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| Obama says willing to visit Hiroshima while in office | |
| 2009-11-10 | |
| TOKYO, Nov 10 (AFP) Nov 10, 2009 US President Barack Obama is willing to visit the nuclear-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki while in office but won't go there during a Japan trip this week, he said in an NHK TV interview Tuesday. "The memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are etched in the minds of the world, and I would be honoured to have the opportunity to visit those cities at some point during my presidency," Obama said in an exclusive interview.
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| Posted by:3dc |
| #9 Nonsense, P2K. Those actions in Manila were just a natural reaction by the poor Japanese soldiers outraged at what was going to happen to their homeland. I mean, who could blame the poor dears? The Japanese were just sitting there, peacefully trying to create the Greater Asia Co-prosperity Sphere, when out of nowhere the evil Americans came in an dropped atomic bombs on Japan. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2009-11-10 21:09 |
| #8 As long as he stops at Manila [then an American territory scheduled for independence before Dec 7, 1941] and review the brutal and criminal Sack of Manila by the Imperial Japanese forces. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-11-10 19:13 |
| #7 fine with me... as long as the Japanese Premier joins him in a tour of Nanking and Bataan. |
| Posted by: Greth the Full Bosomed4724 2009-11-10 18:45 |
| #6 It wasn't us! It was whales! Maybe Hiroshima and/or Nagasaki should offer the One an award...he'd make time for that. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-11-10 16:40 |
| #5 I think some people would be surprised to learn how poor a grasp of history Obama's generation and younger have. The lyric is that the USA has been a dominate world force for 200 years. Influential, is some instances yes, but their misconception is that the USA has been a superpower, pulling all the strings. Mention how dominant the IJN was vs. USN in the opening rounds and they simply do not believe it. Many grasp at straws as to the date of Pearl Harbor (not day, year, but sometimes even decade). It works into the narrative that the USA has always been the provoker of wars. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2009-11-10 16:38 |
| #4 Wonder if he ever visited the Arizona while he lived in Hawaii? Good question. Or Pearl Harbor for that matter. I have no doupt that he wants to apologize for winning WW II. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-11-10 15:52 |
| #3 The POS' teleprompter is speaking at Ft. Hood. SPIT! |
| Posted by: Woozle Uneter9007 2009-11-10 15:05 |
| #2 How many million Japanese were able to survive the war because those bombs forced an end? After seeing the carnage at Iwo and Okinawa I don't think I would have sent landing craft until several years of total blockade and bombardment. Somalians would look fat compared with what I would have had us fight. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-11-10 13:29 |
| #1 The Apology Tour continues with a week end stopover in Chicago of course. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-11-10 13:25 |