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Caribbean-Latin America
Chavez urges US apology to Japan
2009-04-08
[Iran Press TV Latest] Venezuela's President, praising Obama's promise to free the world from nuclear weapons, calls for US apology to Japan over nuking the country.

"It is very encouraging that the president of the United States called for the end of, and the destruction of, nuclear arms in the world," Hugo Chavez told reporters in Tokyo, where he signed an investment deal with Japan.

"Obama launched a missile -- an Obama missile," he added, according to AFP.

Earlier on Sunday at an EU summit in Prague, the US President Barack Obama vowed to lead the quest for a world free from nuclear weapons.

Obama's call to cut stockpiles, restrict testing, cut back on fissile production and to secure loose nuclear material, comes at a time when the US still possesses the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.

The US is "the planet's number one nuclear power. It is also the only country in the world that dropped the atomic bomb," Chavez said. "At any rate, I think America should apologize to Japan."
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#11  Right after Japan openly apologizes for doing this on American Territory.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-04-08 20:09  

#10  What is he supposed to be? A Guardian Angel Cub Scout Pirate? Posted by: tu3031

Whahahaha. I've always thought he looked a bit like Curtis Sliwa with that red beenie.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-04-08 14:23  

#9  Member of the Village People about to sing YMCA?
Posted by: JohnQC   2009-04-08 14:19  

#8  If I was Hugo, I'd apologize for that picture.
What is he supposed to be? A Guardian Angel Cub Scout Pirate?
Posted by: tu3031   2009-04-08 12:51  

#7  While we're on the subject of apologies....

Lt George Bush, then a 20-year-old pilot, was among nine airmen who escaped from their planes after being shot down during bombing raids on Chichi Jima, a tiny island 700 miles south of Tokyo, in September 1944 - and was the only one to evade capture by the Japanese.

The horrific fate of the other eight "flyboys" was established in subsequent war crimes trials on the island of Guam, but details were sealed in top secret files in Washington to spare their families distress.

Mr Bradley has established that they were tortured, beaten and then executed, either by beheading with swords or by multiple stab-wounds from bayonets and sharpened bamboo stakes. Four were then butchered by the island garrison's surgeons and their livers and meat from their thighs eaten by senior Japanese officers.

Linkie
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-04-08 08:03  

#6  AC - If you need a recommendation for a position as a Foreign Service Officer, I'll be happy to write one.
Posted by: GORT   2009-04-08 07:36  

#5  Suggested wording for the apology:

"Yeah, we're sorry you followed a berserk military cult into a war you couldn't win, slaughtered and raped your way across half of Asia, butchered prisoners of war, forced tens of thousands of women into sexual slavery, and dispersed your war industries throughout your fire-trap cities; but, hey, it does seem that you learned your lesson. We sincerely apologize for not being ready to kick you into the Stone Age in 1941, a consequence of listening to peacenik assholes like the ones who fawn over Chavez today and work around the clock to make sure Iran can get its own nuclear weapons."
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2009-04-08 07:09  

#4  It would have been much better if we had bombed the railroads so that the food could not have gotten from the farms to the cities, resulting in mass starvation. Starvation is a slow, painful, horrible way to die. Probably millions of Japanese would have died.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2009-04-08 07:09  

#3  "It is also the only country in the world that dropped the atomic bomb,"

A staple of Kremlin rhetoric during the Cold War(and of lefty academics to this day), as though Stalin would have refrained from nuking Berlin if it had been within his power.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2009-04-08 06:55  

#2  You know Hugolito, the second time is much easier.
Posted by: ed   2009-04-08 01:31  

#1  "Sorry you picked the wrong country to fuck with, guys. Next time, try Venezuela."
Posted by: mojo   2009-04-08 01:19  

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