Jeremiah Wright is BAAAACCCCCKKKKKKKK!
Last Sunday, while preaching at Trinity Church, JW shows a elementary lack of knowledge in American History by declaring that on "this day, December 7" the USA dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing 144,000 "innocent" Japanese lives, in spite of the fact that is actually was the anniversary of the unprovoked attack on our Navy at Pearl Harbor which killed over 3,000 of our young servicemen and ushered us into a war that killed millions. He says we bombed them in 1941 when it didn't happen until August of 1945.
And our president-elect sat in these pews for 20 years listening to this stuff and didn't decide to distance himself from him and this church until political expediency demanded it.
Start at :47 and run to 1:14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeNo-5tAkz8
BTW why is it "America dropped the bomb" and "this government dropped the bomb" or "America rounded up Japanese civilians and interred them" when it was Democrat Harry Truman that dropped the bomb and FDR that rounded up the Japanese, but its "Bush's War in Iraq", "Bush's killing of innocent civilians"?
The loss of civilians in any conflict is regrettable, but the atomic bombs dropped on Japan were the result of the estimated 1 million American servicemen that would've died had America been forced to attack the Japanese mainland. In the final months of the war at Iwo Jima, Guam, Okinawa, and Saipan, the Japanese demonstrated a suicidal zeal to fight to the death rather than surrender. It is horrible that the Japanese government attacked us in the first place, but even more so that they, even after the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima allowed days to pass with no hint of surrender, costing another 60,000 plus to die.
The result? We rebuilt Japan at immense cost, Japan became a democracy with freedom they had never known before, and today they are one of the strongest economies in the world.
Imperial Japan was just as wicked and dangerous as Nazi Germany. We were right and they were wrong. We won because our principles were superior and our love of freedom for all people was and still is the only way.
I hope BO has abandoned in his heart and mind such ludicrous views of America's history.
deacon blues 
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