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.
The Hiroshima Congress against A- and H-Bombs s/b The Hiroshima Congress in Favor of the Genocide of Jews. You don't want the US to nuke ya? Don't bomb Pearl Harbor.
That said, it was a nitwit comment by Walberg, just from a practical standpoint, because the distance between a target in Gaza and Israel's entire population is small.
I dont think the suggestion was to nuke them, but more like dealing them such an overwhelming blow, they have to really think about surrender.
BS. Nips and Krauts still need to keep their genocidal mouths shut.
Stop drinking the PC Kool-Aid -it’s a perfect metaphor
If they got the bomb first, would they have hesitated to use it on US cities?
Not a chance.
They started the war, we ended it.
The US pretty much forced them to. Sorry, but Roosevelt maneuvered us into that war.
The destruction of Tokyo was more total than the destruction of Hiroshima.
Hiroshima was doomed even with out the atom bomb
Have a cup of coffee and a more perceptive day.
Peace is only an A-Bomb away
And American lives too. Without those bombs the US would have had to invade Japan. That would have been like Normandy over and over again - with no underground resistance groups. They expected millions of wounded. For years our government had supposedly millions of metal hospital beds with manual cranks in storage, left over from the war. They used some of them for the VA hospitals and then melted down the rest.
So sorry, Charlie. Nuclear bombs (or as G.W. Bush would say, “Nucular” bombs) are for squids.
Hiroshima today:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nguyen_ngoc_chinh/5495174561/
Wouldn’t be a metaphor is Japan didn’t attack us.
“We bombed almost every city except a few in the North and three historical ones into complete rubble.”
And they still refused to surrender until days after the Nagasaki bombing.
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No, they surrendered after Russia sliced through their defenses.
Why would Israel nuke the United States?
I’m no fan of Yoko Ono, but I think Ichiro Suzuki and Shohei Ohtani more than make up for her.
Oh please.
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Oh please. Then why didn’t they surrender to the Russians?
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I was talking about Japan.
Can you imagine what it would have been like if Russia occupied Japan? No one, on either front wanted to be under Russia occupation. If you have an option who to surrender to, never surrender to the cruel tyrants.
[I guess technically they surrendered some or more of the mainland holdings to the Russians - the Russians were slicing through their forces like a knife through melting butter.)
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