Obama wanted to apologize for Hiroshima, Nagasaki

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Conservation Voice wrote: I do know I am embarrassed that my country is the only country in history to drop the atomic bomb.

That makes one of us. I'm much more embarrassed by the $16.5 Trillion in federal debt and the $100+ Trillion in future unfunded liabilities than I am the necessary and decisive action that was taken to bring a war to a sure and successful end.

Conservation Voice wrote: If Germany had finished developing heavy water and dropped the A-bomb on NYC and Washington DC, during the war, do you think we'd be owed an apology later?

Nope - under that scenario we'd be the ones who declared war on someone and then unable to win that war. The losers of a war generally don't get an apology, especially when they are the ones that started the war to begin with. I think they should be satisfied that we didn't make them territories of this nation and instead allowed them to retain a national independence and identity instead of toiling to pay for the largess of our federal government.

I'm not embarrassed by use of the atomic bomb on Japan during WWII. It was estimated that there would be 1.6 million American casualties in an assault on the Japanese islands. My dad was in the European theater and was waiting for orders to the Pacific Theater when Japan surrendered.

And let's remember it was a Democrat who ordered the bombs. While I have seen graphic displays of what the Japanese suffered at the U.S. Army Medical Museum, I have also seen what the Japanese military did to our service people. Run down that list of atrocities. There are plenty of Asian countries that hate Japan to this day. We Americans chose to move on. At least, some of us did.

Thanks, outdoor, for reminding us of some of the reasons for using the A-bomb. It was not a decision made lightly.

Oh, to add to PrintSmith, we also allowed Japan to keep its emperor.

MacArthur was a master in building post-war Japan.

MacArthur was a megalomaniac and got thousands of our troops killed needlessly.