Over/Under- How Many Apologies will Obama Give in Asia?

[Geaux4it]

I say...... (2)

As the first POTUS to travel to Hiroshima, again shows- Obama everyday show us just how UnAmerican he is. He will apologize for saving American lives?

In Vietnam he will apologize for us waving the white flag.

Next, Obama will apologize and order a nuke on his own cities just like the movie?

-Geaux

 

[irosie91]

I INSIST-----that Trumps first executive order MUST BE
RESCIND THE OBAMA BOWS, CURTSIES, AND APOLOGIES!!!!!!!!

 

[OldLady]

In answer to the title, ZERO.

 

[irosie91]

In answer to the title, ZERO.

honored OLD ONE-------I think you lose

 

[Geaux4it]

In answer to the title, ZERO.

Pay attention to the word smithing when he is there.

-Geaux

 

[irosie91]

In answer to the title, ZERO.

Pay attention to the word smithing when he is there.

-Geaux

smithing? as in horse shoes and daggers?

 

[JoeB131]

As the first POTUS to travel to Hiroshima, again shows- Obama everyday show us just how UnAmerican he is. He will apologize for saving American lives?

Hiroshima didn't save any American lives. The Japanese surrendered because the USSR entered the Pacific War. They recaptured more territory in a week than the Americans had recaptured in three years.

 

[Geaux4it]

As the first POTUS to travel to Hiroshima, again shows- Obama everyday show us just how UnAmerican he is. He will apologize for saving American lives?

Hiroshima didn't save any American lives. The Japanese surrendered because the USSR entered the Pacific War. They recaptured more territory in a week than the Americans had recaptured in three years.

No Joey, the Nukes ended the war. Sorry you can't accept that

-Geaux

 

[irosie91]

As the first POTUS to travel to Hiroshima, again shows- Obama everyday show us just how UnAmerican he is. He will apologize for saving American lives?

Hiroshima didn't save any American lives. The Japanese surrendered because the USSR entered the Pacific War. They recaptured more territory in a week than the Americans had recaptured in three years.

No Joey, the Nukes ended the war. Sorry you can't accept that

-Geaux

leave joey alone-----he still mourns the passing of stalin

 

[blastoff]

I'm going with three.

However, I'm sure Barry will ask the Japs to apologize for murdering, torturing, and otherwise brutalizing thousands of allied POWs. Whether he suggests they also apologize to China for the rape of Nanking and enslaving thousands of women as sex toys for their troops I'm not sure about.

 

[Weatherman2020]

I bet Obama cries from Colonialism guilt.

 

[Weatherman2020]

As the first POTUS to travel to Hiroshima, again shows- Obama everyday show us just how UnAmerican he is. He will apologize for saving American lives?

Hiroshima didn't save any American lives. The Japanese surrendered because the USSR entered the Pacific War. They recaptured more territory in a week than the Americans had recaptured in three years.

The Stupid it burns! Honestly, you have to go to a college to learn to be that ignorant.

 

[Stephanie]

I bet he wells up a few tears while telling them how awful we are for everything we've done. It's will be his last Big State show to run us down.

 

[blastoff]

I bet he wells up a few tears while telling them how awful we are for everything we've done. It's will be his last Big State show to run us down.

Oh I doubt it will be the last.

That's a topic for another over/under IMO.

 

[The VOR]

I bet he wells up a few tears while telling them how awful we are for everything we've done. It's will be his last Big State show to run us down.

aW gAWD! look what he does to US;;that democrat/commie/muslim/homosexual/commie/socialist/commie. Aw Gawd] HE does to US.

 

[JoeB131]

No Joey, the Nukes ended the war. Sorry you can't accept that

what did the nukes specifically do that carpet bombing the rest of Japan's cities didn't do?

On the other hand, we know what the USSR getting into the war meant. It means Japan had a whole new front to fight on, one that they had very few forces deployed against (Manchuria, Korea and Hokkado had been largely stripped of resources to protect other fronts).

It meant that some of Japan might have been occupied by the Soviets, who had already gained a wonderful reputation for raping the shit out of German women.

 

[JoeB131]

The Stupid it burns! Honestly, you have to go to a college to learn to be that ignorant.

You're right. You see, if you went to a college, they'd have shown you documents like Truman's diary where even he admits that getting the USSR into the War with Japan was key to winning it.

You'd know that military leaders like Eisenhower and MacArthur were against using the atomic bomb against Japan, as it was unnecessary and cruel.

Here, let me help you out.

Hiroshima: Quotes

"...in [July] 1945... Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act. ...the Secretary, upon giving me the news of the successful bomb test in New Mexico, and of the plan for using it, asked for my reaction, apparently expecting a vigorous assent.

"During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face'. The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude..."

- Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate For Change, pg. 380

In a Newsweek interview, Eisenhower again recalled the meeting with Stimson:

"...the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing."

- Ike on Ike, Newsweek, 11/11/63


MacArthur biographer William Manchester has described MacArthur's reaction to the issuance by the Allies of the Potsdam Proclamation to Japan: "...the Potsdam declaration in July, demand[ed] that Japan surrender unconditionally or face 'prompt and utter destruction.' MacArthur was appalled. He knew that the Japanese would never renounce their emperor, and that without him an orderly transition to peace would be impossible anyhow, because his people would never submit to Allied occupation unless he ordered it. Ironically, when the surrender did come, it was conditional, and the condition was a continuation of the imperial reign. Had the General's advice been followed, the resort to atomic weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki might have been unnecessary."

William Manchester, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964, pg. 512.