Hillary Clinton approved apology to be given by U.S. delegation to Hiroshima

Fox News Channel | 8/5/10

[pabianice]

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[BenLurkin]

BUMP!

[BenLurkin]

And them some.

[pabianice]

Suddenly, a new announcement from Obama. The US delegation will not apologize as it bows at the memorial in Japan. I guess the WH is getting barbequed over this.

[snowsislander]

I am sure this was right after Japan apologized for Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March, Cabanatuan, etc., etc., etc., no?

For what it is worth, Japan has made about 50 official apologies since the 1950s regarding various aspects of the Pacific War, and its actions in Korea and China. There's a list at List of war apology statements issued by Japan.

In fact, just last year, there was a specific apology for the Bataan Death March, delivered directly to 73 of its survivors: Japan Apologizes for Bataan Death March.

But there's no reason for us to apologize. Japan had its own nuclear weapons program, and there is significant research that shows that they were much closer to a weapon than most historians had thought. (There are even some people who believe that Japan had actually succeeded with some version of a nuclear weapon test in what is now North Korea.) There's no question in my mind that if the Japanese could have used a nuclear weapon on us, they would have not hesitated to do so.

It was a hard-fought war by both sides. From talking with many Japanese, I have myself met very few that felt aggrieved by the nuclear weapons used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (I would say, though, that an irrational horror of nuclear weapons is quite common among Japanese.) I believe it's safe to say that every one of those folks who I met that were vocally aggrieved were quite leftist, and well out of the Japanese mainstream.

[BuffaloJack]

A week from now, Obama will be apologizing for putting down the Confederacy.

[Uncle Hal]

Folks if we apologize for Hiroshima this is going to make the furor over the mosque near ground zero look like child's play. People are going to be marching in the streets calling for the return of Gorge W. Bush.

[lionheart 247365]

........ a broken clock is even right two times a day .

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Would not surprise me. Hillary Clinton is a liberal American-hating Free Trade Globalist....who will use any opprotunity to stab Americans in the back

Wonder if we will ever get an apology for the Bataan Beath March?

Japan deserved to be nuked at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Get over it Globalist PC nutjobs

[snowsislander]

Wonder if we will ever get an apology for the Bataan Beath March?

Japan Apologizes for Bataan Death March: Ambassador Speaks to Last 73 American Survivors of the March

[william clark]

Any bit of inclination I might have ever felt to apologize to Japan for dropping the bombs was eliminated when I read about Nanking.