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| Barack Obama to visit Hiroshima on Asia trip | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 10 2016, 08:51 AM (752 Views) | |
| Che On The Rocks | May 10 2016, 08:51 AM Post #1 |
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Free Milagro Sala! What happened to Santiago Maldonado? What happened to ARA San Juan? Mapuche Lives Matter! Stop the political persecution in Argentina! Stop the looting of Argentina! | |
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| Robert Stout | May 10 2016, 01:31 PM Post #2 |
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In Remembrance of American good old days............
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| Che On The Rocks | May 23 2016, 07:41 AM Post #3 |
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Obama: Hiroshima visit to emphasize current U.S. ties with Japan
Sunday, May 22, 2016 The gutted Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, currently known as Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome, is seen after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, in this handout photo taken by U.S. Army in November, 1945, and distributed by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. REUTERS/U.S. Army/Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum/Handout via Reuters Japan to press Obama to get strict on crime from U.S. bases
U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrive for a joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, April 28, 2015. REUTERS/KEVIN LAMARQUE/FILE PHOTO U.S. lifts arms ban on old foe Vietnam as regional tensions simmer
Monday, May 23, 2016 U.S. President Barack Obama (L) attends a bilateral meeting with Vietnam's General Secretary of the Communist Party and National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong at Central Office of the Communist Party of Vietnam in Hanoi, Vietnam May 23, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria |
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Free Milagro Sala! What happened to Santiago Maldonado? What happened to ARA San Juan? Mapuche Lives Matter! Stop the political persecution in Argentina! Stop the looting of Argentina! | |
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| Robert Stout | May 23 2016, 07:51 PM Post #4 |
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It just ain't right that we arm our former NVA commie enemies...I guess this is what we can expect from Obama...Would Argentina sell guns and warships to Britain ???.............
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| Che On The Rocks | May 27 2016, 07:55 AM Post #5 |
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Despite Obama’s Moves, Asian Nations Skeptical of U.S. Commitment
![]() President Obama during a news conference with President Tran Dai Quang of Vietnam on Monday in Hanoi. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Hiroshima memory must never fade, Obama says on historic visit
![]() Mr Obama and Mr Abe both laid wreaths at the Peace Memorial Park |
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Free Milagro Sala! What happened to Santiago Maldonado? What happened to ARA San Juan? Mapuche Lives Matter! Stop the political persecution in Argentina! Stop the looting of Argentina! | |
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| dcbl | May 27 2016, 09:07 AM Post #6 |
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Good guys wear white hats
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perhaps our fearless leader is trying to create attention for a huge proplem that needs to be addressed :duno:
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Republicans sign checks on the front, democrats sign them on the back…True story! | |
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| voted4reagan | May 27 2016, 12:28 PM Post #7 |
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I can honestly say I thought he would Apologize. I can respect him a bit more since he didn't. on the whole... well played. Not amazing... but good trip |
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Trump needs to focus more so on the male vote. He should have nationalized the Boy Scouts when they decided to admit girls. Harambe4Trump AKA "FASHY" | |
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| BuckFan | May 27 2016, 01:26 PM Post #8 |
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So should we sell arms to Japan, Germany or Italy? How far do we go back? England, after all we fought several wars with them and they burnt our capitol. The fact is Vietnam has become an important player in countering Chinese interest in the South China Sea. Life moves on and so do old foes. |
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| BuckFan | May 27 2016, 01:27 PM Post #9 |
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And Trump wants to expand the nations with nuclear weapons. |
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| lucash | May 27 2016, 01:53 PM Post #10 |
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#NeverTrump
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He should have apologized. What was done was barbaric, regardless of the justification back then. In fact, we ought to apologize profusely to the Japanese people affected by the internment camps, propaganda against them, criminalization of their being who they are, etc. Whether or not there are positives in that era, there were also detestable actions and behavior. Would we say the same (no apology) about racism/slavery? If bad decisions happen, we need to own up to it and shed this bulls**t macho, no apologies approach. We're A country in the world, not the only one. s**t happens, we're not perfect. |
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| dcbl | May 27 2016, 01:56 PM Post #11 |
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we need to apologize to the people of Georgia, USA - ESPECIALLY those from Atlanta for Sherman's heinous war crimes as well |
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Republicans sign checks on the front, democrats sign them on the back…True story! | |
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| Dem4life | Aug 6 2016, 11:40 AM Post #12 |
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Japan remembers Hiroshima, urges world to follow Obama and visit http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-hiroshima-idUSKCN10G2IG?il=0 Japan marked the 71st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Saturday as its mayor urged world leaders to follow in U.S. President Barack Obama's footsteps and visit, and ultimately rid the world of nuclear arms. A peace bell tolled at 8:15 a.m. (2315 GMT on Friday), the time a U.S. warplane dropped the bomb. About 50,000 participants including aging survivors and dignitaries held a moment of silence at a memorial ceremony in the western Japanese city. Obama this year became the first incumbent U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, and he urged nuclear powers, including his own, to have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue a world without nuclear weapons. "The president's words showed he was touched by the spirit of Hiroshima, which refuses to accept the 'absolute evil'," the mayor, Kazumi Matsui, told the crowd, referring to the weapons. The United States dropped the bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, killing thousands of people instantly and about 140,000 by the end of that year. U.S. forces dropped another atomic bomb on the southern city of Nagasaki on Aug. 9. Japan surrendered six days later. "I once again urge the leaders of all nations to visit the A-bombed cities," Matsui said as cicadas buzzed away under the mid-summer sun. [b]"As President Obama confirmed in Hiroshima, such visits will surely etch the reality of the atomic bombings in each heart." [/b] |
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| Robert Stout | Aug 7 2016, 02:48 AM Post #13 |
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Since Hiroshima, Japan has not attacked Pearl Harbor............
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