Pope Francis Again Recalls U.S. Bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Breitbart,
by
Thomas D. Williams
Original Article
Posted By: Beardo,
8/11/2024 5:15:11 PM
Pope Francis prayed Sunday for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a topic he has returned to on numerous occasions. (snip) The pontiff has repeatedly condemned the U.S. bombing of Japan that brought an end to the Second World War.
Prior to his 2019 trip to Japan, Francis denounced the “evil” bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, calling the attacks a “tragic episode in human history.”
“I will soon visit Nagasaki and Hiroshima, where I will offer prayers for the victims of the catastrophic bombing of these two cities, and echo your own prophetic calls for nuclear disarmament,” the pope told Japanese bishops.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/11/2024 5:20:42 PM (No. 1776461)
Millions of Americans and Japanese are alive today because we did, descendants of the lives that were spared.
If it's blasphemous to refer to the Pope as a clueless POS, guilty.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 8/11/2024 5:23:34 PM (No. 1776467)
Shut up you pretender.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 8/11/2024 5:27:20 PM (No. 1776471)
The Socialist Pope can barely walk.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
helibobber 8/11/2024 5:32:51 PM (No. 1776476)
Will he also stop at Pearl Harbor?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 8/11/2024 5:38:35 PM (No. 1776479)
Shame he wasn’t there.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/11/2024 5:39:56 PM (No. 1776481)
Having this kind of ‘blinders on’ view of Hiroshima & Nagasaki is a dead giveaway for how faulty and even dangerous your views regarding humanity’s other problems are.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
navybrat 8/11/2024 5:41:32 PM (No. 1776483)
Did the pope denounce the evil bombing of the USS Arizona, and the American lives lost?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 8/11/2024 5:49:31 PM (No. 1776485)
Let's talk about the Bataan Death March. Does Frankie have any words of wisdom?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Tennman 8/11/2024 5:50:55 PM (No. 1776486)
Pope Francis was unavailable for comments on Nanking, Unit 731, prison hell ships, etc.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 8/11/2024 6:02:45 PM (No. 1776491)
Gosh Mr. Francis...O.K. we take the credit for bombing Hiroshima, but the bombing of Nagasaki is on the hands of the Emperor's Admirals and Generals. They advised him to not surrender, we gave them 3 days to do so but they didn't. So the blood of those 'victims' are on their hands. So...maybe make a new 'postcard' showing the body of a little Japanese child being stomped on by Japanese men in uniform.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 8/11/2024 6:02:55 PM (No. 1776492)
He is unhappy that the war was brought to an end?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 8/11/2024 6:11:23 PM (No. 1776499)
Here's a fun little fact...500,000 Purple Hearts were manufactured for the invasion of Japan. 370,000 Purple Hearts have been awarded for Korea, Vietnam, the GulfWar, the War on Terror. There are 120,000 Purple Hearts remaining.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Turninggrey 8/11/2024 6:23:46 PM (No. 1776504)
F the Pope. I'm supposedly Catholic.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
volksford 8/11/2024 6:28:49 PM (No. 1776506)
Vicar my ass...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
TarAndFeathers 8/11/2024 6:40:18 PM (No. 1776512)
By deploying two A-bombs, President Truman (way back when Democrats used to be Americans) ended the invasion of Japan (Operation Downfall), thereby preventing the deaths of a million Americans and several million Japanese.
The Pope person shamelessly reveals his utter ignorance of historical reality.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
stevendm 8/11/2024 6:56:30 PM (No. 1776523)
I'm here because of those bombs. My dad was on a troop transport slated to participate in the invasion of Japan.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MissMann 8/11/2024 7:00:40 PM (No. 1776525)
He needs to read "Unbroken" and reconsider his asinine position.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/11/2024 7:07:11 PM (No. 1776528)
Frank, you still don't get it, do you.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 8/11/2024 7:09:05 PM (No. 1776529)
I think the Pope is a "lying dog-faced phony soldier" and he needs to do pushups with Joe Biden
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 8/11/2024 7:20:05 PM (No. 1776532)
They started it.
We ended it.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mythman 8/11/2024 7:30:20 PM (No. 1776534)
The great Japanese fighter ace and Zero pilot Saburo Sakai survived the war because when the Kamakazies ramped up, he was injured and couldn't fly. He much later met Col Tibbets, the captain of the Enola Gay, and
said Tibbets had done the right thing - millions of Japanese and American casualties were spared and otherwise the war would have gone on. Civilians would have especially suffered.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
FormerDem 8/11/2024 7:39:56 PM (No. 1776539)
The deliberate destruction of innocent humna life is always gravely immoral.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
downnout 8/11/2024 8:10:44 PM (No. 1776546)
Perhaps he’ll mention the horror of the Bataan death march and the forced “comfort women”, all courtesy of the Japanese.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Kate318 8/11/2024 8:18:33 PM (No. 1776549)
An atrocity happens around the word with Christian/Catholic victims and it takes this clown weeks to say anything, if he ever does at all. But boy, he sure never lets a good guilt trip for the US go by without immediately jumping on it.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
coyote 8/11/2024 8:19:56 PM (No. 1776551)
I don't think he mentioned the 19 million killed in the Japanese invasions of China, Indo China, the Philippines, Manchuria, and a few other countries.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/11/2024 8:22:16 PM (No. 1776552)
Re #16. My dad's infantry unit was being staged for the invasion. I would have been OK (born in '42) but my three younger brothers might not be here. Rest in peace, Harry. You did the right thing.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
red1066 8/11/2024 8:25:29 PM (No. 1776554)
I guess intelligence isn't a requirement to become pope.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
ProudEagle 8/11/2024 8:27:35 PM (No. 1776556)
Frannie-the-Red strikes again! I am a Roman Catholic. I am a Papist. But THIS pa-pist me off way too many times. Retire. Jerk.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 8/11/2024 8:34:11 PM (No. 1776562)
27,000 people died every DAY of that war, overwhelmingly civilians, about 1/2 in each theater. That means about 13,000 Chinese, Indonesian, Malaysian, etc were dying every DAY that the war continued. I find their lives to be far more important than the lives of the aggressors killing and maiming them. The pope - lower case on purpose, I have no respect for his title right now - would rather the innocent be starved and butchered than the guilty be nuked. That's all you have to know about his character, or lack thereof.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Hazymac 8/11/2024 8:45:29 PM (No. 1776568)
Those nukes saved approximately a million American soldiers who would have been killed in a frontal assault on Japan. How many Japanese citizens were saved by the Bomb? Maybe ten million. Fat Man and Little Boy saved multitudes of us. My 17-year-old father had been drafted, and was going to go to Japan. If he had gone, his family wouldn't have been born. That's me and my siblings.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/11/2024 8:45:46 PM (No. 1776569)
War is hell, Francis. You should remember that each time you open your lips. War is coming Francis. THAT War. Which side will you be counted on? What will Jesus say, when you call out, "Lord, Lord!"?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 8/11/2024 9:28:08 PM (No. 1776579)
From a practicing Catholic: Holy Father, will you also
pray for all the people who were slaughtered by the Japanese in their brutal war of aggression — a war that they started, in China and Southeast Asia, and then to the U.S., without provocation? A brutal war of total conquest, only halted by the sacrifice of U.S. sailors, soldiers, and Marines???
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
billsv 8/11/2024 9:39:35 PM (No. 1776592)
What was the alternative? A full blown invasion would have killed more. Japan homes were a tinder box burning millions.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/11/2024 10:33:52 PM (No. 1776606)
Somebody with some go-power should inform Pope Francis that if there had not been a Pearl Harbor attack that there never would have been any Hiroshima or Nagasaki attacks!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/11/2024 10:55:23 PM (No. 1776616)
Pray tell. What would you have done Mr. Pope? Surrender? Does the Pope realize The Vatican would have ceased to exist if Nazi Germany had survived.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
chance_232 8/11/2024 10:56:03 PM (No. 1776617)
Say what you will, but I would be terrified to stand before our creator having authorized or having dropped the bombs. I'm glad that I didn't have to make the decision. I'm afraid that your dawned if you do, dawned if you don't.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/12/2024 3:29:17 AM (No. 1776650)
Visit Pearl Harbor while you are out and about, you Argentinian fraud.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
konocti95 8/12/2024 4:13:24 AM (No. 1776656)
#25 - You are correct to point out the horrible toll the Japanese inflicted on the neighboring populations beginning in 1931 and lasting for 14 years. Today's Americans usually overlook the carnage on the Asian mainland because our grandfathers and great grandfathers were hopping from island to island fighting ferocious but relatively small battles. However, the American of the 1930s and 40s were well aware of the Japanese aggression and brutality from the movie newsreels they watched each week at the theater.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Trigger2 8/12/2024 4:30:15 AM (No. 1776667)
Worst. Pope. Ever. And a commie one at that.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
mifla 8/12/2024 4:31:25 AM (No. 1776669)
If this pope was an American, he would be a Democrat. Cherry pick the facts to support your agenda, while ignoring the mountain of facts that conflict with your agenda.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Sully 8/12/2024 5:46:55 AM (No. 1776695)
Yes because as we all know Argentina was doing all the heavy lifting to defeat 2 fascist death cult regimes bent on, and successfully implementing, their plans to dominate and subdue the entire world order.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
NamVet70 8/12/2024 7:46:28 AM (No. 1776730)
The Pope is condemning an act of war that ultimately ended the war. If the bombs had not been used, millions more people, both American and Japanese, would have died in the conflict. The planned invasion of Japan would have been the bloodiest battle ever seen.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Venturer 8/12/2024 8:36:51 AM (No. 1776764)
This Pope seems to find pleasure in attacking the United States.
He needs to do something to save his dying Church.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Right Time 8/12/2024 9:05:58 AM (No. 1776782)
At the time the atomic bombs were deployed, the war in Germany was over.
Fascist communists in Argentina (like Fake Pope Frankie) opened their borders to admit any/all fleeing Nazis to re-establish a Fourth Reich in Argentina.
I say, F*** You, Frankie, with all the hate I can muster
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
southerngal 8/12/2024 10:03:06 AM (No. 1776816)
Who does the Pope pray to? He does not seem to follow Jesus's teachings.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/12/2024 10:06:09 AM (No. 1776819)
Ask me again why I left the Catholic Church. For the second time.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
Mad Dog 8/12/2024 10:25:26 AM (No. 1776826)
Oh Heavenly Father, how much more damage to Your Church will you allow before You call this fool home?
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
David Key 8/12/2024 11:45:10 AM (No. 1776871)
WILL HE PRAY FOR THE SLAUGHTERED DURING THE Bataan death march? Will he pray for the Chinese killed by Japanese chemical and biological weapons? Will he pray for the young Korean girls forced into slavery in brothels for the Japanese soldiers? If not than his sense of righteous indignation is a lie.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/12/2024 11:59:51 AM (No. 1776888)
Hey Popey, you need to worry about your friends, you know, the Pedo Priests...Nuff Said!
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
FJB 8/12/2024 12:03:21 PM (No. 1776891)
What's your point, dip-squat?
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