Posted on 05/10/2016 6:09:54 AM PDT by reaganaut1
President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima later this month, the White House announced Tuesday.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by atomic bombs the U.S. dropped on the Japanese cities in 1945 during World War II. Obama will be the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima.
He is scheduled to travel to Vietnam and Japan from May 21 through May 28 on his 10th trip to Asia, where he is expected to highlight America’s commitment to increase diplomatic, economic and security engagement with Asian nations and their people. The White House said Obama will participate in his final G-7 Summit when he visits Japan.
“The President and Prime Minister Abe will meet bilaterally to further advance the U.S.-Japan alliance, including our cooperation on economic and security issues as well as a host of global challenges,” the White House said in a statement. “Finally, the President will make an historic visit to Hiroshima with Prime Minister Abe to highlight his continued commitment to pursuing the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons." Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said late May is the appropriate time for Obama to visit the city and shrine.
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I’m glad we vaporized their Tojo arses because my dad was training for an invasion of the Jap mainland at the time.
He’s just checking off another date on his American Outrage Calendar.
He’s committed to one anti-American outrage a day until he’s out of office.
A different generation of Japanese bombed us.
I'll bet he does apologize. Maybe even say we owe them....
“and to apologize for America winning WWII.”
he’s already apologized for America winning the Cold War (WWIII)
The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion that, contrary to the order of human events, they will forever keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms with which the history of every other nation abounds. There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.Obama seems to be one of those leaders who cries “Peace, peace, when there is no peace”; such leaders have abounded throughout history.
Of course. And massive suffering while they died from a years long blockade of the islands and constant bombing. The islands would have been decimated. Not just two cities but the whole island chain.
Instead, the Japanese turned it around and are a major player in the world producing some of the best cars, electronics, etc. A very positive story that was a direct result from the use of the two bombs.
Peace through strength, so don’t elect limp wristed commies like Obama.
“Visit Tehran Obama, you jack wagon”.
A Tehran Homecoming for the inseparable (insufferable?) 00bomma and his Svengali Valerie Jarett?
I'm sure the irony is lost on odungo.
I’m sure he believes it as much as he believed “If you like your doctor” et cetera.
this is truly Orwellian.
obama has armed our enemies with nukes.
Now Reagan....there’s a man who made the world less nuclear than before he took office.
Insane times we are living in.
No, Bambi wants America to be nuke free.
He doesn’t give a damn that Russia is testing an ICBM capable of carrying 12 warheads.
It is actually a threatening tour as an agent of iran to bolster trade and economic influence among Asian countries and Tehran, or else...........
Toss Norks in there too.
In related news, Russia just announced that it is building a massive new ICBM.
The idiot doesn’t realize that the invasion of Japan would have made Iwo look like a cake walk.
I hope that POS Øbama doesnt return . . .
I hope Trump apologizes for Obama.
I want someone to apologize for Obama while Obama is alive.
He's never heard of Iwo, nor Okinawa. He doesn't know it's corps man, silent 'p', not corpseman. He's concerned about the Austrian they speak in Austria, the last of the fifty-seven States, and that the UK and Argentina don't fight over The Maldives again. He thinks we have referees in baseball, and that the White Sox play at Kaminsky Park. These are just a few of his bungles that the MSM has overlooked. And his pet peeve is people who don't realize they're lucky (a quote from his address at Howard on Sunday). FUBO!!!!
Since Hussein has cleared the way for Iran to get nukes, where will some future President have to visit?
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