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Obama to visit Hiroshima to promote nuke-free world
Politico ^ | May 10, 2016 | NOLAN D. MCCASKILL

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoasia; deathtoamerica; dhimmitude; hiroshima; iran; kimjongun; northkorea; nukefreeworld; obama; proliferation; rop; worldwar3
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To: reaganaut1

I’m glad we vaporized their Tojo arses because my dad was training for an invasion of the Jap mainland at the time.


21 posted on 05/10/2016 6:26:17 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: reaganaut1

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.


22 posted on 05/10/2016 6:27:22 AM PDT by cyclotic (Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.)
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To: reaganaut1
Nuke free world ain't going to happen.

A different generation of Japanese bombed us.

I'll bet he does apologize. Maybe even say we owe them....

23 posted on 05/10/2016 6:28:16 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: alternatives?
If I became president the first thing I would do is go around the world and apologize for Obama.
Don't be surprised if Trump does exactly that.
24 posted on 05/10/2016 6:30:16 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

“and to apologize for America winning WWII.”

he’s already apologized for America winning the Cold War (WWIII)


25 posted on 05/10/2016 6:30:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: Vaquero
Washington said something similar in his Fifth Annual Message to Congress:
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.
26 posted on 05/10/2016 6:30:51 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: DuncanWaring

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.


27 posted on 05/10/2016 6:31:56 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: reaganaut1

Peace through strength, so don’t elect limp wristed commies like Obama.


28 posted on 05/10/2016 6:32:08 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: blackdog

“Visit Tehran Obama, you jack wagon”.

A Tehran Homecoming for the inseparable (insufferable?) 00bomma and his Svengali Valerie Jarett?


29 posted on 05/10/2016 6:35:05 AM PDT by spiderpig (does whatever a SpiderPig does)
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To: reaganaut1
The man who is doing nothing to stop Iran and North Korea from getting nuclear weapons wants a "world without nuclear weapons"?

I'm sure the irony is lost on odungo.

30 posted on 05/10/2016 6:35:13 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: Rummyfan

I’m sure he believes it as much as he believed “If you like your doctor” et cetera.


31 posted on 05/10/2016 6:40:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: reaganaut1

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.


32 posted on 05/10/2016 6:45:30 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: reaganaut1

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.


33 posted on 05/10/2016 6:46:48 AM PDT by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: spiderpig
He is visiting Japan to sell the soon to be power of the rising nuclear islam. It's how islam speaks.

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.

34 posted on 05/10/2016 6:47:42 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: reaganaut1

In related news, Russia just announced that it is building a massive new ICBM.


35 posted on 05/10/2016 6:54:28 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: reaganaut1

The idiot doesn’t realize that the invasion of Japan would have made Iwo look like a cake walk.


36 posted on 05/10/2016 6:56:18 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Socialists are just communists in their larval stage.)
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To: reaganaut1

I hope that POS Øbama doesnt return . . .


37 posted on 05/10/2016 7:03:25 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: oh8eleven

I hope Trump apologizes for Obama.

I want someone to apologize for Obama while Obama is alive.


38 posted on 05/10/2016 7:10:16 AM PDT by alternatives? (Cruz or Trump)
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To: CrazyIvan
The idiot doesn’t realize that the invasion of Japan would have made Iwo look like a cake walk.

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!!!!

39 posted on 05/10/2016 7:15:11 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: reaganaut1
Obama to visit Hiroshima to promote nuke-free world

Since Hussein has cleared the way for Iran to get nukes, where will some future President have to visit?

40 posted on 05/10/2016 7:17:41 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (0bama's gift to Michelle [aka Michael] - Men in Women's bathrooms.)
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