Posted on 08/17/2016 1:16:55 PM PDT by chajin
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Monday criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trumps proposal to allow Japan to obtain nuclear weapons, stressing that Japans pacifist Constitution was written by the United States.
Does he not understand we wrote Japans constitution to say they could not be a nuclear power? Biden said in a speech he delivered in Scranton, Pa., for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Where was he when in school? Biden asked. Someone who lacks this judgment cannot be trusted, he said. Hes not qualified to know the [nuclear] codes, the U.S. vice president said.
Trump has suggested that Japan and South Korea be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons to protect themselves without relying on the United States.
HAHAHAHA No Wit WHAT?Constitution of Japan 1946
We, the Japanese people, acting through our duly elected representatives in the National Diet, determined that we shall secure for ourselves and our posterity the fruits of peaceful cooperation with all nations and the blessings of liberty throughout this land, and resolved that never again shall we be visited with the horrors of war through the action of government, do proclaim that sovereign power resides with the people and do firmly establish this Constitution.
Government is a sacred trust of the people, the authority for which is derived from the people, the powers of which are exercised by the representatives of the people, and the benefits of which are enjoyed by the people. This is a universal principle of mankind upon which this Constitution is founded. We reject and revoke all constitutions, laws, ordinances, and rescripts in conflict herewith.
We, the Japanese people, desire peace for all time and are deeply conscious of the high ideals controlling human relationship, and we have determined to preserve our security and existence, trusting in the justice and faith of the peace- loving peoples of the world. We desire to occupy an honored place in an international society striving for the preservation of peace, and the banishment of tyranny and slavery, oppression and intolerance for all time from the earth. We recognize that all peoples of the world have the right to live in peace, free from fear and want.
We believe that no nation is responsible to itself alone, but that laws of political morality are universal; and that obedience to such laws is incumbent upon all nations who would sustain their own sovereignty and justify their sovereign relationship with other nations.
We, the Japanese people, pledge our national honor to accomplish these high ideals and purposes with all our resources.
Stultus est sicut stultus facit
True, remember Obama apologized to the Japanese for WWII.
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