Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Hiroshima Hails Atom Bomb

From Scott Ott at Scrappleface:

Hiroshima Survivors Celebrate Life-Saving Atomic Bomb
by Scott Ott
(2005-08-06) -- Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima marked the 60th anniversary of the first use of nuclear weapons in war by celebrating the end of the totalitarian rule of Emperor Hirohito, whose blind ambition caused 1.5 million Japanese military casualities and some 672,000 civilian casualities.

The hibakusha, or bomb-affected persons, issued a statement condemning totalitarianism and urging people who now live in dictatorships to "bring down their own governments before some outside force must do so for the good of the world."

"Each year at this time we usually gather to call for nuclear disarmament," said an unnamed Hiroshima survivor, "but with age comes wisdom. We now realize that despite its horrors, the atomic bomb was a life-saving device that ushered in a new era of Japanese freedom and prosperity. If the American president had not intervened, Hirohito would have squeezed the blood out of our people to the last drop."

The survivors' statement urged the United Nations to "learn the lesson of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and thus give up the delusion that dictators will bend to reason, bribes, half-measures or concessions."

The hibakusha called on the U.N. to "rise up and live out the true meaning of its charter: collective preemptive action to ensure peace by removing threats to peace."
OK, so it's a joke news report, but in a perfect world this is what the whiny Japanese warmongers turned pacifists would really be saying.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

In a perfect world we would be supporting the remilitarization of Japan as the only viable counterweight to China. Had our predecessors not meddled in Asian business by cutting off metal and oil to Japan, there would have been no necessity for war between them and us to decide the destiny of the Pacific. Whatever one thinks of the Japanese occupation, they knew how to deal with Communists.
As with the Third Reich, the people we fought were in many ways more admirable than the societies we defended.

Wed Sep 28, 11:56:00 AM 2005  

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