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A-Bomb Victims Stage Rally in Hiroshima Against U.S. Nuclear Warship
ap.tbo ^ | October 29, 2005 | AP

Posted on 10/29/2005 8:13:55 PM PDT by ncountylee

TOKYO (AP) - Victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan joined a sit-in rally in Hiroshima on Saturday to protest plans to base a nuclear-powered American warship in the country, an activist said.

The protest came as talks got underway between top Japanese and American security officials on how to realign the U.S. military presence in Japan.

About 80 people - many of them victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - rallied against plans announced Friday by the U.S. Navy to deploy a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan, said Kazutoshi Kajikawa, who heads the Hiroshima Peace Movement Center.

"It makes me angry that America can even consider basing a nuclear carrier in Japan, the only country in the world to have suffered a nuclear attack," Kajikawa said.

Basing the ship in Japan will also put the Japanese public at risk of being exposed to a radiation leak, he said.

The U.S. has said the carrier can be operated safely in Japanese waters. American Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer told reporters Friday that nuclear ships had made 1,200 visits to Japan in the past 40 years without harming the environment.

The U.S. Navy said it decided to replace the conventional aircraft carrier now based in Yokosuka, just outside Tokyo, with the nuclear-powered ship because it has greater capabilities.


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KEYWORDS: japs; militarybases; theyasked4it; theygotit; wahtvictims; whatvictims
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1 posted on 10/29/2005 8:13:57 PM PDT by ncountylee
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To: ncountylee

If they hadn't started it we wouldn't have had to use nuclear weapons to end it.


2 posted on 10/29/2005 8:14:37 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (http://www.navyfield.com)
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To: ncountylee

Better put some ice on that.


3 posted on 10/29/2005 8:14:50 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: ncountylee

The older carrier is Kitty Hawk. Does anyone know which Nimitz is going there?


4 posted on 10/29/2005 8:15:39 PM PDT by neodad (Rule Number 1: Be Armed)
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To: COEXERJ145

i thought we used atomic weapons not nuclear weapons. Besides it's pronounced nucular any way.


5 posted on 10/29/2005 8:16:39 PM PDT by willyd (Good Fences Make Good Neighbors)
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To: ncountylee

The SOB's wouldn't be a nation today without our help and without living under our nuclear umbrella. Let 'em vent all they want, wait until someone attacks them and see what happens.


6 posted on 10/29/2005 8:17:23 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3rd Bn. Fifth Marines RVN 1969)
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To: COEXERJ145
None of the still-living victims of the nukes had anything whatsoever to do with making any decisions to go to war.

These people are simply bearing witness ~

7 posted on 10/29/2005 8:18:11 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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To: ncountylee

These people should shut up and take care of their 3 armed, one-eyed kids.


8 posted on 10/29/2005 8:18:16 PM PDT by ExpatGator (Progressivism: A polyp on the colon politic.)
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To: ncountylee

Our carriers are safer than some of the reactors the Japanese are running, so what's the big whoop?


9 posted on 10/29/2005 8:18:27 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: ncountylee

In the meantime I will be protesting the ch****sh** bombing of Pearl Harbor, an unprovoked attack i might add. Who has the moral high ground here?


10 posted on 10/29/2005 8:18:29 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rearview mirror)
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To: BipolarBob
Who has the moral high ground?

I do.

You don't.

11 posted on 10/29/2005 8:19:27 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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To: ncountylee
About 80 people -

80? Heck, we had to go through crowds of protestors bigger than that at Yokosuka back in the 70's.

12 posted on 10/29/2005 8:19:42 PM PDT by WildTurkey (True Creationism makes intelligent design actually seem intelligent)
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To: ncountylee

"....About 80 people - many of them victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - rallied against plans announced Friday by the U.S. Navy to deploy a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan, said Kazutoshi Kajikawa, who heads the Hiroshima Peace Movement Center."

80 people? Sound like Japan will soon be OVERTHROWN..(rolling eyes)


13 posted on 10/29/2005 8:20:27 PM PDT by penelopesire
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To: ncountylee
There will always be people like this in Japan, just like we have people like Cindy Sheehan here in the U.S.

I was on the Indy when we visited a port in Hokkaido. We were warned that there would be protestors, not to talk to them, not allow ourselves to be provoked. When we pulled into port the protestors were there as advertised 500 strong.....standing behind about 15,000 people that wanted a tour of the ship, all waving Japanese and American flags.

14 posted on 10/29/2005 8:21:42 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: muawiyah
~ None of the still-living victims of the nukes had anything whatsoever to do with making any decisions to go to war. These people are simply bearing witness ~

I agree, they have cause to protest. Nukes and people are a really bad combo. Particularly for the people who survive.
15 posted on 10/29/2005 8:22:42 PM PDT by Danae (Most Liberals don't drink the Kool-aide, they are licking the powder right out of the packet.)
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To: ncountylee

Well, given their NK and PRC neighbors, it would do them good to go nuclear themselves. When those NKers shot a rocket over Japan, it was supposed to arouse them from slumber.


16 posted on 10/29/2005 8:22:43 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: muawiyah

Bearing witness to what? The wages of a totalitarian regime that put them into a war they had no prayer of winning. We are not the bad guys here.


17 posted on 10/29/2005 8:22:55 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3rd Bn. Fifth Marines RVN 1969)
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To: ncountylee

I wonder if these "enlightened" activists would stage the same type of protest if a nuclear Iran threatened Japan in the same way that Iran threatened Israel lately.


18 posted on 10/29/2005 8:23:07 PM PDT by kromike
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To: Warthogtjm
You miss the whole point.

One of the more obvious things we have all learned about nukes is that their scale is vastly beyond our ability to imagine.

19 posted on 10/29/2005 8:25:53 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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To: ncountylee

And these nuclear engineering Einsteins think the carrier will just go off and blow up? They have as much technical depth as the US soccer moms that don't want "radioactive electricty" coming out the outlet if from a NUCLEAR power plant................


20 posted on 10/29/2005 8:26:20 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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