Hiroshima atomic bomb victims want apology from Obama
Victims of the atomic bombings of Japan want an apology from US President Barack Obama when he
visits Hiroshima next week, the head of a survivors' group said Thursday.
Obama will become the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, where the first atomic bomb was
dropped on August 6, 1945, killing about 140,000 people in
total.
Tens of thousands were killed by the fireball that
the powerful Hiroshima blast generated, with many more succumbing to injuries
or illnesses caused by radiation in the weeks, months and years afterwards.
Vast swathes of the city, including many of its
military and industrial installations, were flattened.
The southern city of Nagasaki was hit by a second bomb days
later, killing 74,000 people, in one of the final acts of World War II.
"I urge him to apologize to those who died,
bereaved families and parents who lost their children," Terumi Tanaka,
secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations
and a survivor of the Nagasaki explosion, told reporters.
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In recent
years, I have heard many American citizens, as well as citizens of other
countries, criticizing America’s decision to use such inhumane
tactics. They seem to be convinced that
the war was almost over and the use of nukes was unnecessary. The truth is, the war was not almost over,
and using the bombs not only saved untold thousands of American lives, it quite
possibly saved many Japanese lives as well.
Obama should
NOT apologize. Not now…Not ever…
The attack
on Pearl
Harbor
alone is reason enough to not apologize, but there are many other reasons that
people seem to forget.
First,
they were given the opportunity to surrender, and did not. After the bombing of Hiroshima, they were given another
opportunity to surrender, and did not.
The second bomb was then dropped on Nagasaki.
These
bombs had never been tested so they were not even sue they would work. They were of different design, I suppose so
that if one design didn’t work perhaps the other would. One was built using enriched Uranium, and the
other with Plutonium. So this was a
desperate attempt to bring the war to an end, on the hope that at least one of
them would work.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was not the only thing Japan was guilty of. They were also guilty of numerous war crimes,
which they were forgiven for as part of the surrender agreement.
Perhaps these
people are unaware that the Japanese were guilty of many war crimes far greater
than anything most Americans can even imagine.
Most of which, I have been aware of for many years, but I recently read
about a very disturbing incident I had never before heard about. You can read about it here: http://universalfreepress.Com/Japanese-dissected-us-bomber-crew-while-they-were-still-alive-in-wwii-photos/
Just in case the article is
no longer on that site, here are a couple more links.
It explains how downed American airmen were subjected to
horrific medical experiments and were actually dissected while they were still
alive during World War Two.
Also, I found
this on the Internet: http://WWW.consciouslyenlightened.Com/graphic-video-amputated-limbs-organs-removed-frozen-body-parts-no-anesthetics-unit-731/
I recently watched a
very good movie entitled “unbroken”.
It’s a true story about American POWs during WW2. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend it. It shows a little of what the POWs had to
endure, but these are just a few examples.
Many American POW’s were used as slave labor, and some were
beheaded. Many American POWs starved to
death. You can learn much more if you
Google “Japanese war crimes world war two”.
I realize all these
events occurred a very long time ago, and I’m not trying to create resentment,
or bring back bad memories for anyone, but before people call President Truman
a murderer and a war criminal, they should know all the facts.
Or you could just
check out the following links.
I sometimes feel
like our children today are being taught history with a very biased slant which
tends to depict America as always being the “bad guys”. I’m not saying America has never made mistakes. I’m just saying that the manner in which we
brought an end to WW2 was not one on them.
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