Obama to become first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima
Source: The Guardian
Barack Obama has announced he will visit Hiroshima, Japan, becoming the first sitting president to visit the site where the US dropped an atomic bomb in 1945, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the final days of the second world war.
In a statement the White House confirmed the visit, saying Obamas visit will highlight his continued commitment to pursuing peace and security in a world without nuclear weapons.
Earlier this month the White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, said the president does not believe the US should apologize for its use of atom bombs on Japan in 1945, a point reiterated by his national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, on Tuesday.
He will not revisit the decision to use the atomic bomb at the end of World War II, Rhodes wrote in a post on Medium. This visit will offer an opportunity to honor the memory of all innocents who were lost during the war.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/10/obama-hiroshima-japan-visit-second-world-war
Justin McCurry in Tokyo and Alan Yuhas in New York
Tuesday 10 May 2016 14.16 BST
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)That would be like apologizing in Normandy for the D-Day landings.
forest444
(5,902 posts)Or do you exclude your own country from that callous standard of yours.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)without nuclear weapons."
Except for us. of course.
And this after Kissinger...
And buffalo instead of human beings..
StarTrombone
(188 posts)And Truman's decision to drop nuclear weapons on civilian populations
It remains a stain on the Democratic party to this day
Leontius
(2,270 posts)EX500rider
(10,868 posts).....can I just link to the one we just had so we don't all have to retype all this? lol
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1409738