Posted on 11/25/2019 6:08:15 PM PST by marshmallow
TOKYO - Pope Francis has told Japanese Emperor Naruhito that he remembers seeing his parents cry over the news of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 74 years ago.
The pope traveled on Sunday to the two Japanese cities, where he urged world powers to renounce their nuclear arsenals and declared the use and possession of atomic bombs an “immoral” crime.
Palace officials say the pope told the emperor on Monday that he recalled the memory of his parent’s sorrow when he addressed survivors of the atomic bombings in the two cities.
Naruhito told Francis that he has high respect for the pope’s efforts on behalf of world peace and people’s happiness.
The emperor is a symbol of the nation and has no direct political power.
Japan says it seeks a nuclear-free world but still depends on U.S. nuclear deterrence because of the worsening security environment in the region.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga made the comments Monday, a day after Francis demanded in Nagasaki and Hiroshima that world powers renounce their nuclear arsenals and declared that the use and possession of atomic bombs was “immoral.”
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Tears of Joy in America your ASSHOLINESS.
See post 40
Does he give a rat’s ass about all the American families whose sons and daughters died from those monstrous attacks at Pearl Harbor and all over the Asians theater? Didn’t hear our Jesuit, tree hugging “spiritual” leader mention anything about that.
And until he does pore his heart out over our American sufferings, he can go to hell.
My mom had 3 brothers in the Marines, who didn’t have to invade Japan, and my dad’s brother died on the Bataan death march.
It would have been 5 - 6 million Japanese dead in a conventional invasion, plus one million American causalities.
My father was in the U.S. Coast guard back then, preparing to go to landing craft school. He probably would have been one of those causalities.
This pope is a sick bastard.
Horrible, yes, but thank God it was US
My great-grandmother cried. Four of her sons enlisted and served in Europe and the Pacific, while her eldest daughter moved to Baltimore to work for the duration.
Agreed. The last two bombs were simply a more efficient way to incinerate cities than 1,000 bomber raids. It was war , and killing, on an industrial scale, and the only wonder was and is the continued controversy.
Still on his “I hate America” tour I see.
Up to FOUR MILLION casualties possibly???
Good God.
I wonder if Germany had made the bomb before us but we owned the skies at that point already.
Or the Japanese.
Could they have delivered the bomb on our soil late in the war with no real air force left.
Anti-American is one thing - this Pope is both anti-God and anti-people - claiming that goodness only comes to those people whose ideologies this Pope agrees with and not God’s love or salvation for all mankind
If the Japanese had had the bomb they wouldn’t have hesitated to use it.
If I’m not mistaken wasn’t Argentina an Axis friendly country? A lot of Nazis found refuge there after the war.
Argentina was pro-Nazi during and after WW2. Should have nuked them just to be sure.
Did they cry when Pearl Harbor was annihilated??
His father immigrated from Italy to Argentina to escape Mussolini....according to wiki at least. I doubt his story.
Prior to the dropping the Atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki we had total supremacy in the air over Japan. If not for the Atom bomb we would have continued our plan of total devastation of Japan via fire bombing etc. We did not drop the atom bomb on Tokyo because we had already burnt it mostly up with our fire bombing.
The Japanese were fierce fighters even when faced with known defeat as demonstrated in the Islands of the South Pacific. They would have been even more fierce in defensing their homeland of Japan.
Our causalities would have been great. The casualties on the Japanese side would have been many many many times greater. Oddly most would have been to to starvation and disease as we would have bombed then into a no longer functional society prior to putting one American soldier on the home Islands of Japan.
The atom bomb saved the lives of many American soldiers. It saved the nation of Japan as they then surrendered and countless numbers of Japanese did not die in an invasion. If it were a an invasion considering the first home Island of Okinawa we would have not been gentle. It would have been genocidal.
The atom bomb saved Japan as it gave legitimacy to surrender. If not they would have fought for ever damn inch of ground and we would have killed them inch by inch with extreme prejudice.
War is ugly business and only rarely noble. If one is able and willing to inflict war in the extreme on an enemy it is rare one must go to war. The grunts on the ground go to war for god, country and honor. Their attitude soon changes. They then war for their guys on their side. It all then becomes about our guys.
I was a catholic. My pope is a Marxist with a political ideology that I abhor.
I no longer attend the Church of Rome under this man. I attend another church.
I would most like to go back to my church. I do no see this happening in the future so long as our present Marxist Pope is head of he Church of Rome.
Of even greater concern is the fact that the election of a Pope is a function of the Church of Cardinals. Thus our present pope is a function of that corruption in the Church of Cardinals. Pope Francis could die tomorrow and the present Church of Cardinals would replace him with another such as he.
Did his parents cry over the 100 000 Filipno civilians in Manila deliberately killed by the departing Japanese.?
a recent book Rampage tells the story...
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