'We must teach this history': Jill Biden
says in Hiroshima after viewing atomic
bomb site - as she and granddaughter Maisy
arrive late to spouses event leaving audience waiting
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Nikki Schwab
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/19/2023 11:23:05 AM
First lady Jilll Biden told an audience in Hiroshima that 'we must teach this history' after touring the atomic bomb site Friday as part of the G7 summit.
She was speaking in front of private and public university students at the Next Generations' Symposium early Friday evening, which was attended by the summit's spouses, after earlier visiting Hiroshima's Peace Park and Memorial Museum.
Dr. Biden didn't show up with Japan's Yuko Kishida, the United Kingdom's Akshata Murty and Germany's Britta Ernst, arriving with granddaughter Maisy 10 minutes later.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 5/19/2023 11:24:44 AM (No. 1473076)
We used to.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jinx 5/19/2023 11:34:43 AM (No. 1473083)
Being late is rude. Tell her to read TRUMAN by David McCullough. She needs to be educated.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Luandir 5/19/2023 11:39:24 AM (No. 1473087)
Make sure you include Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, the Bataan Death March, and the Rape of Nanking.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Quigley 5/19/2023 11:41:20 AM (No. 1473089)
I guess jill got maizy away from huncher while she’s vacationing - all at taxpayer expense. Very clever, the Grifter Bidets.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Nimby 5/19/2023 11:47:29 AM (No. 1473094)
While her demented spouse wags his fingers and hectors Americans forget history by bringing down confederate statues
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rama41 5/19/2023 11:47:45 AM (No. 1473095)
Maybe we ought to teach the Civil War also, Jill.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jalo1951 5/19/2023 11:48:04 AM (No. 1473098)
Not enough time in school to teach history anymore. Have to do the sex change, gender bender, reason's to hate America, math is racist, white people bad, MAGA Republicans are scary, abortion anytime, anywhere for any reason (it really isn't a human baby), communism for all, who's your daddy - the Government, bug burgers for everyone, no borders are a good thing, police are bad, etc. etc. etc. No time to teach the real history of American.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 5/19/2023 11:48:14 AM (No. 1473100)
Like we haven't been immersed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki since the days the bombs were dropped. Not so much the Japanese atrocities the let up to it, though. In addition to the ones that #3 listed, let's not forget the Japanese vivisection of eight American pilots they captured.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/19/2023 11:48:15 AM (No. 1473101)
People have been trying to make the United States the world's villain. Been going on for decades. Now they want to call it history. Bet all the people that started this had Russian and Chinese accents.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jalo1951 5/19/2023 11:50:18 AM (No. 1473106)
Forgot one: The definition of woman.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TJ54 5/19/2023 11:51:09 AM (No. 1473107)
That a Democratic president ordered the bombing?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Hazymac 5/19/2023 11:52:44 AM (No. 1473111)
Fat Man and Little Boy took some two hundred thousand lives in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945. Days later Japan surrendered, making unnecessary the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands which was to take place in early 1946. MacArthur's planners expected a million American casualties and at least a half million dead in an invasion of Japan. (During the entirety of World War II, American losses were about 407,000. An invasion of Japan would have more than doubled our recent losses.) As horrific as our war losses were--and were expected to be later--the Japanese would have been slaughtered from one end of Japan to the other. Those losses, which never happened thanks to the Bomb, could have totaled between five and ten million Japanese.
The Bomb(s) saved millions of lives. Dropping them was the moral thing to do. Truman knew that. So put that in your bong and smoke it, "Dr." Jill.
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Uhhhh..... is "Dr." Jill an elected official, an official representative of the people of the United States? Have I missed something? Who is she to tell us anything?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 5/19/2023 11:58:47 AM (No. 1473119)
A good friend of our family served in Guam during WWII. He said the Japanese committed atrocities there.
And that’s Dr. Biden to you.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chillijilli 5/19/2023 12:00:13 PM (No. 1473120)
She doesn't know what she's talking about. I lived and worked in Tokyo for 6 years. I understand the culture. I speak the language fluently. I have many Japanese friends, mostly academic,
Elderly Japanese people would frequently stop me on the street and THANK me for STOPPING the war by dropping the bombs! It was their opinion that the Japanese would've suffered far more casualties and damage had we not intervened in the way we did. WE are the ones who are handwringing, not them.
And yes, every year the Chinese government files an official protest against the Japanese Ministry of Education because the textbooks gloss over the Nankin massacre by calling it an "incident."
Too bad the FLOTUS staff didn't bother to do cursory research for her before she opened her mouth, but it's hardly a surprise.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
broken01 5/19/2023 12:15:30 PM (No. 1473134)
I'll never forget my first trip to the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor Naval Station. As a young sailor (just turned 21) I knew the history of the Japanese attack and what they did during WWII. While there I had the honor of talking to a WWII veteran. He told me while it upset him that while the Japanese tourists were laughing and taking pictures of everything that they seemed oblivious to their country's part in what happened on December 7, 1941. It turned out that he was a sailor onboard the USS Pennsylvania which was in drydock during the attack. What our dimwitted FLOTUS should've said is that we must continue to teach this history. Not just why we twice bombed the Japanese but what they also did during the war.
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Here’s some history. The Japanese were savages during World War II and needed to be put in their place. The atomic bomb saved thousands of lives
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
downnout 5/19/2023 12:22:13 PM (No. 1473145)
People who are late to events don’t plan well…and being late shows a lack of respect to your hosts. She’s trash.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
pearlyjo 5/19/2023 12:51:20 PM (No. 1473167)
I had the wonderful opportunity to visit the Arizona Memorial when I was 19 (1984) and we were accompanied by several older Japanese tourists. Two things I experienced: they became very quiet and subdued as they read the names on the walls and several of them had tears running down their faces. They weren't sobbing, they were just quiet and thoughtful.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 5/19/2023 12:59:02 PM (No. 1473178)
Yep, good history lesson there.
Don't start a war with the USA, we might just pound you totally flat.
No sympathy for the Japanese. The people were literally blindly committed all the way to suicide missions to their "emperor". And they were some of the most vicious war criminals on the planet. If you think that is hyperbole - read up on "The Rape of Nanking" and about the Japanese island outpost in the Pacific which was captured late in the war - and the walk in freezer for the top Japanese officers was found to be full of American prisoner's body parts, cut up and ready for eating. Literal cannibalism, and not because of food shortages - because they chose to be barbarians.
I drive some Japanese cars and motorcycles, but I don't forget how hideous they were. And apparently they are still an extremely racist culture.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/19/2023 2:15:58 PM (No. 1473232)
It’s pretty hard to wander around Japan these days and find very many educated Japanese people who don’t recognize that it was the cause of a national catastrophe when the Emperor and the War Lords who ran Japan at the time decided to, and then carried out a major military attack against the US Military bases and ships at and near Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, that killed thousands of Americans and caused massive damage to US Military assets there. So the educated Japanese know that if Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor, that there never would have been US attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki using nuclear weapons.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
snakeoil 5/19/2023 2:50:20 PM (No. 1473252)
I don't need lectures on anything from a woman wearing a shower curtain married to a cadaver who is destroying my country. However, I do believe that schools could do a better job of teaching history. The most common answer among American youths as to whom bombed Pearl Harbor is Vietnam.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Rather Read 5/19/2023 4:08:49 PM (No. 1473290)
I did learn about Hiroshima. I learned a lot about history, but that was before the DIE took over everything.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
dbdiva 5/19/2023 5:45:53 PM (No. 1473368)
Ms. Jill is full of herself. Our F(aux)LOTUS apparently feels that her time is more valuable than anyone else's because of who she is. She is NOT entitled to be rude. It's her staff's job to ensure she's on time for scheduled activities but it would come as no surprise to me if her staff felt just as entitled as she does.I look forward to seeing the day when this sloppy mess of a woman exits the WH.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/19/2023 5:56:28 PM (No. 1473371)
check your history books, comrade Doctor, the Japanese were seeking Pacific Rim domination and moreso but they just happened to drop bombs on the wrong "enemy", just like Admiral Yamamoto said and they paid the price. if you have problems with that just remember the statistics:
Total U.S. combat casualties in the war against Japan were thus 111,606 dead or missing and another 253,142 wounded.
I have no pity but I do feel that the Japanese government did resolute harm to its people by venturing into and propagating a world domination mind set, which led to utter defeat at the hands of people who were isolationist minded politically and societally and just wanted to be left alone.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
wangbuster 5/19/2023 6:05:58 PM (No. 1473374)
Dr. Joke strikes again.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/19/2023 7:08:25 PM (No. 1473409)
Someone should inform the “doctor” that the Japanese have not taught anything about Pearl Harbor in their schools for decades.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 5/19/2023 7:23:23 PM (No. 1473414)
We have been teaching all about the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for about seventy-three years. I suppose it is possible that "Dr." Jill might have missed a few history classes along the way to obtaining her "Doctorate."
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
coldoc 5/19/2023 7:36:41 PM (No. 1473421)
#1 is right, We used to, though I understand pearl harbor events are not taught to Japanese children.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
rochow 5/19/2023 8:47:23 PM (No. 1473451)
That's easy, you dumb @itch: Japan attacked the US. The US hit back. End of story. Moral story of it you uneducated POT is that you don't poke a sleeping bear, you don't know what you are going to get when he wakes up.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 5/19/2023 9:12:55 PM (No. 1473462)
My dad’s unit was being staged for the invasion of Japan when the bombs dropped. It was estimated that we would suffer near 100,000 dead invading the island and the Japanese would end up with some two million dead. They were training housewives to repel the invaders with sharpened bamboo stakes. HST saved millions of lives by using the nukes. RIP Harry.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
mifla 5/20/2023 4:49:10 AM (No. 1473551)
Japan's military leaders refused to surrender, even though the handwriting was on the wall.
They overruled the emperor and kept the war going even after Hiroshima, thinking that we only had one bomb. The second bomb got their attention, and even then, they sent the emperor to surrender to the Allies.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Ozwestie 5/20/2023 6:56:17 AM (No. 1473588)
Many older Australians still hate the Japanese because of the atrocities they committed in this part of the world, my friends elderly mother still won’t buy anything made in Japan as her brother was killed by them during the war.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
David Key 5/20/2023 9:55:38 AM (No. 1473705)
Idiot. What American History that is taught in today's woke school system, you can bet that the Nuclear bombs on Japan are at the top of the list. I wonder if they're teaching how the Japanese treated prisoners, civilians in China, Korea, Mongolia etc.... The horrors they inflicted upon innocents and prisoners rank right up there with the NAZI's in Germany. In fact the Germans treated western prisoners relatively well. Russians not so much. The Japanese were responsible for approximately 10 million deaths over and above the military deaths prior to and during WWII.
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