Posted on 03/17/2011 5:25:57 PM PDT by an amused spectator
2226: The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, quoting a senior official of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, said the US made the offer immediately after the disaster damaged Fukushima No 1 nuclear plant. According to the unnamed senior official, US support was based on dismantling the troubled reactors run by Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) some 250 km (155 miles) northeast of Tokyo. However, the government and TEPCO thought the cooling system could be restored by themselves, the report said.
Am I reading this right?
Our government demanded that the Japanese dismantle - that is, permanently remove - over five gigawatts of power in order to help them with a critical safety problem that had the potential to destroy 100 square miles of land and kill or injure thousands of people?
That as compensation for helping them we demanded that they cripple their electrical generating capacity on a permanent basis?
You have to be kidding me.
This is an extremely serious charge. If it's true it stands alone as grounds for impeachment and dismembering every single federal agency involved.
Perhaps this explains why the US Military and/or civilian authorities didn't stick a couple of big-ass generators on a transport plane and get them over there, restoring power to the reactors within hours of the incident and avoiding all of the serious radiation and physical damage at the plant.
This allegation is ridiculously incendiary and demands an immediate and complete Congressional investigation. Not only do the citizens of the United States deserve to know the truth (or falsity) of this charge (and who initiated it if it is false), but so do the Japanese people.
If this is how this man treats our friends - attempting to use a crisis threatening the lives of civilians to score a political point and advance his "green" agenda.....
I’m stunned.
He’s crapped on Poland, UK, Israel, Egypt, a South American ally, and now, if this is true, Japan. We will not have one single country in the world who will trust us when he’s done. If there are any left, now.
This needs to be investigated. There needs to be a group of Democrat and Republican Senators go into the oval office and tell him he’s resigning or they will spill every bean they have on him.
The US offer was apparently contingent on conditions from US Greenies in the Obobblehead administration, who wanted the reactors shut down permanently, which was also reported by The Yomiuri Shimbun.
I thought the US did provide generators, but they were not compatible with Japanese equipment. Is this article saying that was not the case? If he did do this, it just doesn’t surprise me as serious as it is. Has he gone Blago? That is, he’s so used to pulling this kind of crap that he doesn’t think there something wrong with it anymore, or that nobody’s watching or listening or cares?
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Obama is a disgusting person. A national embarrasment. A filthy lying commie community organizer.
This is OUTRAGOUS and makes Americans look like thugs. does anyone believe the Japanese will stand for butt ugly windmills destroying their beautiful country.
I am furious he would hold Japan hostage to some f-ing political agenda.
For what, so he can stop Nuke enegy in the U.S?
2012..please get here soon.
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（ ( 2011年3 月18日08時12分 12:08 minutes 18 March 2011 読売新聞） Yomiuri Shimbun)
Cash for clunkers.
Gold for Granny.
Freedom for freeloaders.
Justice for jackals.
Phones for po’folk.
No oil for no one.
Shoe soles for Jews’ souls.
Most everything for muslims.
Liberty for looters.
Air Security for Personal Assault.
Rights for Leftists.
Assistance for Anti-nukes.
Nothing for Nippon.
Vacations for VIPs.
And foie gras for.....’me and my people’ alone.
Drinks all around. After all, the dollar’s a dime a dozen!
You tell me.
Poor choices and taste by this administration, sure; as usual.
But how is it impeachable? I don't see much in the Constitution about being obligated with no strings to help another nation.
Look, I'm not defending the guy, but anymore anyone and everyone is dropping the "impeachment" rhetoric for something they feel is egregious and frankly this site is looking a bit kook for it.
Thanks for posting this. Sadly, I believe it.
He is a coward rat. He gives up and then has anger and jealousy against surviving brave people, and he grinds his ax. It’s typical of such piece of crap tin pot underachieving dictators.
Who asked for your opinion, n00b?
No! Not you, too, Arkasha! ;-)
They couldn't have beached a ship off the shore and run lines from it to the reactor plants?Heck, they could have flown the danged things from the states over to there in 12 hrs if necessary.
We're not talking about having to move the world here. We're talking about having to get enough power to get those water pumps back online so that they didn't have to spend the next 8-10 years in a radioactive cleanup. And where are the now? At the very start of an 8-10 year cleanup.
I've had all kinds of people tell me why it couldn't be done and hey, I'll grant you that I'm only a computer guy and not an engineer, but we're not talking about an engineering problem here. We're talking about a power problem here.
I think that it's a shame that the two most technologically advanced countries in the world, BAR NONE, allowed this to happen because they couldn't between the 2 of them, come up with an original solution.
It's disgraceful.
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_646444.html
I thought engineers were supposed to be genius's at mechanics. All of the engineers at Tepco, GE, US and Jap govs couldn't figure out how to splice in a bypasses that would allow electricity to flow from the generator to the pump until a more permanent solution could be come up with???
I guess I must be simplifying things by a factor of a million cause I can't see where it was an impossibile thing. Difficult yes, but impossible????
I understand he is going to Rio tomorow. Perhaps he can not be let back in?
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