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The article quotes exactly what Obama said, condemning the bombs as a "mistake". I suspect he's have preferred that we sacrificed the lives of one million Americans defeating Japan in an invasion, rather than to have used nukes, based on HIS statements.
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Seriously, why doesn't this guy just go away forever. He has no right to speak on events that are way over his head. The lowest man in the marines, the guy on discipline duty cleaning out the crappers has more honor than Obama. How dare he.
You keep using that term. I do not think you know what it means.
OK, let's call it what it is - lies. Like that better?
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The article quotes exactly what Obama said, condemning the bombs as a "mistake".
Ehm - it doesn't. It quotes Obama saying that something was a mistake:
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"For this, too, is what makes our species unique," he said. "We’re not bound by genetic code to repeat the mistakes of the past. We can learn. We can choose"
That's the quote.
If you were to read the Hiroshima address in its entirety, it's clear that President Obama is addressing war itself as a mistake humanity needs to stop repeating - this entire paragraph precedes the "mistake" statement:
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Originally Posted by Obama
For we see around the world today how even the crudest rifles and barrel bombs can serve up violence on a terrible scale. We must change our mind-set about war itself. To prevent conflict through diplomacy and strive to end conflicts after they’ve begun. To see our growing interdependence as a cause for peaceful cooperation and not violent competition. To define our nations not by our capacity to destroy but by what we build. And perhaps, above all, we must reimagine our connection to one another as members of one human race.
For this, too, is what makes our species unique. We’re not bound by genetic code to repeat the mistakes of the past. We can learn. We can choose. We can tell our children a different story, one that describes a common humanity, one that makes war less likely and cruelty less easily accepted.
That right there provides context for what mistake is to be avoided: That of starting war if it can be avoided. (Churchill said it more succinctly: "To jaw-jaw always is better than to war-war", but I suspect that's not really the tone Obama was going for.) WWII was a mistake on an obscene level, a complete miscalculation on part of the Axis Powers, and one that both sides paid for.
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I suspect he's have preferred that we sacrificed the lives of one million Americans defeating Japan in an invasion, rather than to have used nukes, based on HIS statements.
Really? There are some right-wing posters on this board I have marked down as too dumb to follow a line of thought that extends across several paragraphs. You're not one of them. Have I been wrong?
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