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Kerry plans no apology for wartime atomic bomb on Hiroshima visit
Reuters ^ | April 10, 2016 | Arshad Mohammed and Kiyoshi Takenaka

Posted on 04/10/2016 3:09:32 PM PDT by PROCON

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - John Kerry will not offer an apology for the United States' use of the atomic bomb against Japan when he becomes the first U.S. secretary of state to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on Monday, a senior U.S. official said.

Kerry is visiting the city, which was obliterated by a U.S. atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, to attend gathering of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies that Japan opened on Sunday with a call to end nuclear weapons.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apology; atomicbomb; bhoasia; hanoijohn; hiroshima; johnefinkerry; johnkerry; kerry; secstate; soskerry; tehranjohn; traitor
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To: Jack Hammer

Iran does not — NK does.


61 posted on 04/11/2016 2:26:24 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: DesertRhino

I was reading wikipedia about unit 731 and it says that they were never prosecuted due to US actions — I don’t understand that


62 posted on 04/11/2016 3:13:28 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: PROCON; All

OBAMA APOLOGY MAY FOLLOW OBAMA HIROSHIMA VISIT

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3421284/posts


63 posted on 04/15/2016 9:08:46 AM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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