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Stein Says US Owes Japan an Apology for Nuke Attack, More Important is Commitment to Disarm
Jill2016 ^ | May 27, 2016 | David Doonan

Posted on 05/28/2016 7:33:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Jill Stein, who is seeking the Green Party nomination for President, said that President Obama should apologize during his trip to Hiroshima for the use of nuclear weapons against Japan by pledging nuclear disarmament.

Dr. Stein also urged Obama to listen to the testimony of the survivors of the nuclear attack, who have dedicated their lives to the elimination of nuclear weapons so that no one else should ever experience the hell on earth they survived.

"The existence of nuclear weapons threatens the survival of humanity. I pledge to eliminate all such weapons as an urgent priority," stated Stein.

Despite his pledge 7 years ago in Prague that the US will "seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons," Obama has supported spending $1 trillion over the next 3 decades to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Stein said she would cancel this program and instead dedicate those funds to meeting human needs and preventing catastrophic climate change.

Stein said that as President she would forego new missile bases in Japan and the Asia pivot, ask Japan to uphold their peace constitution (article 9), and would take Russia up on its previous offer to reduce nuclear weapons to 1000 each, followed by comprehensive talks for all nuclear nations to abolish all nuclear weapons..

The U.S nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 indiscriminately incinerated tens of thousands of non-combatant children, women and men. By the end of the year more than 210,000 people – mainly civilians, were dead.

Today there are more than 15,000 nuclear weapons, most far more powerful than the bombs dropped on Japan. 94% are held by the U.S. and Russia, Last year The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of its Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight citing the "extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity" posed by "unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear arsenals."


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KEYWORDS: apology; bhoasia; greenparty; hiroshima; japan; nuclearweapons; obama; thirdparty
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To: Free in Texas
Our leaders like Truman knew that it was them or us. Thank God they had the courage to win.

Truman was the last Democrat President who had a pair, and who loved the American People. Oh, and btw, this Haberdasher from Independence was NOT a lawyer!

41 posted on 05/29/2016 4:26:51 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is dying in a nuclear blast any worse than being burned to death by a flame- thrower or dying in a conventional bomb run? I don’t see the need to single out nuclear attacks from any others.


42 posted on 05/29/2016 4:54:00 AM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is..." - Milton)
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To: pepsionice

I saw the battlefield at Kennesaw Mountain last month, just a few miles north of Atlanta. 60000 soldiers died in that little minor skirmish. I don’t see where the victims of atom bombs have anything over those men.


43 posted on 05/29/2016 5:00:13 AM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is..." - Milton)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Typical LIBTARD

44 posted on 05/29/2016 5:33:44 AM PDT by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Japan should thank us for the atom bomb. Far fewer of their citizens died and far less of their country was destroyed as a result of those bombs than if a ground invasion had been launched with fighting from one end of that country to the other.


45 posted on 05/29/2016 5:36:42 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

The latter being what I had understood.


46 posted on 05/29/2016 8:06:34 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I agree with unilateral disarmament. Let’s start with ISIS.


47 posted on 06/20/2016 7:08:52 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
We killed more in the Tokyo raids than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Libs overlook that little fact.

48 posted on 07/09/2016 9:52:32 AM PDT by ealgeone
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