In Hiroshima 71 years after first atomic strike, Obama the apologizing fag lover calls for end of nuclear weapons

[He's A Hippy!]

What a gutless piece of shit. The brother fucker an go to Japan
and make a pretense of "praying", while in America he
disrespects and attacks all religions except for Islam. What a
disgrace to American leadership.

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Nearly 71 years after an American bomber
passed high above this Japanese city on a clear August morning
for a mission that would alter history, President Obama on
Friday called for an end to nuclear weapons in a solemn visit to
Hiroshima to offer respects to the victims of the world’s first
deployed atomic bomb.

Writing in the Hiroshima Peace Park guest book, Obama called for
the courage to “spread peace and pursue a world without nuclear
weapons.” In later remarks, he said that scientific strides must
be matched by moral progress or mankind was doomed.

Obama’s visit, the first to Hiroshima by a sitting U.S.
president, had stirred great anticipation here and across Japan
among those who longed for an American leader to acknowledge the
suffering of the estimated 140,000 killed during the bombing on
Aug. 6, 1945, and its aftermath. That figure includes 20,000
Koreans who had been forced by the Japanese military to work in
the city for the imperial war machine.

Three days later in 1945, a second U.S. atomic bomb in Nagasaki
killed a total of 80,000, including another 30,000 Koreans. Most
of those killed in both cities were civilians. The Japanese
emperor announced his nation’s surrender a week later.

On Friday, people lined streets as Obama’s motorcade entered the
city. The presidential limousine pulled up behind the Peace
Memorial Museum.

In the park, guests were seated just in front of the curved,
concrete cenotaph that pays tribute to the dead with an eternal
flame burning just beyond it. The Genbaku Dome, or A-bomb dome,
the preserved, skeletal remnants of a municipal building
destroyed in the blast, was visible in the distance.

National security adviser Susan E. Rice and Ambassador Caroline
Kennedy walked out from near the museum, along with their
Japanese counterparts, followed by Obama and Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe.

Then Obama was handed a wreath and laid it on a stand in front
of the cenotaph. He bowed his head and stood silently for a
minute. Abe then did the same.

“We come to ponder a terrible force unleashed in a not-so-
distant past,” Obama said. The souls of the people who died in
this city “speak to us,” he added. “They ask us to look inward,
to take stock of who we are and what we might become.”

The president called for nations to reconsider the development
of nuclear weapons and to roll back and “ultimately eliminate”
them.

“The world was forever changed here,” he said. “But today, the
children of this city will go through their day in peace. What a
precious thing that is. It is worth protecting, and then
extending to every child. That is the future we can choose, a
future in which Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known not for the
dawn of atomic warfare but as the start of our own moral
awakening.”

After the remarks, Obama and Abe walked to the front row to
greet Sunao Tsuboi, a survivor of the atomic blast, who stood up
clutching a walking cane. Then Obama greeted Shigeaki Mori,
another survivor, giving him a hug.

The president and prime minister then walked north toward the
dome. Reporters rushing to get photographs of the two got
involved in an aggressive shoving match with Secret Service
agents and Japanese security officials.

Obama and Abe stood together gazing at the dome for several
minutes. Abe appeared to be explaining the significance to
Obama. To their left was a statue of Sadako, a child who died of
radiation and became known for her colorful paper cranes, which
have become a symbol of Hiroshima’s effort to promote peace.

Obama’s motorcade snaked back through the city to the
helicopters waiting to ferry the president on the start of his
journey home after a week-long Asian trip.

Obama’s visit was infused with symbolism for the two nations
that have evolved from bitter World War II enemies into close
allies.

Prior to the ceremony, Obama visited the Marine Corps Air
Station in Iwakuni, about 25 miles south of Hiroshima, and spoke
to a group of U.S. and Japanese troops. He told them that his
trip to Hiroshima is “an opportunity to honor the memory of all
who were lost during World War II.”

Obama added: “It’s a chance to reaffirm our commitment to
pursuing the peace and security of a world where nuclear weapons
would no longer be necessary. And it’s a testament to how even
the most painful divides can be bridged; how our two nations —
former adversaries — cannot just become partners but become the
best of friends and the strongest of allies.”

The Iwakuni base, where U.S. Marines work side-by-side with
Japanese forces, “is a powerful example of the trust and the
cooperation and the friendship between the United States and
Japan,” he said.

Previous U.S. presidents had avoided Hiroshima over fears that a
visit would be regarded as an apology for President Harry
Truman’s decision to authorize the bombings, which historians
say were carried out in an attempt to avoid a planned invasion
of Japan.

But Obama and his advisers believed the time was right, in his
final year in office, to make the pilgrimage — not as an apology
but rather to highlight the alliance between the two nations and
to warn of the dangers of modern nuclear weapons exponentially
more powerful than the bombs dropped in Japan.

Obama has had mixed success in reducing and safeguarding global
stockpiles of nuclear weapons and fissile materials. Aides said
he hoped his visit, with seven months left in office, would
reaffirm the U.S. commitment to nuclear disarmament and
nonproliferation.

A day before his visit while attending an economic summit in Ise
City, Obama called the use of atomic bombs an “inflection point
in modern history” and said the fate of such weapons “is
something that all of us have had to deal with in one way or
another.”

For Obama, another challenge is to use the visit to advance the
process of reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific region, where old
wartime grievances have been slower to heal than among some of
the European combatants of World War II.

Obama sought to make clear that while all sides suffered, all
sides also bear responsibility for the horrors of war, even as
Japan and its neighbors continue a bitter debate over long-ago
wartime atrocities.

The White House has said it would welcome Abe to Pearl Harbor,
where plans are underway to mark the 75th anniversary of the
Japanese attack on Dec. 7. One senior U.S. official said he
would be surprised if Abe did not come, though the prime
minister said at a news conference this week that he had no such
plans at this time.

Abe reminded reporters that he gave a speech to the U.S.
Congress during a state visit to Washington last spring that
reflected on the war and the sacrifices of Americans. The prime
minister also accompanied Obama on a tour of the World War II
Memorial, where Abe laid a wreath and prayed for the souls of
the dead.

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