Obama goes to Hiroshima, and naturally, screws it up

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by wdmso

We may not be able to eliminate man’s capacity to do evil

that what was said..
it is not what you imagination has told us he
said .. which was its "evil" for us to drop the bomb," not much different then saying I think racism was the only reason we dropped the Bomb

"We may not be able to eliminate man’s capacity to do evil

that what was said.. "

No. He said "we shall not repeat the evil". That's not my imagination, it is an exact quote. You may not like it, but it's what the man said.

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Originally Posted by Jim in CT

"We may not be able to eliminate man’s capacity to do evil

that what was said.. "

No. He said "we shall not repeat the evil". That's not my imagination, it is an exact quote. You may not like it, but it's what the man said.

Jim, he did not say that. You've been conned by fake news. Read my previous post...

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

Jim, he did not say that. You've been conned by fake news. Read my previous post...

Those right-wing nuts at The Huffington Post reported that Obama used the phrase "we shall not repeat the evil". Looks like you are 100% correct, in that he didn't say it. I got it from The Huffington Ppost, not from Glenn Beck.

Here is a text of the speech from the Washington Post, as liberal as it gets...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...dae_story.html

Some notable comments...

"It is not the fact of war that sets Hiroshima apart. Artifacts tell us that violent conflict appeared with the very first man. Our early ancestors, having learned to make blades from flint and spears from wood, used these tools not just for hunting but against their own kind. On every continent, the history of civilization is filled with war"

In other words, our idiot-in-chief is saying that there was nothing unique or extraordinary about Japan's role in WWII. Tell that to the Chinese, or the captured American flyers (the ones that were not eaten, I mean).

"Every great religion promises a pathway to love and peace and righteousness. And yet no religion has been spared from believers who have claimed their faith as a license to kill."

Yeah, yeah, yeah...there's no difference between Christianity and Islam, or between Christianity and the worship of Emperor Hirohito, we get it...

"Those who died, they are like us"

Wrong. Those who died at Hiroshima, were prepared to fight to the death of their last toddler, and for what? So their country could continue its barbaric conquest of murder, rape, and cannibalism. If they were "like us", they wouldn't have embarked on a goal of global genocide. That was the whole problem...they weren't like us, not at all.

"death fell from the sky "

Peace and freedom also fell from the sky. He seems to have failed to mention that part.

Where in the speech did Obama say, "if you engage on a global quest of genocide, you will be brought to your knees, and you will get exactly what's coming to you?" Granted, many innocents got caught up in that. But the blame lies with the Japanese, not with us.

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Originally Posted by Jim in CT

Looks like you are 100% correct, in that he didn't say it.

You could have stopped here.

[scottw]

Originally Posted by spence

Jim, he did not say that. You've been conned by fake news. Read my previous post...

not exactly...it was originally reported by UPI(fake news) that he said this, later corrected that it was the translation on the monument


An earlier version of this story mistakenly attributed a quote to Obama. "Let all the souls here rest in peace, for we shall not repeat the evil" is the English translation of the epitaph from the Hiroshima memorial. It was not part of Obama's speech.

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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by scottw

not exactly...it was originally reported by UPI(fake news) that he said this, later corrected that it was the translation on the monument


An earlier version of this story mistakenly attributed a quote to Obama. "Let all the souls here rest in peace, for we shall not repeat the evil" is the English translation of the epitaph from the Hiroshima memorial. It was not part of Obama's speech.

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Correct, it's the epitaph at the Heroshima memorial. Where Obama laid a wreath, which necessarily means he endorses what it says.

Today is the anniversary of D-day. Maybe Obama will say "let us remember the innocent victims of the Panzer divisions and the Luftwaffe, who were minding their own business, throwing frisbees and grilling some bratwursts at Omaha Beach, when DEATH emerged from the Higgins boats and rained fire and lead on the sunbathing Germans. Our world has known war since man first learned to talk, therefore what the Germans were doing in WWII is no different than what any other country has ever done. So who are we to sit in judgement of others."

We have a commander-in-chief, who cannot correctly discern the good guys from the bad guys, in WWII of all conflicts. There is nothing in the entire historical record simpler than that, and he couldn't do it.

Obama - always wrong, yet never in doubt.