U.S., allies to send first delegation to Hiroshima memorial

AP via Yahoo ^ | August 5, 2010 | Staff

[Islander7]

Sixty-five years after dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and killing more than 140,000 people, the United States will send its first ever delegation to a ceremony commemorating the attack.

On Friday, U.S. Ambassador John Roos will join representatives from 75 countries at the Hiroshima event, but he is not expected to speak. World War II allies France and Britain will also send delegations to the ceremony for the first time.

[Carry_Okie]

The only way to ensure that such weapons will never again be used is to eliminate them all," he said. "There must be no place in our world for such indiscriminate weapons.

"Indiscriminate"? Like hell they were, they only killed Japanese.

In the final analysis, fewer Japanese died in the atomic blasts than would have in a conventional invasion. I'd call that one discriminating weapon. The people who want it banned want us to die.

[Napoleon Solo]

How about the Japanese sending a delegation to Pearl Harbor on December 7.