On August 6th, 1945, the first atomic bomb ever used in a war was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The survivors of the Hiroshima bombing, and the Nagasaki bombing committed three days later, are known as hibakusha, and their stories will be told tonight in an HBO documentary called “White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
Today is also the anniversary of another travesty: On August 6th, 2001, Bush decided that spending a month vacationing on his farm in Crawford (it’s not a ranch — to be a ranch it has to have cattle) was more important than heeding that day’s Presidential Daily Brief entitled “Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US.”
What do we have here? We have two atrocious acts committed to end one war, and one atrocious inaction used to justify the start of two other wars.
(Hat-tip to My Left Wing for the head’s up on this blogswarm, and thanks to Blue Gal for initiating it — and providing the image below.
UPDATE: I missed Blue Gal’s hat-tip to Zen Cabin, who actually came up with the idea for this swarm, so consider this a correction and an apology for not giving credit where it was due. And just to clarify, the above image was not created by Blue Gal, just found at her site.
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I’m not entirely sure how i ended up here, and this may just get swallowed up in the tubes, but you can disregard Seahorse.org, director is UK based, only know it as he is a debtor i had to trace from work (small world huh?)
Thanks for the head’s up, Undisclosed (legal reasons)!