For all the talk about stopping N. Korea and Iran from attaining nuclear weapons, it is important to remember that only one country ever used nuclear weapons, and that was the United States. Today is the 64th Anniversary of the dropping of an American atomic nuclear device on Hiroshima. President Harry Truman was without doubt a bloody war criminal whose order to drop the bombs directly caused the deaths of 100,000 souls in each city - Hiroshima and then in Nagasaki. Why no charges against Truman or the others who carried out his immoral and illegal nuclear crimes such as the pilot of the Enola Gay? Simple. There are never any charges of war crimes brought against the victors.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
SAD ANNIVERSARY OF U.S. DROPPING ATOMIC BOMB ON INHABITANTS OF HIROSHIMA
Yesterday was the 62nd anniversary of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This makes the United States the only country in the whole world to actually use and detonate an atomic weapon.
When we consider the casualties from this one bomb, over 140,000 lives destroyed, how is it possible that some of the Republican and Democratic candidates for president could reserve the use of atomic weapons in some future conflict? Where is their value of human life? Where is any sign of rudimentary ethical morality?
Second, how do Americans in succeeding generations blithely and without guilt look back at August 6, 1945, and reflect on what other Americans of a previous generation did to the inhabitants of Hiroshima on that morning? The Enola Gay crew just were following orders, orders coming directly from President Harry F. Truman.
The whole country needs to rise up and repudiate future nuclear irresponsibility
About the only candidate to openly dismiss the nuclear option is Barack Obama. All the other small minds belittle him for declaring that he would not use nuclear weapons, implying that they would. It makes you ashamed to be an American.
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