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Is Obama Attempting to rewrite History???

Tam

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U.S. Delegation Will Not Offer Apology at Hiroshima Ceremony
By Joshua Rhett Miller

Published August 05, 2010

The U.S. delegation will not offer an apology for dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki when it attends a ceremony in Japan on Friday marking the 65th anniversary of the attacks, which brought World War II to an end.

State Department spokesman Noel Clay said no apology will be offered by the delegation, to be led by U.S. Ambassador John Roos, at the ceremony in Hiroshima.

"As Assistant Secretary [P.J.] Crowley stated, at this particular point, we thought it was the right thing to do," Clay said in an e-mail on Thursday. "Ambassador Roos will attend the ceremony to express respect for all the victims of World War II. From the tragedy of that war, the U.S. and Japan have become close friends and allies. We must continue to work together to ensure that such a tragedy does not happen again."

Some survivors of the bombing had indicated that they hoped Roos would offer an apology at the ceremony.

Terumi Tanaka, who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki at age 13 and is now secretary-general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Associations, said the "best thing" the delegation could do would be to apologize for the two bombings, which killed roughly 220,000 people.

"We welcome the visit," he told The Associated Press. "But without an apology, it is difficult for us. We aren't asking for reparations. We simply want the U.S. to apologize and get rid of its nuclear arsenal."

Friday's ceremony will mark the first time that the U.S. will send a delegation to the anniversary ceremony. Hiroshima officials on Wednesday said representatives from 75 countries will attend the ceremony, along with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Representatives from nuclear powers France and Britain, America's allies in World War II, also will attend for the first time.

Meanwhile, the son of the U.S. Air Force pilot who dropped the first atomic bomb in the history of warfare told FoxNews.com on Wednesday that the Obama administration's decision to send a delegation to the ceremony is an "unsaid apology" and appears to be an attempt to "rewrite history."
Gene Tibbets, son of Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., said the visit is an act of contrition that his late father would never have approved.

"It's an unsaid apology," Tibbets, 66, said Wednesday. "Why wouldn't it be? Why would [Roos] go? It doesn't make any sense.

"I know it's the anniversary, but I don't know what the hell they're trying to do. It needs to be left alone. The war is over."

Tibbets, whose father died in 2007 at the age of 92, said he receives dozens of calls from veterans every year around this time thanking him for his father's service.

"'If it wasn't for your dad, I wouldn't be here,'" Tibbets said many veterans tell him. "This has been going on since he dropped that bomb."

Tibbets said he sees Roos' impending visit as an attempt to revise history.

"It's making the Japanese look like they're the poor people, like they didn't do anything," he said. "They hit Pearl Harbor, they struck us. We didn't slaughter the Japanese -- we stopped the war."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Michelle Obama said the US was going to have to rewrite History is this what she meant. And will Obama be sending an Apology for the bombing that stopped the war? As we all know this would not be the first time this fool apologized to make somebody like the US better. :roll:
 

hypocritexposer

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I was going to say that 65 years of apologies are not really needed, but...

Being that this is the first delegation to the ceremony, I would think an apology would be in order.
 

Tam

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hypocritexposer said:
I was going to say that 65 years of apologies are not really needed, but...

Being that this is the first delegation to the ceremony, I would think an apology would be in order.

What brought the US into WWII?
Saturday, December 6 - Washington D.C. - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt makes a final appeal to the Emperor of Japan for peace. There is no reply. Late this same day, the U.S. code-breaking service begins intercepting a 14-part Japanese message and deciphers the first 13 parts, passing them on to the President and Secretary of State. The Americans believe a Japanese attack is imminent, most likely somewhere in Southeast Asia.

Sunday, December 7 - Washington D.C. - The last part of the Japanese message, stating that diplomatic relations with the U.S. are to be broken off, reaches Washington in the morning and is decoded at approximately 9 a.m. About an hour later, another Japanese message is intercepted. It instructs the Japanese embassy to deliver the main message to the Americans at 1 p.m. The Americans realize this time corresponds with early morning time in Pearl Harbor, which is several hours behind. The U.S. War Department then sends out an alert but uses a commercial telegraph because radio contact with Hawaii is temporarily broken. Delays prevent the alert from arriving at headquarters in Oahu until noontime (Hawaii time) four hours after the attack has already begun.

Sunday, December 7 - Islands of Hawaii, near Oahu - The Japanese attack force under the command of Admiral Nagumo, consisting of six carriers with 423 planes, is about to attack. At 6 a.m., the first attack wave of 183 Japanese planes takes off from the carriers located 230 miles north of Oahu and heads for the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor - At 7:02 a.m., two Army operators at Oahu's northern shore radar station detect the Japanese air attack approaching and contact a junior officer who disregards their reports, thinking they are American B-17 planes which are expected in from the U.S. west coast.

Near Oahu - At 7:15 a.m., a second attack wave of 167 planes takes off from the Japanese carriers and heads for Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor is not on a state on high alert. Senior commanders have concluded, based on available intelligence, there is no reason to believe an attack is imminent. Aircraft are therefore left parked wingtip to wingtip on airfields, anti-aircraft guns are unmanned with many ammunition boxes kept locked in accordance with peacetime regulations. There are also no torpedo nets protecting the fleet anchorage. And since it is Sunday morning, many officers and crewmen are leisurely ashore.
Do you also believe Japan should apologize for all the People they killed when they bombed Pearl Harbor?
 

hypocritexposer

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I'm not sure Japan has apologized or not. I'd have to look into it.

I think Reagan apologized to Japan, with a financial offer to living survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

And people that were interned were compensated were they not?

But I did find an interesting poll that was done in 1991 about apologies, from either side.



The poll showed further that the two former enemies still view the lessons of war differently, and that there exists in both countries -- but especially in Japan -- some sense of enduring grievance that the hostilities were never entirely resolved.

In Japan, 55 percent said that Japan should apologize for the raid on Pearl Harbor that occurred 50 years ago today, compared with 40 percent of Americans who said Japan should apologize.

Even more strongly, 83 percent of Japanese said that the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the war was morally wrong, and 73 percent said that the United States should apologize with only 16 percent of Americans favoring an apology.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/08/world/pearl-harbor-remembered-japanese-think-they-owe-apology-are-owed-one-war-poll.html

In this case, a well worded apology, the first time a delegation has attended this ceremony, in my opinion, is warranted.
 

Larrry

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I am sorry that we dropped the bombs. I am sorry that you felt the need to bomb Pearl Harbor.
I am not sorry for saving American lives. A Japanese surrender would have stopped the war without lives lost on both sides
 
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