P_resident Obama owes the American people an apology

Fox News.com ^ | June 1, 2016 | Wayne Allyn Root

[Kaslin]

I was honored to be invited to appear as a guest on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” last Friday. On the show I was asked about Obama’s “apology tour” visit to Japan. I was asked if he should have visited Hiroshima- the site of the first U.S. nuclear attack that led to Japan's surrender during World War II. I was asked, “Was it appropriate?”

I responded to host Bill Maher on the show that I’m not a fan of apologies, or in this case the appearance of an apology -- especially if you’re apologizing for responding to something terrible the other guy did. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. They started the war, we merely ended it. They committed terrible atrocities against our soldiers and American POW’s throughout the war.

My father David Root served in the South Pacific. He fought at Okinawa -- the bloodiest battle of World War II. He saw firsthand the atrocities of the Japanese.

Our nuclear bombs didn’t just take lives. They saved many American (and ironically, Japanese) lives. Experts estimated the invasion of Japan would have cost at least 1,000,000 lives. Those atomic bombs actually saved far more lives than they cost. One of them might have been my father.

[rightwingcrazy]

Not going to happen. He only apologizes for others, never for himself.

[MuttTheHoople]

another thing nobody talks about. The soviet Union declared war on Japan on August 8, 1945. If we'd have invaded Japan, we'd have also had had the Soviets as our allies on the invasion.

However, the atomic bombs stopped that. Where we had North and South Korea, North and South Vietnam, East and West Germany, we would've had North and South Japan.

[Twinkie]

A liar’s apology ain’t worth a spit.

[BroJoeK]

Operation Downfall was the planned invasion of Japan.
It called for 6 million allied troops (5 million of them US), expected to face 35 million Japanese military and civilian militia.
Based on Okinawa results, Allied deaths would be 300,000 and total casualties over two million.
Japanese deaths would be up to ten million, or at whatever point their leadership believed surrender would not sacrifice the nation’s honor.
Ten percent was the number considered necessary.

Thankfully, the A-bombs made those unnecessary.

[BroJoeK]

Operation Downfall was the planned invasion of Japan.
It called for 6 million allied troops (5 million of them US), expected to face 35 million Japanese military and civilian militia.
Based on Okinawa results, Allied deaths would be 300,000 and total casualties over two million.
Japanese deaths would be up to ten million, or at whatever point their leadership believed surrender would not sacrifice the nation’s honor.
Ten percent was the number considered necessary.

Thankfully, the A-bombs made those unnecessary.

[Barkeep99]

My uncle had just done Okinawa and was on a ship bound for the mainland invasion of Japan when Bombs 1 &2 went off, ending the war. He promises me, no one on any of those ships was ever sorry we had used this new weapon to end the war.