Posted on 01/27/2009 5:16:40 AM PST by atomic conspiracy
Former President George W. Bush said during an ABC interview aired in December that the "biggest regret" of his presidency was the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, for which the U.S. waged the war. His statement virtually acknowledges it was a war without a cause.
It's too late for regrets, but what about Japan? The Japanese government did support the U.S.-led war on Iraq, but it has now fallen silent as if the war is someone else's affair. Are we simply going to evade the issue by saying it was a decision by former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi?
If we are to maintain such an ambiguous attitude, we might as well accept the rise of people in the future who would say it was right for Japan to support the Iraq War. It is extremely important to determine how we perceive history.
Turning to President Barack Obama, I admire him for aiming to abolish nuclear weapons as the ultimate global goal, and I expect a lot from him. Because of this respect, I want him to change the U.S. belief that justifies the atomic bombings of Japan, which has been upheld by successive U.S. presidents.
Atomic bombs are not conventional weapons. Radioactive substances that penetrate into human bodies harm tissue cells. Damaged cells keep making damaged copies. Atomic bombs bring fear to numerous generations to follow.
Atomic bombs are diabolic weapons that should never have been used. I will keep saying this even after I go to the next world. Because they should not be used, they obviously should not be possessed in the first place.
If President Obama is to make a step forward over a mere "change" in the presidency, and is willing to push for nuclear abolition, he should first review the justification of the atomic bombings. (By Chikahiro Hiroiwa, Expert Senior Writer, Mainichi Shimbun)
He’s right. We should have instead used conventional weapons and killed millions of Japanese to win the war instead of using horrible nuclear weapons to bring the war to a quick end. Let’s put Harry Truman on trial!
The mentality of the author is clearly in question. It is an example of how removed from reality these people have become.
‘Atomic bombs are diabolic weapons that should never have been used. I will keep saying this even after I go to the next world. Because they should not be used, they obviously should not be possessed in the first place. ‘
Interesting this person didn’t have the guts to sign their name to this.
Its been estimated America would have realized at least One (1) Million casualties invading and conquoring Japan.
Its also been estimated the Japanese would have suffered seven to ten MILLION casualties.
The Atom Bomb saved MILLIONS OF LIVES.
Deal with it liberals, deal with it. Then again, whats human life to you guys anyway, right?
Oh, please. That was just a couple soldiers on a drunken bender. No one was killed, just a few people inconvenienced.
/sarcasm
War is horrible. There are no *good* weapons only effective ones.
OK, I have personally reviewed the justification of the use of atomic bombs in Japan and have found it totally acceptable.
Projected casualites:
US: 1,200,000 casualties, with 267,000 fatalities
Japanese: 5,000,000 to 10,000,000
'nuff said.
U.S. should review justification of atomic bombings of Japan........
If a foreign nuke ever exploded near a major US military base like Ft Bragg or FT Hood, many of these anti-nuclear activists who protest and weep EVERY Aug for Nagasaki would silently applaud the death of thousands of American soldiers.
In their twisted minds, the US deserves to be nuked out of social justice...
The naivity of this statement ignores factual history.
The theory for the bomb had been known since before the turn of the century.
The militarists in Japan would have continued the war AFTER the Nagasaki blast. Except for the intervention of the emperor himself, who the militarists also tried to kidnap and kill.
Over 1 million US casualties would have occured had we needed to invade.
The USSR would have invaded the northern islands and Japan would have been like Berlin through the Cold War years.
Anti-nuke protesters are a dime a dozen, and cannot be brought into reality. Nuclear weapons are the most dangerous, and those that would do US harm are set on getting them.
What is a grim subject like this without a joke?
A tenth grade history teacher is frustrated with her apathetic class. She decides to turn it into a game.
“Ok, class, I am going to give you a quote from history; you give me a name and a year for it. Ok? Ready?” (class stares blankly at her)
“First one is ‘Give me liberty or give me death!’”
All the kids sit there glassy-eyed except this little Japanese boy sitting at the front of the class. He raises his hand and snaps, “Patrick Henry, 1771!.”
“Good, excellent,” says the teacher. “The next one is ‘I have not yet begun to fight.’ Who said that and when did he say it?
Again, the American kids are clueless, but the Japanese youngster pipes right up, “John Paul Jones, 1778!”
This goes on for a while and the exasperated teacher throws in the towel, but not without a lecture, “You know, I’m ashamed of you young people who were born here. We have this young man from Japan, I happen to know he’s only lived here six months, and he literally knows more about your history than all of you put together!”
She turns to write something on the board and someone at the back of the room grumbles, “To hell with them Japanese!”
Enraged, the teacher spins around and demands, “Who said that? WHO SAID THAT!?”
An American kid calmly raises his hand and says, “Harry Truman, 1945.”
...AND SHUT UP!
I'm glad we decided to use nukes on Japan. They probably saved my father's life.
(chuckle)
The only reason this is being brought up and taken seriously in some quarters is because we don’t teach ‘history’ any more.
We teach revisionism.
LOL!
When did the mighty warriors of Japan turn into a bunch of weaklings?
The left never tires of telling the same lies over and over.
Saddam was in violation of the cease fire terms which ended the first Gulf War. Clinton lacked the courage to enforce those terms and applied only ineffectual half-meausres, consequently it was left to President Bush to act decisively. We had more than adequate "causis belli."
All you democrats can work it out. It was a democrat that ordered it.
We gotz Obama to deal with.
Ping!
several years ago I started to glance through my son's history text and was literally horrified by what I read as was my wife when I showed it to her-and I'm not a person who gets alarmed very easily. It appears that battle was lost long ago.
Let's keep it simple.
Drop Bomb #1.
Japan keeps fighting.
Guess it wasn't so bad if they kept fighting.
Drop Bomb #2.
Japan surrenders. Japan probably wondered how many more of these things do the Americans have? Let's quit while we can.
Bingo! Justification!
Also....
In 1999, the surplus of Purple Hearts that were struck in anticipation of the invansion of Japan was finally exhausted and the Defense Supply Center in Philadelphia entered into contracts with Graco Industries of Tomball, Texas, for the first large-scale production of Purple Hearts since World War II.
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