Welcome to the Brad Essex Report. Here what I'm looking at this week. president Obama is set to go to Japan this week and he isn't expected to apologize for America bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Why should we? First thing first on December 7 1941 a day that would live in infamy Japanese forces attacked pearl harbor on a quiet Sunday morning. Many of our troops there were asleep or at church for Easter mass. Meanwhile Japan so sure of the attack that the attack took place before any formal declaration of war was made by Japan, but this was not Admiral Yamamoto's intention. He originally stipulated that the attack should not commence until thirty minutes after Japan had informed the United States that peace negotiations were at an end. However, the attack began before the notice could be delivered. Tokyo transmitted the 5000-word notification (commonly called the "14-Part Message") in two blocks to the Japanese Embassy in Washington, but transcribing the message took too long for the Japanese ambassador to deliver it in time. (In fact, U.S. code breakers had already deciphered and translated most of the message hours before he was scheduled to deliver it.) The final part of the "14 Part Message" is sometimes described as a declaration of war. While it was viewed by a number of senior U.S government and military officials as a very strong indicator that negotiations were likely to be terminated and that war might break out at any moment, it neither declared war nor severed diplomatic relations. A declaration of war was printed on the front page of Japan's newspapers in the evening edition of December 8, but not delivered to the U.S. government until the day after the attack.
For four years we've fought them tooth and nail throughout the Pacific. From the horrors of the Bataan death march to the raping of Korean women by Japanese soldiers their brutality were equal to the horrors suffered by the hands of the Germans. The end of the war was near. Japan were being driven out by our island hopping attacks. Yet the Japanese wouldn't quit. Not after the Tokyo firebombings and other attacks of their homeland. Soon we develops the most powerful weapon on earth a nuclear bomb and we used two to finished off the Japanese.
Yet what if they didn't surrender. We would of gone with Operation Downfall. Simply put it would of been the largest amphibious landing ever. Thou the other part of the plan was the use of more nuclear weapons. So if you combined a land invasion with the use of nuclear weapons the chance for death of both side would be in the nearly a 100,000 or more. Plus the radiation sickness would of killed 100's of thousands more people after the fact.
Also we had a enemy that was so loyal to the emperor they would rather of died then let Americans take over their homeland. The U.S. military knew that if we were going into Tokyo not many soldiers were coming out alive or in critical condition. We would of only have 6 millions troops combined with England and other countries. Japan had over 35 million people. That military and civilians combined. So we made a lot of purple heart medals for a attack that didn't happen that why we have so many made in the 40's at hands still in 2016.
Thou thank to some smart folks in Japanese leadership that followed the order of Emperor Shōwa was able to stop the war from going further. We not only saved the lives of many Americans We may have saved the country of Japan from being wiped out. In fact the people Japan are slowly dying out right now. imagine if they didn't stop fighting. Japan would of been relegated to the dustpan of history.
So for Obama to even think about apologizing for our dropping two bombs on Japan is dumb. Japan should be graceful that we didn't wipe them off the face of the earth. They should apologize for Pearl Harbor,Bataan,The raping of Korea women and many other crimes that they did. So Japan sorry about your damn luck but you put this on yourself.
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