Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
If a wrong has been done, an apology is in order. Your perception and moral compass is out of whack.
It was 70 years ago!! No other president felt the need to drag up the past and be so spineless. Maybe he should start worrying more about our present problems!
Why shouldn't our Government apologize to them for that crap our government did to them back then? Your hatred of Obama has clouded your judgement.
That's what happens when you drink the Conservative Kool-Aid. One becomes so blinded by hatred it affects a person rationality.
Posts like this are indicative of "American Exceptionalism" the belief that America has a right to dominate, intimidate, and disrespect other countries and other people without respect to their culture and their traditions and America can do no wrong. These are the original "Ugly Americans".
"The United States apologized Friday for a 1946-1948 research study in which people in Guatemala were intentionally infected with sexually transmitted diseases.
President Barack Obama called his Guatemalan counterpart Friday 'offering profound apologies and asking pardon for the deeds of the 1940s'"
Are you freaking kidding me? If anything we should be apologizing for, this would be one of them.
The problem is not about an apology but "why" and "who" is that sick in our government at the time to do this type of thing? Criminal action by those in charge of a program, they had no right to do the testing on those people.
"The United States apologized Friday for a 1946-1948 research study in which people in Guatemala were intentionally infected with sexually transmitted diseases.
President Barack Obama called his Guatemalan counterpart Friday 'offering profound apologies and asking pardon for the deeds of the 1940s'"
Questions...
1. Will the Guatemalan Govt of that time also apologize to their present day people? It seems highly unlikely that a bunch of US medical researchers would simply show up and start infecting and then monitoring obviously selected "patients" without permission from, and/or collusion with, local authorities.
2. How much was the Guatemalan Govt paid to permit this research?
3. How much "compensation" will accompany this apology?
"The United States apologized Friday for a 1946-1948 research study in which people in Guatemala were intentionally infected with sexually transmitted diseases.
President Barack Obama called his Guatemalan counterpart Friday 'offering profound apologies and asking pardon for the deeds of the 1940s'"
But I have no idea why.
The USA acted under the authority of the Guatemalan government. Guatemala was a partner in the research.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
