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| October 11, 2011
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Posted on 10/11/2011 4:56:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
10/11/2011 4:56:13 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
The Japanese have more sense then our own president. There is no reason whatsoever to apologize to what is now our dear friend and ally for what we did during the war. It was, after all, war.
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posted on
10/11/2011 5:00:55 PM PDT
by
CitizenUSA
(What's special about bad? Bad is easy. Anyone can do bad. Aspire to be good!)
To: Kaslin
The obsessive need of this president to apologize for American exceptionalism and our defense of freedom continued recently when Barack Obama's State Department (run by Hillary Clinton) contacted the family of al-Qaida propagandist and recruiter Samir Khan to "express its condolences" to his family. That is insane.
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posted on
10/11/2011 5:03:27 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(So much stress was put on Bush's Fault that it finally let go, magnitude 6)
To: Kaslin
Those bombs saved more Japanese lives than American and they would have saved a LOT of American lives. The invasions would not have been pretty.
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posted on
10/11/2011 5:14:56 PM PDT
by
magslinger
(To properly protect your family you need a Bible, a twelve gauge and a pig.)
To: Kaslin
Those bombs saved more Japanese lives than American and they saved a LOT of American lives. The invasions would not have been pretty.
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posted on
10/11/2011 5:15:35 PM PDT
by
magslinger
(To properly protect your family you need a Bible, a twelve gauge and a pig.)
To: Kaslin
Apologizing for someone else amounts to finger-pointing, not contrition.
To: CitizenUSA
Yes and they started it... so $crew them if they can’t accept a presidential apology from the country they attacked! Choose a smaller country to pick on so you do not become the reason the big country develops a weapon to totally destroy you.. FOOLS.
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posted on
10/11/2011 5:30:33 PM PDT
by
JSteff
((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
To: magslinger
It also saved Japan from being divided, like Korea.
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posted on
10/11/2011 5:32:58 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Kaslin
I'm surprised he hasn't appollogized for the crusades
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posted on
10/11/2011 5:34:27 PM PDT
by
Figment
("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
To: dfwgator
Yes, and the soviets wanted to jump in and get half of Japan. We played it well so they would not. The bomb actually gave all, (us and japan) a pause from the soviets getting involved.
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posted on
10/11/2011 5:36:28 PM PDT
by
JSteff
((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
To: Figment
“I’m surprised he hasn’t appollogized for the crusades”
He can’t, he’s on the other side.
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posted on
10/11/2011 5:39:11 PM PDT
by
Stormdog
(A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
To: magslinger
Considering the death toll just on the Japanese side during the battle of Okinawa--soldiers and civilians--the death toll if the home islands had been invaded could have run into the millions. Vastly fewer Japanese died because the bombs were dropped.
Have the Japanese ever sincerely apologized for the suffering they inflicted on the Chinese, the Koreans, the Filipinos, and the people of the other countries they conquered? In Nanking, China, alone, they killed hundreds of thousands--for no reason other than that Japan wanted to conquer China.
Has Obama apologized to the Japanese for what the US did after the war, rebuilding Japan? He should include that in his apology.
Obama is not a patriot.
To: Kaslin
This ought to play real well in an election season.
Lets see if the republicans have the courage to use it.
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posted on
10/11/2011 6:03:46 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Verginius Rufus
Obama can speak for America because our system allows him to be its political & military leader.
But he has no moral right to speak for Americans.
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posted on
10/11/2011 6:07:00 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Verginius Rufus
My dad invaded Okinawa. At the time the bomb was dropped, he was on Luzon retraining and refitting for Olympic. The estimates for American casualties in Operation Olympic alone were around one million.
It is my personal estimate that Japanese casualties for all of the invasions and subjugation of Japan would have exceeded 20 million, probably closer to 30 million. I have talked to Japanese who were alive at the time. They were much more afraid of Americans than of death because of Japanese propaganda. It would have been a blood bath.
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posted on
10/11/2011 6:21:46 PM PDT
by
magslinger
(To properly protect your family you need a Bible, a twelve gauge and a pig.)
To: dfwgator
I am not so sure given that the USSR didn't declare war until August 9 when the war was effectively over. If they had been involved in the invasion, the Japanese casualties would have been vastly increased not to mention deaths after fighting ceased.
One would hope that Harry S wouldn't just give half of Japan to the USSR if they didn't have boots on the ground.
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posted on
10/11/2011 6:38:19 PM PDT
by
magslinger
(To properly protect your family you need a Bible, a twelve gauge and a pig.)
To: Kaslin
There he spoke of "America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons," ignoring that before 1945 we lived in such a world and it was neither peaceful nor secure. Nuclear weapons are the reason WWII was the last war between major industrial nations. Nukes are the great peacekeepers of the world in the right hands.
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posted on
10/11/2011 7:19:57 PM PDT
by
Will88
To: magslinger
At Yalta FDR got Stalin to promise to enter the war against Japan within 2 or 3 months after the end of the war in Europe. Stalin declared war on Japan 3 months to the day after V-E Day. In February 1945 the atom bomb hadn’t been proven to work and people thought the war against Japan would continue into 1946, so getting Soviet help seemed like a good idea. As it turned out, for 6 days’ participation in the war (Japan agreed to surrender on August 14), Stalin got a lot, including half of Korea.
To: Nachum; markomalley; Clairity; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...
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posted on
10/11/2011 7:58:13 PM PDT
by
raptor22
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To: magslinger
Spot on, and anyone who doesn’t understand this is only showing their ignorance of WWII Pacific Theater history, and the Battle of Okinawa in particular.
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posted on
10/11/2011 8:03:16 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
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