USA Should Apologize to Japan For Hiroshima & Nagasaki Video

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Description: "The United States of America Should Apologize to Japan" film, original production from Secret of the Rosary Films, with film clips and music from the public domain (see film for details of credits). From the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 2314 "Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation." A danger of modern warfare is that it provides the opportunity to those who possess modern scientific weapons especially atomic, biological, or chemical weapons - to commit such crimes. Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall pointed out that the use of the bomb was opposed by Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur and Admiral William Leahy, and that the Japanese had been sending out peace feelers for months. Urging exploration of those peace feelers were several Cabinet officers and one ex-president, Herbert Hoover. Instead, they were ignored, and the Enola Gay did its deadly work. In addition, Generals Hap Arnold, Curtis LeMay and William Halsey all reportedly felt the bomb was unnecessary, being either militarily redundant or unnecessarily punitive to an essentially defeated populace. From JOHN McCLOY (Assistant Secretary of War); McCloy quoted in James Reston, Deadline, pg. 500. "I have always felt that if, in our ultimatum to the Japanese government issued from Potsdam [in July 1945], we had referred to the retention of the emperor as a constitutional monarch and had made some reference to the reasonable accessibility of raw materials to the future Japanese government, it would have been accepted. Indeed, I believe that even in the form it was delivered, there was some disposition on the part of the Japanese to give it favorable consideration. When the war was over I arrived at this conclusion after talking with a number of Japanese officials who had been closely associated with the decision of the then Japanese government, to reject the ultimatum, as it was presented. I believe we missed the opportunity of effecting a Japanese surrender, completely satisfactory to us, without the necessity of dropping the bombs." On May 28, 1945, Former President Herbert Hoover visited President Truman and suggested a way to end the Pacific war quickly: "I am convinced that if you, as President, will make a shortwave broadcast to the people of Japan - tell them they can have their Emperor if they surrender, that it will not mean unconditional surrender except for the militarists - you'll get a peace in Japan - you'll have both wars over." On August 8, 1945, after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Hoover wrote to Army and Navy Journal publisher Colonel John Callan O'Laughlin, "The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul." MacArthur biographer William Manchester has described MacArthur's reaction to the issuance by the Allies of the Potsdam Proclamation to Japan: "...the Potsdam declaration in July, demand[ed] that Japan surrender unconditionally or face 'prompt and utter destruction.' MacArthur was appalled. He knew that the Japanese would never renounce their emperor, and that without him an orderly transition to peace would be impossible anyhow, because his people would never submit to Allied occupation unless he ordered it. Ironically, when the surrender did come, it was conditional, and the condition was a continuation of the imperial reign. Had the General's advice been followed, the resort to atomic weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki might have been unnecessary." From William Manchester, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964, pg. 512. Norman Cousins was a consultant to General MacArthur during the American occupation of Japan. Cousins writes of his conversations with MacArthur, "MacArthur's views about the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were starkly different from what the general public supposed." He continues, "When I asked General MacArthur about the decision to drop the bomb, I was surprised to learn he had not even been consulted. What, I asked, would his advice have been? He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor." From Norman Cousins, The Pathology of Power, pg. 65, 70-71.
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julianmaniac ::: Favorites izzit true tht they were losing? my sis said jap made america afraid tht time 07-09-30 07:40:36 __________________________________________________
julianmaniac ::: Favorites wow wow wow!!! jap was gg to surrender? r they joking? jap was bout to win tht time!!! im really laughing 07-09-30 07:36:47 __________________________________________________
iam980 ::: Favorites 「善因與善果」、「惡因和惡果」 07-09-28 15:49:12 __________________________________________________
iam980 ::: Favorites 日本兵殺了人，日本兵就要死。这就是因果法则 佛剑分说不以审判者自居，他不为了惩罚人而杀人，他是为了阻止未来更大的灾难而杀人。他斩的不是站着的"人"，他斩的是未来的" 恶业"。 07-09-28 15:08:29 __________________________________________________
Blueshirts07 ::: Favorites ok how the hell are we supposed to understand that jam980? 07-09-28 11:14:41 __________________________________________________
iam980 ::: Favorites 殺人與被殺的因果法則) 「萬般帶不走，唯有業隨身」 承受最大的果報 受報之時卻往往怨天尤人 07-09-27 15:20:53 __________________________________________________
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iam980 ::: Favorites 「万般将不去，唯有业随身」，一生的罪业，孽镜台前原形毕露，狡赖不得。 地狱 07-09-27 14:24:25 __________________________________________________
Blueshirts07 ::: Favorites "As far as his own life was concerned, one thing seemed quite clear. 'I made one great mistake in my life...when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them." Even Einstein believed there was some justification 07-09-27 08:04:12 __________________________________________________
luxcretia2 ::: Favorites Einstein: "I could burn my finger that I wrote that to Franklin Delano Roosevelt" 07-09-26 18:15:22 __________________________________________________