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OBAMA'S EVERY GESTURE WILL BE SCRUTINIZED IN HIROSHIMA VISIT
AP ^ | May 26, 2016 | FOSTER KLUG

Posted on 05/26/2016 9:45:25 AM PDT by PROCON

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- Every gesture. Every word uttered or avoided. Every person Barack Obama speaks with, listens to and stands beside in Hiroshima. All of it will help determine the success of a trip with huge potential political and diplomatic pitfalls, both in America and Asia.

The leader of the United States is already one of the world's most watched people. But that daily scrutiny will be magnified exponentially when Obama makes the first presidential journey to the place where the first atomic bomb attack killed tens of thousands 71 years ago.

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TOPICS: Government; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apologytour; assclown; hiroshima; obama
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To: PROCON

He will flush the USA down the toilet. Nothing new here.


21 posted on 05/26/2016 10:09:46 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to youGo to trumps websites look a)
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To: pepsi_junkie

and some military leaders tried to stop the surrender after the SECOND one too!

liberals are asses.

He could also visit the place where the japs dissected Chinese alive.

And where they switched arms in operations, God only knows what for.


22 posted on 05/26/2016 10:10:10 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: PROCON

The Japanese did not sign the Geneva Convention rules of war. It might however been just as effective to turn Mt Fujiama into a glass platter.
Given the treatment the Japanese meted out. Obama should just say “We won, you lost “


23 posted on 05/26/2016 10:15:12 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to youGo to trumps websites look a)
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To: PROCON

He’s going to announce something like Hiroshima induces in him “national reflection” or something like that:

the term reflection is very widely understood in Japan to mean a non-apology apology, meaning the apology you give when you cannot for some reason officially apologize.

Let me give the strongest assurance that he would be widely understood in Japan as apologizing if he uses this word reflection.

another less likely possibility is that he will use the occasion to announce some cut in US nuclear arms or force posture.


24 posted on 05/26/2016 10:16:09 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: PROCON

Ødungo could F up a marble...


25 posted on 05/26/2016 10:17:45 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: PROCON
Every gesture. Every word uttered or avoided. Every person Barack Obama speaks with, listens to and stands beside in Hiroshima. All of it will help determine the success of a trip with huge potential political and diplomatic pitfalls, both in America and Asia.

I wonder if he'll turn into a human "beat box" again like he just did in Vietnam the other day. Don't those words and gestures count?

26 posted on 05/26/2016 10:20:07 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: gaijin

Most Americans do not realize that right after December 7th Japan also attacked Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, Dutch East Indies, Vietnam, Burma which was then legally part of India, and many other places, including Alaska.

later they even printed up all the Imperial Japanese money they were going to use in Australia, which they were confident they would invade and occupy.

the American mind sees Pearl Harbor as just the beginning of the American war. they are much less aware of the implications for the rest of Asia, which were enormous.


27 posted on 05/26/2016 10:23:27 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

“-———the American mind sees Pearl Harbor as just the beginning of the American war. they are much less aware of the implications for the rest of Asia, which were enormous.


That may be true of the young American minds but most older folks are well aware of the Asian impact.

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28 posted on 05/26/2016 10:27:54 AM PDT by Mears
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To: gaijin

I forgot to mention the obvious, which was that Taiwan, Korea and about one-third of China was already occupied by Japan even before Pearl Harbor.


29 posted on 05/26/2016 10:29:45 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: PROCON
Blue Velvet photo: Blue Velvet BlueVelvet.gif "They're scrutinizing his every gesture." Obama Japanese sailor photo: gay japanese sailor 61.jpg
30 posted on 05/26/2016 10:33:25 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: PROCON

I’ve got a gesture for Obama; it involves the middle finger of my right hand.


31 posted on 05/26/2016 10:41:27 AM PDT by anoldafvet (they're not immigrants, they're criminal aliens)
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To: Tenacious 1

His simply being there on or around Memorial Day is an apology.


32 posted on 05/26/2016 10:46:18 AM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: PROCON

Obama will apologize for the Evil Whites that won the war and saved millions of lives


33 posted on 05/26/2016 10:50:42 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: pepsi_junkie

“...Japan was on the verge of surrender and we didn’t need to bomb them.”

When you are on the verge of victory, YOU get to choose when your enemy is going to surrender, not them. I think the timing might have been better with, say, half a dozen more A-bombs. Unfortunately, we didn’t have any more. Bummer!


34 posted on 05/26/2016 11:25:15 AM PDT by beelzepug (For English press #1; for Spanish, learn English and press #1)
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To: BenLurkin

I’d like to see him go to Tarawa.


35 posted on 05/26/2016 11:37:56 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: PROCON

Who cares what faggot Obama does!
This ill-bread’s mom was 15 when she squirted out her feral hyena.

There is a *LOT* to be said about good breeding.


36 posted on 05/26/2016 12:10:42 PM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: headstamp 2

The fact that he visits Hiroshima is an apology, nothing less.


37 posted on 05/26/2016 1:09:44 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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