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Obama Declines To Defend U.S. Bombing Of Hiroshima, Nagasaki
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| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 11/13/2009 5:06:12 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: kabar
There had been a rumor circulating that Barry would apologize for Hiro and Naga and describe the bombing as a “war crime.” I have absolutely no doubt this speech was under consideration at the WH.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
With every word that comes forth from this mealy little turd’s mouth, I miss great Presidents like Ronald Reagan that much more.
Hopefully, in 2012, we’ll have a President that actually loves his country and appreciates the pain and sacrifice that generations before him had to endure.
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posted on
11/13/2009 5:46:18 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Hope....Change...Soup Kitchens!)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
War crime? What then? Will we try Harry Truman in absentia? I can see Obama apologizing [he has already done as much when he said that the US was the only country ever to use nuclear weapons], but I seriously doubt that even the Messiah would ever call the bombings a war crime. Politically, he would be slitting his own throat.
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posted on
11/13/2009 5:48:16 AM PST
by
kabar
To: reagan_fanatic
The Greatest Generation has no historical meaning to him. History began with his election. Just ask him.
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posted on
11/13/2009 5:51:32 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Travis McGee
My family would probably not exist if Harry had not dropped the bombs.That is true for a large number of families, both American and Japanese.
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posted on
11/13/2009 5:55:23 AM PST
by
Bahbah
(Only dead fish go with the flow)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
C'mon Freepers, lighten up. As drones, we're supposed to be proud to be so hip to elect some inexperienced but oh-so-super-suave black dude as President.
/s
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posted on
11/13/2009 6:05:04 AM PST
by
kromike
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Hussein's 2009 world wide apology tour continues.
47
posted on
11/13/2009 6:06:41 AM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(I am tired of being PC. It's time for torches, pitchforks, tar, feathers and GUNS.)
To: kabar
It would endear him to his political base.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
More evidence that Barack Obama hates America.
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posted on
11/13/2009 6:09:37 AM PST
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
It's a good thing the reporter didn't ask him a question on the historical meaning of 9/11...
That would have been really embarassing!
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posted on
11/13/2009 6:12:04 AM PST
by
Gritty
(The Omnipresent Leader has traditionally been a characteristic feature of 3rd World dumps-Mark Steyn)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
"The Allied aim was to break Japanese resistance before an invasion became unavoidable. On 1 August 820 B29s unloaded 6,600 tons of explosive on five towns in North Kyushu. Five days later America's one, untested uranium bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima, Japan's eighth largest city, headquarters of the 2nd General Army and an important embarkation port. Some 720,000 leaflets warning that the city would be 'obliterated' had been dropped two days before. No notice was taken, partly because it was rumoured Truman's mother had once lived nearby, and it was thought that the city, being pretty, would be used by the Americans as an occupation centre...""Publicly, the Japanese government reaction was to send a protest to the world through the Swiss embassy. Having ignored international law for twenty years they now denounced 'the disregard of international law by the American government, particularly the brutality of the new land-mine used against Hiroshima.' Privately they summoned Nishina, head of their atomic programme, to Tokyo to demand whether the Hiroshima bomb was a genuine nuclear weapon and, if so, whether he could duplicate it within six months. This does not suggest that a single atomic weapon would have been decisive."
British Historian Paul Johnson - Modern Times - pg 425/426
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posted on
11/13/2009 6:12:30 AM PST
by
metesky
(My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Obamas audio book for Dreams from my Father http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI77cU3jsFs In the book, Obama gives details of the speech that we all saw on TV and know as the G Damn America speech. At 8min 42sec into the video, Obama reading Wright spoke of Sharpsville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and the State House
Obama is reading these words
then they go to the clip of Wright just before he gets ready to say G Damn America and he mentions Sharpsville and Hiroshima. Obama was there.
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posted on
11/13/2009 6:13:38 AM PST
by
anglian
To: governsleastgovernsbest
He had an easy out. It was the whales and dolphins fault.
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posted on
11/13/2009 6:19:14 AM PST
by
TADSLOS
(Prayers to our Fort Hood Soldiers and Families)
To: Travis McGee
My father and father-in-law were both in the Pacific in 1945. My family would probably not exist if Harry had not dropped the bombs.
My grandfather was based on the Aleutians and would have definitely been part of it as well ... so my father, me, brothers, my son and niece would be gone as well.
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posted on
11/13/2009 6:20:20 AM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Texas secession .... it's time to part ways peacefully.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
His political base cannot reelect him by themselves. The big story in NJ and VA was that the independents went overwhelming for the GOP unlike the 2008 election.
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posted on
11/13/2009 6:26:05 AM PST
by
kabar
To: Diogenesis
I suppose we ought to be relieved that he did not pause to blame the US for Pearl Harbor. In these dark days, it seems you must take comfort wherever you can.
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posted on
11/13/2009 6:27:25 AM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: Travis McGee
“My father and father-in-law were both in the Pacific in 1945.”
I had an uncle that was on the USS Mansfield DD-728 and was in the Japanese harbor when they (Japan) surrendered.
The yahoos that bemoan dropping the bombs never talk about numbers and deal only in emotion.
Here are some numbers.
Germany
Population: 69,623,000
Military deaths: 5,533,000
Civilian deaths: 840,000 to 2,800,000
Japan
Population: 71,380,000
Military deaths: 2,120,000
Civilian deaths: 580,000 2,700,000
United States
Military deaths: 416,800
I believe any objective analysis would have to conclude that military deaths, as well as both civilian and military deaths for Japan, would have been much higher if an invasion had been necessary.
As for the group that says Japan was on the verge of surrendering without an invasion, I say (in the words of Sherman Potter)... Horse Hockey.
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posted on
11/13/2009 6:30:12 AM PST
by
Peter Horry
(Those who aren't responsible always know best.)
To: Peter Horry
And don't forget Russian dead during the war. Close to 24 million total, of which 12-14 million were civilian. Those kinds of fatalities boggle the mind. Any way you look at it, the Russkies took the major hit.
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posted on
11/13/2009 6:36:21 AM PST
by
chimera
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Oh my gosh ... that was one of the worst political dodges in the history of the world. A non-answer. Then a classic redirect to Korea.
This man is pathetic.
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posted on
11/13/2009 6:42:51 AM PST
by
al_c
(http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
To: Travis McGee
My family would probably not exist if Harry had not dropped the bombs.My dad was training for the invasion of Japan. I'm thankful that the bombs were dropped.
There was a teachable moment here, and the "brilliant" constitutional law professor gagged on it. It's sheer intellectual dishonesty to focus on Hiroshima and Nagasaki without examining Japan's conduct from 12/7/1941 on.
The Bataan Death March, the Rape of Nanking, Manila...one can go on and on.
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posted on
11/13/2009 6:43:54 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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