....not to vote for this clown, what a spineless coward. Off course bombing Japan was the right decision.

His handlers and speechwriters HAD to know he was going to be asked this question above all others - he couldn't have had a proper response prepared that wouldn't embarrass us yet again?

CIC my ass. 

My respect for this moron as a person has found a new low. This was an absolutely pathetic, cowardly and unacceptable response.

And immediately after that huge display of lack of spine, the leadership of Iran, nKorea, Russia, China, AQ, and the Taliban looked at each other - grinned and ordered their followers to "ruck up."

No wonder he is viewed as weaker than Carter.

BHO's response is shameful. Since all history started in January, 2009, he has no knowledge of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. He is a complete amateur and our country is paying a terrible price.

He should've dismissed the reporter's question as "old history, like the Rape of Nanjing, the Bataan Death March, and Unit 731." 

The real problem with Obama's stumbling over an answer is that it raises real doubts about his ability to order the use of US nukes.  Can Obama order a nuclear counterattack in the minutes before the first Russian or Chinese nuclear warheads strike the United States?  Could he even issue the order after the first strike? 

Moscow and Beijing are watching his behavior very closely.  

JAPANESE REPORTER: Do you think it was the right decision? (to drop the atomic bomb) 

Obama: Present.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson

We've all had bosses or colleagues who we've learned to distrust because we know they're entirely into spin. They can't be honest. You know, when you're speaking to them, that they're telling you whatever's to their advantage. 

Obama says only what he thinks will benefit him, and avoids anything else. This is a leader?  

I told my wife the other day that I really wanted to meet a reporter, ask them what they do, and then laugh at them when they told me they were a reporter. Maybe questions like this one will start rubbing off on our media. Wishful thinking, I guess.

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Keep a glass of water handy.  He talks a LOT!

I haven't heard anything new from him in 9 months.  Of course the more stupid decisions made by his administration are announced by other people.

Bringing the Gitmo folks here with full protection of the US Constitution for their trials must be his idea of upholding and defending...

Right.

 The rape of Nanking (original spelling) was so atrocious that it actually denuded the population curve.  The Japanese slaughter of POW (American, British and Australian) was of such a magnitude that nearly the entire legion of the New Mexico National Guard was wiped out.

And the alternative was to actually invade Japan with about 1 million men who would have taken insane casualities.

Or...

We could drop the bomb(s).

Truman was right and he was a real Democrat when the Party was sane.

ACA 

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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)

I lived for years in the Hiroshima area and have studied our rationale for dropping the bomb on that city.  It was a tough call back then, but certainly made easier by the way we demonized their entire race. Yes, we shortened the war, but way too many innocents died. I wonder sometimes if the same bombs could have been dropped on much less populated areas and still impressed the Japanese war mongers that it was time to call it quits.   

 Notice how puffy eyed obozo looks these days?

He looks like he been crying.

 Boo Hoo, this is a real hard job.

 You got to watch what you ask for homey,

you just might get it.

 The Government is the Enemy 

I did not think it was possible for me to distrust this coward with my families safety anymore than I already did. 

Congratulations Coward in chief, you have uh, uh, uh, uh reached a new "milestone" in gutless pandering.

This must have been the Fox news Tokyo affiliate, Axelfraud, Fishboy, Chrissy, bathtub boy and the 13 year old boy will all call them out tonight for their "bias".  

This reporter will beat out Miss Prejean For the "worst person in the world".  

A great man once said, YOU only get out of life what YOU put into it, he obviously wasn't a liberal.

"Defending the decision of the United States to drop nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII is not a comfortable thing to do when you're in Japan.  But if you're President of the United States, you must do it. Diplomatically, yes.  With sympathy for the civilian victims, yes.  But you must do it."

Any other President been asked that question under similar circumstances?

"My white mom was only 2 years old then."

Not relevant. 

It was just more mess left behind by Bush for this fine presidency to clean up.

More proof that our commander in chief is an outright coward.

Hell yes it was the right decision.  The question was like a bully asking a victim that fought back if it was right for him to get a black eye.  NEVER FORGET THE FACT THAT JAPAN STARTED THE WHOLE FIGHT WHEN THE STAGED AN UNPROVOKED ATTACK ON PERL HARBOR.  It's just too bad we didn't have more nukes to drop on them.  They started the fight, we ended it.  It was the right decision then, and it will be the right decision if we are ever put in that position again.  Obama is just too much of a COWARD and too ANTI- U.S. and Anti American Military, to stand up and say it.

I assume if the story does get widely reported, we will see the White House Communications Director explaining that the reporter represents an arm of the Republican Party.

Seriously, the sad thing is, Japan desperately tries to rewrite its WW II history to indicate, among other lies, that the USA had no international legality to use atomic weapons.  They cite Atomic weapons non-use vs. Germany as an example (ignoring the fact that they weren't available prior to V-E Day).  This reporter was bravely trying to allow his countrymen to hear the USA's side of the story directly from the horse's mouth ... only to have our fearless leader refused to provide it to him.

He so laser-focused on getting Univeral Health Care Insurance, he is going to flat-out refuse to address anything else.  God help us if terrorists attacked us on our own soil ... oh wait, we were in TX, weren't we?  I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that - since all the facts haven't come out yet.

I'm not going to try to defend the decision of using the A bombs on Japan.  It's a different world then than it is now and I don't mean with the passage of time, but how we look at things in the world.

It was a dangerous time then  and it's a dangerous time now.

People will make decisions that history will be harsh judges of no matter how you look at it now or then.

In the case of Truman, he made a tactical decision based on his military commanders' advice.  It's a decision that he had to take with him to his grave.  If there were something better to use, I'm sure he would have used it. 

As it is, an atom bomb(nuke, etc) is a horrible weapon.  It's one of many horrible weapons that exist today.  It's something that a madman would have no problem using, especially the Islamic jihadists since they worship death.  And therein lies the rub, we have several countries that want that weapon and would have no problem using.(North Korea and Iran)  India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons but to their leaders, it's just a bomb with a bigger bang.

I do not see Barry ever using a nuke on anyone.  Russia would not use them on the US, no matter how spineless some of its leaders are or have been.  Russia and the US are no threats to each other.

My biggest fear is that the Islamic soldiers are ready and willing to use any kind of nuke weapon on the US and its interests and this could happen at any time.   That's what scares the hell out of me.

 -Jon

The correct answer: "Yes, I believe it was the correct course of action and, given similar circumstances, I would make the same decision to use nuclear weapons."

 LOTUS' answer: "Shout out to homie!".

A pathetic excuse for a man - he has the spine of a jellyfish, the intelligence of a guido, and the morality of a whore.

Some how,some where or self taught the Vain One has decided that America is a bad place. He believes that the only way to fix it is to shape it and our history in his beliefs. Keep on talking! Slowly but surely even the bandwagon hoppers are going to figure out what you are. It ain't good.

and again I'm not let down. Just when I think the POTUS can't get any lower.....shazam. Beck is right, he just hates this country. Yesterday Beck had one of his greatest programs yet, we gotta start calling a spade a spade. WE WON WW2, and for that matter WW1. GOD, I hope EVERYONE starts waking up and sees what's happening.

...Rev Wright.

He could have said something like, "Well, as you all know, I belong to a great church on Chicago's South Side. And every Sunday my pastor would damn America for different reasons. My favotite sermons were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki ones which I spoke about in me best selling Book 'Dreams of my Father'".

Mark. Documentary film maker John Burns, who is way on the left, came to a powerful realization, on the subject of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, during the making of his recent widely acclaimed WWII documentary. I'd like to find the actual transcript here - but it was so important (for a small person like Obama) that it stuck in my head.

In response to a question on how he had come to decide just how he would portray the atomic bombing to end the war of the two Japanese cities, he explained that when he had begun this years long film process, he assumed that he would show it in the more accustomed horrific - how could we have - terms. But, as the years went by he lived the war thru the eyes of the men and women who had lived and died in Pearl Harbor and the war in the Pacific; at Midway and the horrors of the hell which was played out to free the chain of islands being held by the imperialist Japanese Empire. He came to understand that the decisions that were made in that period of time in history were made during that period of time, because they were living the hell then. Winning and ending the war was the only option.

Burns said that there was no way that over 50 years later he could, or should, pass judgement on that which he came to understand almost everyone agreed with, based on what was before them then in that moment.

I commend him for that.

If only Obama had the brilliance which our media is so determined to convince us that he has, perhaps he might use some of it to learn, and to experience, a bit more of history than that taught by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.

(;~/ gary

Way to be, Obama!  nucing two civillian cities is just about the darkest chapter in American history.

Thank the heavenly father for Obama

He was probably thinking the people who made the decision to drop the bombs "acted stupidly", but knew what would be waiting for him at home if he said it.

Looks like he dropped the bomb on that response. Wah wah waaaaaahh...

Re the availability of more bombs after Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 & 9):

"The U.S. expected to have another atomic bomb ready for use in the
third week of August, with three more in September and a further three
in October."

Surce: http://en.wikipedia.org

I do hate to use Wikipedia as a source, but I have seen this information in many other places and it is well-sourced in this case. Japan could have been in for far greater destruction had they held out, and the yields of these bombs could have been increased as we learned more about how to build them.

It's kind of hard to have a grasp of American history when your formative years are spent outside the United States.  LOTUS has no affinity nor does he care about this country and its exceptionalism.

The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER

As a first nuclear response, it probably WAS a huge, criminal mistake.

We should have first nuked a sparsely populated area, demonstrating the awesome power of the A bomb, giving the Japanese the opportunity to save face and surrender. If they didn't, THEN bomb ONE large city, and escalate only if necessary.

Instead we killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese citizens.

This is what OUR president should have said, but at least he didn't blurt out that he thought what we did was right. He was put on the spot and gave an uncomfortable but diplomatic non-response.

 ( I shudder to think what G. W. Bush might have said).