Posted on 01/15/2018 5:59:57 PM PST by marshmallow
Released in December, the image is a warning against every conflict and a condemnation of today’s “piecemeal Third World War”
“The fruit of war...”. To the journalists who accompany him on his flight from Fiumicino to Santiago de Chile, the first stop of his apostolic journey to Chile and Peru, the Pope wanted to distribute the photo of the child who, after the atomic bombardment of Nagasaki, in 1945, is carrying his dead brother on his shoulders to a crematorium.
A brutal image taken by American photographer Joseph Roger O’ Donnell, that the Pope already wanted to be printed and distributed at end of this year. His bitter caption were the words, “The fruit of war”. Followed by another caption in Spanish that emphasized the despair of the child “in his gesture of biting the lips that ooze blood”. Finally, his signature: “Franciscus”.
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what the hell, that is the the sickest photo I have ever seen, where did it come from
Can someone show him a picture of Pearl Harbor?
How about the skeletal survivors of the Nazi Death Camps? The Japanese weren't the only ones involved in atrocities in WWII.
My dad lived through it—he and his brother and parents lived in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded and had to go to concentration camp until rescued by Americans.
Or the burned to death sailors from Pearl Harbor? Or those who died trapped in the dark hulls of their ships, tapping out messages for weeks until they all died of dehydration or starvation?
This Pope is the Whore of Babylon in drag.
My father to the day he died hated the Japanese. They cut his best friend's head off, sixty years later a tear would roll down his face when he spoke of his friend. We did not start that war but we sure as hell ended it.
The Japanese should get down on their knees and bless the atom bomb as it saved the nation and culture and millions of lives, Japanese lives.
As the war draw to a close in 1944-1945 we had total air superiority over Japan. We ruled the sea around Japan. They were helpless and still refused to surrender. It was all about saving face. Better to die than lose honor is saving face.
If we had needed to take Japan with conventional forces we would have systematical bombed and burned all cities, all industrial capacity, all means of food production, all that maintains a modern functioning society would have been destroyed before we put one damn soldier on their home islands. Our bombs would kill hundreds of thousands as would the fires from our incendiary raids. Disease and starvation would have killed millions. Two atomic bombs and a couple of hundred thousand direct and indirect deaths prevented their total destruction as a Japanese society.
After the two atomic bombs were dropped the emperor demanded the military surrender. The emperor had no real power but this demand gave the warlords a saving face and thus prevented their total destruction. A pleasing footnote to this history is we hung the warlords after war crime trials.
If we needed to invade Japan with conventional forces we had estimates of a million casualties and about 100,000 deaths. Our army soldiers and our blessed marines would not have been kind as they demonstrated from island to island in the Pacific.
This was total war and it is very ugly business and there is not much glory in it. You simply kill the enemy and all that stand with him. A farmer grows the food for the enemy and thus he is the enemy, kill him. Any and all civilians that are part of the war effort are the enemy, kill them.
As mentioned war is ugly brutal vicious dirty business. One must prosecute it with extreme violence. If you can do this, you will probably avoid war as your enemy will cower in fear of you and this is good. If you can not do this, surrender for your enemy has already defeated you.
I forgot to add this one note about revisionist history of the far left. Their contention is that we should have demonstrated the power of the atomic bomb to the Japanese in an area that would have inflicted little loss of human life. We did not and thus they define us as war criminals. We dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and did give them the opportunity to surrender. They did not. We dropped the second bomb and they did. In actuality we only had two bombs ready to drop. They thought we had many. We did have many in the manufacturing pipeline and a few months later could have dropped them at will. Hanford and Oak Ridge were churning out the nuclear fissionable material as fast as they could.
You think he can’t find a picture of the 20 million kulaks who starved under Stalin?
He’s Made in China. Red China.
Pope Francis’s mission appears to be to make Christianity insufferable.
I think the photo was originally called “Payback for Pearl Harbor” but I could be wrong.
It might have been called “Payback for the Bataan Death March” or “Unit 761” or “Payback for drowning our captured pilots” or “Payback for cutting off the heads of American and Allied Prisoners”.
Anyway, the bombs worked, Japan surrendered, and we won.
This Pope is a commie nut. All my Catholic friends took a vote and agreed on that.
Is this Pope one of the old KGB agents?
One of the interesting things that came out of the fall of the USSR was the availability of classified materials. Some of them detailed a program to infiltrate the Vatican and there was a connection to the 1970’s anti-nuclear movement which the KGB also started.
Satan’s pope strikes again.
That picture could have been taken anywhere in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
You’ll never catch a Chinese, Red or otherwise, defending the Japanese. If the Chinese had had the bomb, they probably wouldn’t have stopped dropping them on Japan until it was just a lump of radioactive glass.
Exactly, butt (intentional) how about a few THOUSAND pics of the young that the Church denied ever happened for a LONG time?
Wanna use children in your propaganda there you Marxist scum pope? You are an abomination to the faith.
Oh sure, I know. I’m a student of history as well. But don’t you think that if it’s in their strategic interests to do so, that other things can come before ethnicity for the Chinese communist party? And Francis seems quite friendly with them, all in all.
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