Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] US to Attend Hiroshima Memorial for First Time

2010-08-07 Thread CeJ
Also, I should have said: it has been the official policy of the US government and military neither to confirm nor deny the presence of nukes (tactital nukes usually) on US ships or planes or overseas bases. When New Zealand tried to get them to stop taking nukes into NZ ports, the US actually set

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] US to Attend Hiroshima Memorial for First Time

2010-08-06 Thread c b
CeJ wrote: > >>CB: What would the US have done if Japan had not allowed same ?<< > > Most likely the US would have said it valued the US-Japan alliance more than > an issue like that, and then lie and say it didn't have any nukes in Japan > while bringing them here anyway. CB: Ok. I thought they

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] US to Attend Hiroshima Memorial for First Time

2010-08-05 Thread CeJ
>>CB: What would the US have done if Japan had not allowed same ?<< Most likely the US would have said it valued the US-Japan alliance more than an issue like that, and then lie and say it didn't have any nukes in Japan while bringing them here anyway. At least more Japanese would be aware that

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] US to Attend Hiroshima Memorial for First Time

2010-08-05 Thread c b
On 8/4/10, CeJ wrote: > > > > Japan, the only country that has ever been attacked with > > atomic bombs -- first on August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima, and > > three days later in Nagasaki -- has pushed for the abolition > > of the weapons of mass destruction ever since. > > > > > Which is why the govern

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] US to Attend Hiroshima Memorial for First Time

2010-08-04 Thread CeJ
> > Japan, the only country that has ever been attacked with > atomic bombs -- first on August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima, and > three days later in Nagasaki -- has pushed for the abolition > of the weapons of mass destruction ever since. > Which is why the governments of Japan have knowingly allowed/a

[Marxism-Thaxis] US to Attend Hiroshima Memorial for First Time

2010-08-04 Thread c b
US to Attend Hiroshima Memorial for First Time By Shingo Ito August 3, 2010, Agence France-Presse via common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/03 HIROSHIMA, Japan - Sixty-five years after a mushroom cloud rose over Hiroshima, the United States will for the first time send an e