Obama Apology May Follow Kerry Hiroshima Visit

American Thinker ^ | April 15, 2015 | Daniel John Sobieski

[raptor22]

On April 11, John Kerry became the first Secretary of State to pay his respects to at Hiroshima’s memorial to those who died when the atomic bomb was dropped on that city on August 6, 1945. That event, and the dropping of a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki on August 9, brought a victorious and rapid end to World War II, and a Japanese surrender 6 days after Nagasaki, saving potentially millions of casualties on both sides if the U.S. had been forced to invade the Japanese home islands.

Kerry’s statement during the visit, as reported by CNBC, completely misrepresented the significance of the event, ignored the fact Japan brought tragedy on itself by attacking us at Pearl Harbor, and falsely blamed the instruments of war for the tragedy of war:

[dfwgator]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

[drypowder]

apologizing that not more Americans were killed and that America won. And this POS is in our WH.

[NorthMountain]

That would be a slap in the face to all Americans of that generation EVER. 0bama is a creep.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Will he make them apologize for perl harbor...?

Hmmm...perl harbor? Is that a Safe Space for micro-aggressed Linux coders?

[Kickass Conservative]

What ceases to amaze me is the fact than many Veterans and active duty Military Elected and Reelected Obama.

I just don’t get it.

[Bob434]

thanks- Here’s anotherl ink to the basics on it for others

1925 — Japan refuses Geneva Convention ban on biological weapons.

1932 — Japanese troops invade Manchuria. Shiro Ishii, a physician and army officer who was intrigued by germ warfare, begins preliminary experiments.

1936 — Unit 731, a biological-warfare unit disguised as a water-purification unit, is formed. Ishii builds huge compound — more than 150 buildings over six square kilometers — outside the city of Harbin, Manchuria. Some 9,000 test subjects eventually die at the compound.

1942 — Ishii begins field tests of germ warfare on Chinese soldiers and civilians. Tens of thousands die of bubonic plague, cholera, anthrax and other diseases. U.S. soldiers captured in Philippines are sent to Manchuria.

1945 — Japanese troops blow up the headquarters of Unit

731 in final days of Pacific war. Ishii orders 150 remaining ‘subjects’ killed to cover up their experimentation.

1946 — U.S. makes a deal with Ishii for germ warfare data based on human experimentation in exchange for immunity from war-crimes prosecution.

http://www.ww2pacific.com/unit731.html

Japan’s biological weapons program was born in the 1930s, in part because Japanese officials were impressed that germ warfare had been banned by the Geneva Protocol of 1925. If it was so awful that it had to be banned under international law, the officers reasoned, it must make a great weapon. Establishment of two biological warfare Units 731 and 100 in Manchuria in 1933 because of the number of test subjects available. Harbin in Manchuria was the headquarters of Unit 731. Ishii promoted to full colonel with 3,000 Japanese working under him. In addition of bacteriological warfare, studies were also conducted on human damage done by burns, freezing, high pressure, and bullets. Former members of the unit say that at least 3,000 people and by some accounts several times that number were killed in the medical experiments in which none survived.

[Bob434]

no it’s a resting place and eatery for people who miss typing an ‘a’ in their responses like i do

[IamConservative]

My Great Uncle served in Patton’s army. I can think of no greater insult to him than this azz wipe apologizing to the country that attacked us at Pearl Harbor.

[Bob434]

at least i didn’t type purl- the knit and purl safe place-

[DIRTYSECRET]

For good measure the next GOP President should pardon Sirhan Sirhan.

[SkyDancer]

It was that generation that fought Japan and suffered through their atrocities to our captured forces. 0bama is a disgrace to all Americans today.

[Bob434]

look for him to apologize to hte germans and russians too before he leaves office-

[SkyDancer]

Guess he’ll visit all those German cities we bombed then as well to apologize.

[sickoflibs]

RE:"Everyone in the world should see and feel the power of this memorial. It is a stark, harsh, compelling reminder not only of our obligation to end the threat of nuclear weapons, but to rededicate all our effort to avoid war itself," the chief U.S. diplomat wrote in a guest book at the museum."

Makes you wonder where Kerry learned history.

[Vinnie]

Has any Japanese official ever visited the USS Arizona Memorial, laid a wreath and apologized?

[dfwgator]

Japan Debates Emperor’s Visit to Pearl Harbor

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/18/world/japan-debates-emperor-s-visit-to-pearl-harbor.html

[Billthedrill]

Has any Japanese official ever visited the USS Arizona Memorial, laid a wreath and apologized?

That question tickled a memory so I Googled it up. Yes, the Japanese Defense Minister in 2013.

[napscoordinator]

This is one reason I want trump. Stop apologizing for.being Americans. Enough. I can see Cruz apologizing to the world every second he’s got just like Obama. Enough!!!!!!

[FreeAtlanta]

Trump or Cruz should come in and unapologize for everything that imbecile Obama and Kerry have apologized for.

[jaydubya2]

"Instead of being tried for war crimes, the researchers involved in Unit 731 were given immunity by the U.S. in exchange for their data on human experimentation."