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Hiroshima Locals Criticize U.S. Lawmaker Over A-Bomb Remark About Gaza
Japan Today ^

Posted on 04/10/2024 8:04:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A group in Hiroshima opposed to nuclear weapons on Wednesday criticized a U.S. lawmaker's remarks on the use of an atomic bomb as a metaphor describing a way to end the prolonged conflict in the Gaza Strip.

The Hiroshima Congress against A- and H-Bombs sent a letter to Republican congressman Tim Walberg and demanded he retract his March 25 remarks calling for an end to the conflict in the Palestinian enclave "like Nagasaki and Hiroshima" to "get it over quick."

"It is extremely inappropriate to mention Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a metaphor for swiftly ending a war," the antinuclear group said. Both cities were devastated by the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing.

"We are disappointed about the ignorance and insensitiveness to the suffering and misery caused by the atomic bombings," it wrote, calling on the Michigan lawmaker to visit the two Japanese cities and talk with atomic bomb survivors.

Tadatoshi Akiba, head of the group and a former Hiroshima mayor, told a press conference that a "widely prevailing U.S. public opinion" that the nuclear bombings hastened Japan's surrender and the end of World War II should be changed.

Walberg's remarks at a local town hall meeting went viral after the video circulated on social media, drawing criticism from Democrats in the United States and Japan's main opposition, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, among others.

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa told a news conference last week that there is "no need at this moment" for Tokyo to lodge a protest against the remarks.

Kenta Izumi, chief of the CDPJ, has said it is "unbelievable" that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, whose constituency as a lawmaker is in Hiroshima, has not shown his view on the issue.

In Gaza, the Israeli military has been fighting against Hamas since the Palestinian militant group launched a surprise attack on southern Israel on Oct 7.


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It's not a very good metaphor.
1 posted on 04/10/2024 8:04:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

And Japan was not a very good neighbor to bomb Pearl Harbor.

Worse, they continued fighting when they knew they had lost the war.


2 posted on 04/10/2024 8:09:16 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane
Well, that was the U.S. fault. Churchill duped FDR. The U.S. allowed the USSR to not declare war on Japan until three months after VE Day. And Japan surrendered the second Russia invaded them.

FDR should have demanded that Russia declare war on Japan immediately. The war in Asia would have ended a lot sooner.

3 posted on 04/10/2024 8:17:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: ladyjane

If Israel nuked Gaza, they would be harming themselves.


4 posted on 04/10/2024 8:18:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Atomic Cocktail

It's the drink that you don't pour
Now when you take one sip, you won't need anymore
You're small as a beetle or big as a whale
BOOM, atomic cocktail

It falls and splashes all around the place
When you see it coming, just grab your suitcase
It'll send you through the sky like airmail
BOOM, atomic cocktail

You push a button, turn the dial
Your work is done for miles and miles
When it hits, it's bound to shake
Because it feels just like an earthquake

That's the drink that you don't pour
When you take one sip, you won't need anymore
You're small as a beetle or big as a whale
BOOM, atomic cocktail

5 posted on 04/10/2024 8:19:12 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: ladyjane

Many more Japinise would have died.


6 posted on 04/10/2024 8:19:21 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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To: nickcarraway

Thank God for Hiroshima. Thank you President Truman.


7 posted on 04/10/2024 8:20:10 PM PDT by nwrep
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It's a good metaphor. If the Japs can't stand the heat, they better stay out of the kitchen.

8 posted on 04/10/2024 8:22:12 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: nickcarraway

Hiroshima and Nagasaki taught Japanese that they should surrender and never start wars again.

Nukes worked.

ham ass needs to learn the same lesson, one way or another.


9 posted on 04/10/2024 8:22:52 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (DEI = Didn't Earn It!)
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To: nwrep

It didn’t end the war. You are okay with Churchill tricking FDR into costing many more U.S. lives?


10 posted on 04/10/2024 8:23:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
"It is extremely inappropriate to mention Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a metaphor for swiftly ending a war,"

Nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki swiftly ended a war that Japan started.

I fail to see the problem here ... maybe the "antinuclear" blabbermouths have guilty consciences ...

11 posted on 04/10/2024 8:24:03 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Uncle Miltie

That’s a bunch of anti-U.S. nonsense. And Hiroshima and Nagasaki taught Russia a lesson.


12 posted on 04/10/2024 8:24:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I think it’s the perfect metaphor. Are you familiar with Operation Starvation? Had not the A bombs ended the war, tens of millions of Japanese would have starved to death. Granted, Bibi’s plan only calls for starving 1 1/2 million but the goal is the same.


13 posted on 04/10/2024 8:26:46 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Uncle Miltie

You need to study WWII history. The U.S. did far more damage to Japan through conventional bombing. We bombed almost every city except a few in the North and three historical ones into complete rubble.


14 posted on 04/10/2024 8:27:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t see any contradiction in my statement and your facts. All are true.


15 posted on 04/10/2024 8:29:20 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (DEI = Didn't Earn It!)
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To: hardspunned
The Russians invading ended the war. The U.S. had already bombed Japan into submission, and they were going to starve.

FDR never should have allowed Russia to be given a pass on declaring war on Japan.

16 posted on 04/10/2024 8:29:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: cowboyusa

All of my family members were home from the war by then, but a few of my friends’ Dads were still in the Pacific and they were quite happy about not having to fight every single man, woman, and child on their own soil.

As for the hostages the Gazans kept, I’m sure they’d rather have died quickly than how they did.


17 posted on 04/10/2024 8:31:38 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; Uncle Miltie; NorthMountain; hardspunned
Gaza is a tiny area INSIDE of Israel. If Israel did a Hiroshima, they would kill MILLIONS of their own people - far more than Hamas ever did.

The U.S. carried out a highly effective conventional bombing campaign against Japan.

Apparently you guys have never heard of the Doolittle Raid. I'm surprised. That's what would suit Israel.

I know Congressman are uneducated idiots, but I thought Freepers knew about WWWII.

18 posted on 04/10/2024 8:36:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: cowboyusa

“Many more Japinise would have died.”

P!ss on them, many more of our fathers would have died.

Too many were already dead because of Japanese belligerence.


19 posted on 04/10/2024 8:38:43 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: Dogbert41

Mu Grandfather was headed over there.


20 posted on 04/10/2024 8:42:25 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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