US president or vice president has ever paid respects to the dead of the US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, a sore point for many survivors in Japan.
Pelosi will travel to Hiroshima for a meeting of parliament speakers from the Group of Eight major industrial nations. Pelosi, who is second in line to the presidency, is a member of Barack Obama's Democratic Party.
On Tuesday, Pelosi and the other speakers will lay flowers at a memorial in Hiroshima, hear testimony from a bomb survivor and hold discussions on disarmament, according to Japanese officials.
Kota Kiya, who was four years old when the atomic bomb devastated his hometown, welcomed the visit but said he hoped the leaders of nuclear weapons states would come instead.
"We wish that top leaders would visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki while they are in power, at least once, to see the atrocity of the nuclear bombings," said Kiya, secretary general of the Hiroshima chapter of Hidankyo, the group of atomic bomb survivors.
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She a few weeks and 63 years too late.
Complete the tour, Nancy....go to Bataan, Nanking....
Great! Another dose of America-bashing! I can’t wait!
I’m going to bed now.
I can’t take this crap anymore...
I can’t wait to hear the Bug Eyed Moron prattle on some new blarney on this trip.
“Bittery divided” by no one that I know.
BTW: Anybody know the difference between “landmark” and “historical?” The bongers in the “media” have thrown me a curve with this one.
Well, that should turn out the WWII vote in November.
Keep it coming.
More from Tokyo-si Pelosi.
She’s going to apologize. She has to be the stupidest Speaker of the House ever. And yet she supports the murder of 40 million innocent Americans through abortion. What a lovely woman.
Nancy, we nuked them to end the war. Get over it.
There would not have been a Hiroshima if Obama was around to talk to the Japanese. Hell, there wouldn’t have even been a Pearl Harbor. /sarc
...Pearl Harbor...
Umm... She would be turd in line for the Presidency,
Ms. Palin will kick her botox/buttocks.
I can bet that the prime minister of japan has not gone to Pearl Harbor or Bataan or nangking or any of the numerous death camps throughout the south pacific.They made their history so they can damn well live with it.This woman is anti American pure and simple.
And the ones properly to blame would be the warhawk faction in the Japanese government. Nothing short of a nuking would make them see reason. Truman, et al., could see that.
sigh..not only did the bombings end the war..it also saved both allies and japanese lives in the process..wonder if nuncy is going to blame President Bush for this..
we should never apologize for this. There is no reason to. In fact, the two atomic bombs ended the war, and saved Japan millions of dead people who would have died in conventional attacks.
And to think a Democrat was commander-in-chief in ‘45.
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