Posted on 05/27/2016 7:32:28 AM PDT by mandaladon
President Barack Obama told the world on Friday in Hiroshima that the American decision to drop nuclear bombs on Japan in 1945 arose from humanity’s worst instincts, including “nationalist fervor or religious zeal.”
The war that ended in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he said, “grew out of the same base instinct for domination or conquest that had caused conflicts among the simplest tribes, an old pattern amplified by new capabilities and without new constraints.”
The speech — delivered on the eve of Memorial Day weekend — was billed by the White House as anything but an apology, but Obama’s words betrayed his true sentiments.
Obama, a native of Honolulu who grew up near Pearl Harbor, said nothing about the fact that Japan started the war; nothing about the fact that the Japanese were responsible for the slaughter of millions of civilians throughout Asia and the Pacific; nothing about the fact that the Japanese refused to surrender after hundreds of thousands had already been killed in conventional bombing.
Obama implied that Americans had not yet considered the human cost of the atomic bomb: we had to “force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell” and “force ourselves to feel the dread of children confused by what they see,” he said.
He described the moral dilemmas of nuclear warfare as if no president, and no American, had considered them before. But he left out the moral case for ending the war, and the hundreds of thousands of deaths avoided because of Hiroshima.
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Reflecting on the decision to bomb Japan years later, Truman declared: “That bomb caused the Japanese to surrender, and it stopped the war. I don’t care what the crybabies say now, because they didn’t have to make the decision................Right on!
They’ll censure him over a crappy NCAA Tournament Bracket before they’ll do this.
Baraq is a freakish creature. Greeting his hosts at Hiroshima with a strange grin on his face.
Obama had high hopes of mediocrity.
He failed...
Barf. Did he stop short of saying, "Racist!"? And what religion is it that is terrorizing the planet and commiting heinous acts upon innocents?
BUMP!!!!
Obama is such a piece of human excrement. He is a vile, disgusting, rotten jerk. Our worst president ever in history, bar none. May he roam the nether world as a shade for eternity, knowing no peace, nor no home. Michelle only can roam with him; that will be his punishment, eternity with his nemesis, his own wife.
Bfl
They should send him to Gitmo shackled in heavy chains.
And the solution is to be presented by The imposter himself.
One world government, no nations, no religion, no gender!!!
If only John Lennon would have thought of that! Imagine!
High Hopes that Trump steam rolls these elite phonies and their maniacal nightmares.
On second thought why let Trump have the fun. WE THE PEOPLE!!!
The Japanese were a cruel, a barbaric enemy. Whether you were to be a prisoner or die was problematic, you lived or dies on the whim of a sadistic Japanese soldier. Prisoners were tortured for no reason, only to satisfy the evil desires of the Japanese. The Americans were just the opposite.
After the war it is the American who rebuilt the nation of Japan and put them in place prominence in Asia. Japan as a nation should worship the USA for giving them all they have.
I feel better now with that off my chest, thank you!!!
Bfl
And remember Harry Truman was a Democrat.
I sometimes wonder if Democrats of the past, such as Truman or JFK, would be welcome in today’s leftist Democrat party.
Walz him over to Nagasaki and see if they can find some plutonium to present him with as a goodwill gesture. If they don’t have any, I suspect we could find some at Pantex.
By pissing on the flag once again, Obama is just doing his part to ensure that people remember what a bunch of pompous wieners the Democrats truly are. He is truly the worst president in our nation’s history by a factor of at least ten. Event the Japanese had to have been uncomfortable with this speech.
No they would not.
You think the way I do. I have a few pet names for him along these lines:
ONBM - ONastyBowelMovementUla
OAD - OAnalDischargeUla
IA- The Imperial Anus
and much much more!
He is married to a Wookie!
18 holes of golf at Fukushima.
Freakish. I’ve been looking all these years for a word to describe him. That’s it.
As a veteran, I found it pretty damn insulting that he choose to commemorate Memorial Day by laying a wreath at the graves of the people who started WWII instead of at the graves of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who died because of them.
When I was a kid the news would have crucified him over his slap in the face to veterans. Now they applaud him. I hope they all rot in hell.
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