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Obama, Abe remember Pearl Harbor dead in historic Arizona Memorial visit
Hono Star Bull ^ | Dec. 27 , 2016 | Star-Advertiser Staff

Posted on 12/27/2016 2:22:21 PM PST by LeoWindhorse

President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe laid wreaths aboard the Arizona Memorial to honor those killed in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

It was the first visit by a Japanese leader to the memorial.

The two leaders said nothing during their brief visit.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: japan; obama; pearlharbor
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To: ColdOne

Hugh the Scot to David Nakamura: Shut up,stupid.


21 posted on 12/27/2016 2:56:37 PM PST by Hugh the Scot ( Total War)
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To: LeoWindhorse

No jap should should ever be allowed anywhere near Pearl Harbor.

Nisei excepted, of course, but barely.


22 posted on 12/27/2016 2:56:43 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Hot Tabasco

Agree. He should have waited a year.

I also think we need to rethink the collective guilt over internment camps for the Japanese here. If they followed Shintoism, they believed the Emperor was god. Not having tens of thousands of potential subversive elements running around during war time was a necessary step. We should consider it well in the future.


23 posted on 12/27/2016 2:56:53 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Hot Tabasco
Of all the years that Obama has been in office, why now? Why not back on Dec. 7?


Obola isn't on a vacation in Hawaii on Dec. 7th.

Keep in mind he is the laziest Pres in history about to be surpassed by the hardest working in history.

The contrast will be surreal.

24 posted on 12/27/2016 2:57:10 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: LeoWindhorse

I half expected him to apologize for the shooting down of the attacking air planes and the sinking of the submarine on that day of infamy.


25 posted on 12/27/2016 2:57:56 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (???? My tag line dissappeared. ???)
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To: freedumb2003
Trump would have tossed that Jap’s ass into the harbor — “join your cowardly pilots Tojo Jr!”

(not really but what a great visual, eh?)

No, not a good visual at all........Why would you even say such a disgusting thing??????

Japan happens to be one of our best allies and we're joined at the hip in both technology and commerce.

26 posted on 12/27/2016 2:58:11 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: LeoWindhorse

Frankly, I don’t like these years-later, generations-later “apologies” (yes, I realize Abe didn’t officially apologize, but the theme of the visit was the same). War is war, and it’s fought in the time it’s fought — why would anyone 50, 100, 1000 years later presume to apologize for those who did it? Am I wrong? IDK, I just see it like “reparations”.


27 posted on 12/27/2016 3:04:01 PM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

I love Japan and the Japanese people. The Japan of today has nothing to do with Imperial Japan just as the American people of today have nothing to do with slavery.

Having said that I didn’t watch today’s ceremony as I refuse to watch or listen to the worst President in American history, the traitor Barack Hussein Obama.


28 posted on 12/27/2016 3:08:30 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: onedoug
No jap should should ever be allowed anywhere near Pearl Harbor.

You would have a coronary during RIMPAC exercises. Japanese submarine and surface warships come streaming into the harbor. Their sailors proudly line the decks in white ubiforms.

29 posted on 12/27/2016 3:17:20 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: onedoug
No jap should should ever be allowed anywhere near Pearl Harbor.

That's just infantile; if there's a single example of a self-centered culture being irrevocably smashed beyond recovery by a superior culture in the history of this world, Japan is it.

30 posted on 12/27/2016 3:19:47 PM PST by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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To: TTFlyer

yes , I have to admit , I tend to love the Japanese of today also . Especially cute Japanese ladies . I meet Japanese every day in the course of my work . They are always polite and easy going . What a change from the banzai killers of yesteryear ....I am learning to speak a little Japanese . They love that


31 posted on 12/27/2016 3:24:09 PM PST by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: LeoWindhorse

I am quite pleased that the Japanese are our allies now. The US never faced tougher individual foes. As far as apologies go, meh, Abe didn’t attack us nor did any current Japanese official. Save the apologies for the bedwetters of the left.

I’d be very reassured in battle if the Japanese were guarding my flank. Put the Israelis on the other side. We’d be invinceable.


32 posted on 12/27/2016 3:34:09 PM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost, like tears in rain.)
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To: LeoWindhorse
The two leaders said nothing during their brief visit.

All Obama would have wanted to say is, "They had it coming."

33 posted on 12/27/2016 3:49:00 PM PST by American Quilter (Trump wins Electoral College--Dems haven't been this mad since the Republicans freed the slaves!)
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To: Seruzawa
I’d be very reassured in battle if the Japanese were guarding my flank. Put the Israelis on the other side. We’d be invinceable.

Amen! I'd be glad to know they were fighting with us.

34 posted on 12/27/2016 3:51:16 PM PST by American Quilter (Trump wins Electoral College--Dems haven't been this mad since the Republicans freed the slaves!)
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To: lodi90

It was a sneak attack to be sure. But, the attack was to follow after Japan’s declaration of war on the US.


35 posted on 12/27/2016 3:51:17 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: LeoWindhorse

Ditto


36 posted on 12/27/2016 3:53:51 PM PST by Bigg Red (To Thee, O Lord, I lift my soul. Thank you for saving our Republic.)
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To: max americana

Yep


37 posted on 12/27/2016 3:54:58 PM PST by Bigg Red (To Thee, O Lord, I lift my soul. Thank you for saving our Republic.)
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To: eyedigress

“Keep in mind he is the laziest Pres in history about to be surpassed by the hardest working in history.”

There have been some incredibly hard working Presidents.

Washington - Everything he did set a precedent. He recognized the issue and rose to the challenge. No doubt he agonized over every decision.

Madison - fought a war on US soil.

Polk - destroyed his health in 4 years. Mexican War and huge stress due to political intrigue.

Lincoln - Civil War. Another who destroyed his health working nearly 24/7.

Roosevelt - Great Depression followed by global war. The stress of the job no doubt cut his life short.

Johnson - Civil Rights, Great Society, and Vietnam. Another one who lost years of life due to the stress.

Nixon - Vietnam War diplomacy, nuclear treaties with Russian, opening China, impeachment by an incredibly hostile Congress aided by the national media. One of the hardest working presidents.

However, hard work does not necessarily translate to success as Johnson and Nixon prove.

Calling Trump the hardest working president before he is inaugurated is like awarding Obama a Nobel Peace prize at the beginning of his first term. Let’s see what happens.


38 posted on 12/27/2016 4:01:07 PM PST by Soul of the South (Tomorrow is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: TTFlyer

The Joint Base Ceremony on C-SPAN was lovely.

A beautiful tribute. Fitting. God Bless America.


39 posted on 12/27/2016 4:06:02 PM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder")
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To: papertyger; doorgunner69

I’m sure their Chinese and Korean comfort women - of which the japs have never admitted - would be glad to hear you say that that to them.

And them coming in in their dress whites, isn’t that just special.


40 posted on 12/27/2016 4:09:47 PM PST by onedoug
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