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White House Panics Hiroshima With Enola Gay Photo-Op Flyover
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Posted on 05/16/2009 8:59:05 PM PDT by smoothsailing
TOKYO - Just days after the White House apologized about an Air Force One photo-op flight around the Statue of Liberty that panicked New Yorkers still skittish about 9/11, the White House apologized to the people of Japan for sending the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, for a photo-op flyover above the once-devastated city.
Early yesterday morning, on the White House’s instructions, the infamous bomber was secretly removed from display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center and recommissioned for deployment.
Without alerting Hiroshima, an unnamed pilot, filmmaker Michael Moore and Vice President Joe Biden then flew the bomber over the city to film a recreation of the August 6, 1945 bombing that destroyed much of the city for Mr. Moore’s upcoming film Tōjō & Me, a film about Mr. Moore’s fictional efforts to speak with Hideki Tōjō, Japan’s prime minister in World War II.
Mr. Biden reportedly believed that the men were actually on a mission to drop an atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
After it became known that the mission terrified residents of Hiroshima, President Obama said he welcomed the opportunity to apologize to Japan.
“I was hoping to find some reason to apologize to Japan on behalf of the United States anyway, and this is the perfect opportunity.”
May 11
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To: smoothsailing
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:00:06 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: smoothsailing
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:01:11 PM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Rahm Emmanuel slip - A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.)
To: smoothsailing
This administration has no shame.....
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:02:57 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(FR. ....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
To: listenhillary
To: smoothsailing
But in a good way. And don’t take that wrong, cause I’m a guy.
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:04:28 PM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Rahm Emmanuel slip - A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.)
To: smoothsailing
“..the infamous bomber..”
What is so infamous about the plane? Long live Paul Tibbits and the Enola Gay.
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:06:36 PM PDT
by
353FMG
To: 353FMG
I think Tibbets is deceased, IAC, I share your sentiments.
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:12:09 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
(ECCE homo)
To: smoothsailing
My new slogan: “I’m Pro-Gay... Provided It’s The Enola Gay.”
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:12:38 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: smoothsailing
Next they’re going to fire bomb Dresden.
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:13:42 PM PDT
by
Bullish
( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
To: smoothsailing
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:15:20 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(History books will read that Lincoln freed the slaves and Obama enslaved the free.)
To: smoothsailing
LOL!
Mr. Moore’s upcoming film Tōjō & Me,
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:16:50 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
To: smoothsailing
“I was hoping to find some reason to apologize to Japan on behalf of the United States anyway, and this is the perfect opportunity.” LOL!! Barack, Unpromptered.
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:22:43 PM PDT
by
cookcounty
(He who controls the Language controls the Debate.)
To: smoothsailing
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:22:50 PM PDT
by
NoPrisoners
("When in the course of human events...")
To: listenhillary; jazusamo; Just A Nobody; freema
OK, guy, here's the photos Obama refused to release.
Don't ask me where I got them, or I'll have either kill you or tell a lie.
And Momma said I should never lie.
I have more, but they're highly classified.
To: 353FMG; RobbyS
To: smoothsailing
I have more, but they're highly classified. Hah! I know nothing! :-)
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:28:51 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
To: Bullish
Next they’re going to fire bomb Dresden.
Paging Memphis Belle, Memphis Belle please pick up the white courtesy phone.
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:35:19 PM PDT
by
Tailback
To: smoothsailing
Whoops! I hope nobody saw that!
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:43:44 PM PDT
by
Nateman
(Click on Picture for Air Force One photoshop fun.)
To: smoothsailing
Love the spinners.
Did you get a shot of the purple tuck and roll interior they’ve installed?
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posted on
05/16/2009 9:48:01 PM PDT
by
Bullish
( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
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