MB DRO ROSHI

[Doug Millison]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/DH15Dh01.html

"[...] On August 6, at a ceremony marking the
anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Mayor Akiba
stated that the world's tendency to forget that
hellish day 57 years ago increased the potential for
the renewed use of nuclear weapons. He deplored the
cycle of retaliation and hatred, noting that those who
suffered the consequences of September 11 were
overwhelmingly disadvantaged people, women, children
and the elderly, at the sites of conflict in
Afghanistan, the Middle East, India and Pakistan. 
Akiba strongly urged that Bush visit Hiroshima and
Nagasaki to witness what nuclear weapons do to human
beings. Many fear that after its unilateral withdrawal
from the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, and after
increasing its military budget to a higher rate than
the US average during the Cold War, the Bush
administration is poised to lead the world into a new
arms race, including deployment of nuclear weapons. 
Those who grieved last September at the tragedy that
hit innocent people in New York's World Trade Center
must not stand by as the same thing happens to
innocent people in Afghanistan and elsewhere in Asia.
As Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said: "Forgotten
history will repeat itself." [...] 


MB DRO
ROSHI

(GR 693)



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