Obama Wanted To Apologize To Japan For Winning The War They Started

66 years ago after some of the bloodiest fighting ever United States of America forces were contemplating the invasion of Japan. 4 years earlier Japan started the war we were fighting with a sneak attack on our forces at Pearl Harbor. The best estimates by military and intelligence agencies put the loss of life in such an invasion of Japan as high as a million plus lives. Instead the US dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima killing approximately 240,000 people which was approximately one fourth the projected death toll of an invasion. The two bombs also had the psychological effect of defeating the Japanese after the second bomb was dropped.

Obama wanted to apologize for Democrat President Harry S. Truman not only winning the war against the US, but also for lessening the death toll. These apologies were to be part of Obama's worldwide apology tour.

One stop on his tour was Prague in August 2009. There he spoke of “America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,” ignoring that before 1945 we lived in such a world and it was neither peaceful nor secure.
Another stop on the tour was in Japan, where Obama in November 2009 bowed to the emperor, something no American president had ever done. It could have been worse if plans to visit Nagasaki and Hiroshima to apologize for winning the war with the atom bombs had come to pass.
A heretofore secret cable dated Sept. 3, 2009, was recently released by WikiLeaks. Sent to Secretary of State Clinton, it reported Japan’s Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka telling U.S. Ambassador John Roos that “the idea of President Obama visiting Hiroshima to apologize for the atomic bombing during World War II is a ‘nonstarter.’”
The Japanese feared the apology would be exploited by anti-nuclear groups and those opposed to the defensive alliance between Japan and the U.S.

The rank amateurism of the Obama administration is personified in this story. First, the US has nothing to apologize for. We didn't start the war nor did we force the Japanese to ally with the Nazis of Germany in a war against the United States. Second, the Obama administration so misread the Japanese as they gleefully pursued an agenda of putting America in its place in a way that no foreign power would or could. Third, the Obama administration completely misunderstood the American people, especially the millions who had relatives who had family members that fought and died in the attack on the United States. Lose. Lose. Lose.


The Japanese are well aware of who started WWII. They may not want to discuss it, but they are aware. The Japanese are also a proud and self sufficient people who do not want our apologies. As with the more recent Tsunami the Japanese didn't want the sympathy as they could and did lift themselves up. The Japanese find such a gesture that Obama and his minions thought so brilliant in its "kindness" embarrassing and a sign of weakness. So do most Americans. Not Obama. Apologizing to Japan for the atomic bombs ending a war Japan started and lost would, for Obama, show America's contriteness for winning.

If America wants to show contriteness it should apologize to the world by defeating the embarrassment of having elected Obama in the first place.

Deceit And Destruction At Pearl Harbor

December 7th, 1941

USA : 218 KIA, 364 WIA.
USN: 2,008 KIA, 710 WIA.
USMC: 109 KIA, 69 WIA.
Civilians: 68 KIA, 35 WIA.

TOTAL: 2,403 KIA, 1,178 WIA.

Battleships
USS Arizona (BB-39) - total loss when a bomb hit her magazine.
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) - Total loss when she capsized and sunk in the harbor.
USS California (BB-44) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.
USS West Virginia (BB-48) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.
USS Nevada - (BB-36) Beached to prevent sinking. Later repaired.
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) - Light damage.
USS Maryland (BB-46) - Light damage.
USS Tennessee (BB-43) Light damage.
USS Utah (AG-16) - (former battleship used as a target) - Sunk.

Cruisers
USS New Orleans (CA-32) - Light Damage.
USS San Francisco (CA-38) - Light Damage.
USS Detroit (CL-8) - Light Damage.
USS Raleigh (CL-7) - Heavily damaged but repaired.
USS Helena (CL-50) - Light Damage.
USS Honolulu (CL-48) - Light Damage..

Destroyers
USS Downes (DD-375) - Destroyed. Parts salvaged.
USS Cassin - (DD-372) Destroyed. Parts salvaged.
USS Shaw (DD-373) - Very heavy damage.
USS Helm (DD-388) - Light Damage.

Minelayer
USS Ogala (CM-4) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.

Seaplane Tender
USS Curtiss (AV-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired.

Repair Ship
USS Vestal (AR-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired.

Harbor Tug
USS Sotoyomo (YT-9) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.

Aircraft
188 Aircraft destroyed (92 USN and 92 U.S Army Air Corps.)

The Cape Cod: The Original Levittown House

A Cape Cod house is a modest symmetrical style that originated in colonial New England and became popular again in the 1930s, '40s and '50s. Today, examples of the Cape Cod style can be seen across the United States. The name was coined by Yale President Timothy Dwight when he traveled through the region in the 1790s, says Architecture Week.

According to the Library of Congress, Cape Cod houses are sometimes also called "Cape-style houses." Originally, Cape Cod houses had just one story and two rooms, situated side-by-side. When the style enjoyed a resurgence in the 20th century, Cape Cod house plans became larger with more rooms. The homes generally have a simple rectangular frame, often clapboarded, with a ridge roof that can allow for attic living, and a large chimney in the center of the roof, directly above the front door.

 

Cape Cod houses have served their purpose as sturdy, economical dwellings for centuries, says About.com. It is easy to tell the difference, however, between colonial Cape Cod houses and modern ones. Telltale giveaways are any adornments, like shutters and dormers, which are protrusions from the roof.

Then in the late 1940's came the man who understood that American society had been changed by WWII and the men and women who had left home to fight. Out with the old and in with the new and part of the new was a new house which was not shared with parents. Abraham Levitt and his sons, one of whom was serving in the Navy, understood that 16 million men and women were returning and wanted homes. Thus began Levittown. The new town got variances for no basements, no foundations and other time and money saving variances from the old town of Hempstead and were built in an assembly line fashion. Levitt and Sons did things differently, but used quality product, few floor plans and had 1,000 of the 2,000 planned units sold or rented before construction began. Each house was planned to be a starter home which could be modified or added onto later. By the end of 1951 Levitt and Sons had built 17,447 homes in Levittown and the surrounding area. No other private builder had ever achieved such a feat.

Almost every house built there is still standing. Most have been enlarged, modified or changed in some other way. When first built many scoffed at the rubes that had rented (most were originally rented) or bought. Whole new communities of upwardly mobile ex-servicemen sprang up creating huge economic waves. Relatives or the dubious began to scoff less and look more at the neighborhoods of cute and well maintained "cottages", many moved to the new neighborhoods continuing to make the houses more valuable.

Today, as in all towns, there are nicer areas of town, but overall Levittown is a close knit community where neighbors know and take care of each other. Some additions were poorly thought out, but most were done very well for newer tastes and growing families. Currently, Levittown is once again going though changes utilizing new design techniques and new building technology. If for no other reason one should visit during the Christmas season where you will see displays that are unbelievable. Last year there were groups of carolers that roamed neighborhoods, especially to visit with the house bound, sick or just alone. The carolers knew which houses needed a little extra love. That's a neighborhood.

Obama Blows Off D-Day's 66th Anniversary For Theater Gala And Drinks

The program that Obama attended after gourmet canapes and drinks at the White House:

The programme:
Ty Burrell, welcome
Kelly Clarkson, "Everybody Got Their Something" and "Way Over Yonder"
George Lopez
From the Ford's Theatre production of Little Shop of Horrors
Christopher Kale Jones and Jenna Coker-Jones, "Suddenly, Seymour"
Soldiers' Chorus of the United States Army Field Band
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee" and "America the Beautiful" Robin Roberts, family life in the White House
Dick Van Dyke and The Vantastix, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Medley"
Lionel Richie, "Three Times a Lady" and "All Night Long" with the Joyce Garrett Celebration Singers

INTERMISSION

Presentation of the Lincoln Medals
Renee Fleming, "Soul Meets Body" and "In Your Eyes"
Cast members from Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Broadway musical Mary Poppins
Laura Kelly and Gavin Lee, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
From the Broadway musical Memphis Montego Glover, "Colored Woman"
General Colin Powell, a special tribute Renee Fleming, Soldiers' Chorus of the United States Army Field Band, Bill Conti and the Spirit of America Orchestra with the Entire Company "Battle Hymn of the Republic"

What Obama didn't think important:
 
D-Day casualties:

British - 2700
Canadians - 946
Americans - 6603

15,000-20,000 French civilians died with an unknown number of casualites.
 Britain: 2,700 killed
United States: 1,465 killed
Canada: 500 killed
 Germany: 4,000 killed

I could not find any reference to the soldiers or civilians singing "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" or enjoying canapes of any kind, but what is important here is that Obama has some quality down time from all the great work he has been doing on that spill, jobs and the economy not to mention Israel and Palestine.

I'm sure all soldiers understand the sacrifice he has made for the country.

June 6, 1944

Photograph by Robert Capa.