Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) has come under fire for saying Gaza should be handled like “Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” suggesting that he was calling for a nuclear bomb to be dropped on the Strip, which could kill millions of Palestinians.
Walberg made the comments at a town hall last week when asked about the US funding the construction of a port in Gaza, supposedly to bring in more aid. “We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid,” he said. “It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick.”
The genocidal comments became public when they surfaced in a video on social media. In response to the controversy, Walberg claimed he was using a “metaphor” by naming the only two cities in the world that have ever been hit with a nuclear bomb.
“I used a metaphor to convey the need for both Israel and Ukraine to win their wars as swiftly as possible, without putting American troops in harm’s way,” he claimed. “My reasoning was the exact opposite of what is being reported: the quicker these wars end, the fewer innocent lives will be caught in the crossfire.”
Israeli officials have frequently pointed to the US and Allied bombings of Germany and Japan during World War II to justify the mass killing of civilians in Gaza. Military historians say the destruction in Gaza is on par with the destruction of German cities, which are some of the most heavily bombed places in history.
Walberg came under heavy criticism from fellow Michigan politicians for his reference to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including former Rep. Justin Amash, a Palestinian-American who lost family members to Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza.
Amash said Walberg’s comments “evince an utter indifference to human suffering. The people of Gaza are our fellow human beings—many of them children trapped in horrific circumstances beyond their individual control. For him to suggest that hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinians should be obliterated, including my own relatives sheltering at an Orthodox Christian church, is reprehensible and indefensible.”
That jackass should not only be fired, but should face charges for inciting genocide. What a 5otal loser.
Calling for the total extermination by nuclear annihilation of an ethnic group is a crime under international law and persecutable. However, even leaving aside the US’s ability to grant immunity, I think that is not a good idea. Firstly it is probably the most self-damning statement anyone could make, putting the man right in the realm of the insane. Secondly when he tries to bullshit his way out of it, it clearly shows his rethorical skills are at a level that is reassuring that his pathology is not accompanied with the intellectual skills to realize any of his sickness.
He represents the ignorance of the nation’s political establishment, they are the uneducated ruling class, intellectually and morally bankrupt.
Nah, the Kremlin has made way worse statements and it doesn’t even make the news here. When some bring it up, Russian supporters claim that they were taken out of context.
It’s the double standard.
The website is about opposing war in the US. Why would it run an article about Russia? If you want a Russian variant, create one.
Oh what, like “we’ll kill them in the shit house”?… Don’t worry, they weren’t talking about your home.
Russians have manners, Russian politicians are not in the business of name calling. Putin never called Biden a killer or war criminal.
LOL. Yes they are so polite when they kill their opposition. LOL.
Well, who killed the Kennedy brothers? And there is the Lincoln assassination and others. The US has a history of political assassinations at home and abroad, the CIA is skilled in assassinating people, they specialize in helicopter crashes.
That jackass should not only be fired, but fired out of a cannon.
What a piece of excrement. Waste of genetic material.
Evil rules in DC and these soul less creatures are the residents.
“the need for both Israel and Ukraine to win their wars as swiftly as possible” – swiftly they can only lose but they don’t want to lose, so have a patience. Chinese army will finish it’s modernization by 2030. Maybe someone forgot that chairman Xi is Putin’s friend. Friends help each other. China is not quite ready for the war for Taiwan. Of course, Washington strategists may start the third war without finishing the first two, it would be their choice.
China is another paper tiger just like Russia.
Funny that Ukraine cant defeat a paper tiger and Nato is afraid to go all in.
The joke is the A-bombs didn’t end the war. Negotiations did, like the Yanks capitulating on their “unconditional surrender” demand.
THAT’S how you end wars.
There was an agreement between Russia and US that after the defeat of Germany, Russia within 3 months will help US in the war with Japan. Russia did as agreed and exactly 3 months after the capitulation of Germany, 9 August 1945 00:09 (Moscow time) started the invasion in Manchuria. One may think that US dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima to help Russians but in reality the reason of the nuclear bombardment was to scare Stalin and prevent him helping Chinese communists. The war between Chinese communists and Chinese pro-American nationalists lasted other four years. Chinese communist army led by Mao succeeded thanks to a huge support of Russia. One may hate Stalin for many reasons but one thing is clear: he was a great geopolitical player and never gave in both in Asia and in Europe despite the fact that from 1945 until 1949 US was the only nuclear power in the world. So, in a way, it was Stalin who created the current geopolitical situation.
One may hate Stalin for many reasons but one thing is clear: He never did THAT. 💣
“We hereby proclaim the unconditional surrender to the Allied Powers of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters and of all Japanese armed forces and all armed forces under Japanese control wherever situated” September 2, 1945 9:04 am Toyoko time.
A self serving document inconsistant with the facts.. Much like your posts.
China likes Taiwan just the way it is, a source of high quality components and all the military and industrial data they want to buy. Taiwan like China just the way it is, they buy over 28 percent of all Taiwan’s exports and Hong Kong another 14 percent (the US buys under 14 percent and the EU even less). All the noise is just political posturing to extract more money out of DC.
Another applicant for an increase in Lobby funds. I will say no more. Being inflicted with a diseased brain like that is punishment enough.
It’s
a country of sick pups. Has he seen Flint or Detroit lately? We did
a pretty good job of Nagasaki-ing the $#!+ outta them. He
should visit his own state.
The Republicans are Zionist, the Democrats are Zionist, they all need to be Voted OUT. Amash needs to leave the Republican Party, go Libertarian, Independent, etc. The same is true for Rashid, Paul, Massie and others. Anyone against the Genocide of the Palestinians, against useless wars, can NOT be associated with the Reps or Dems, who have become one Anti-American Lobby. Where in the Constitution, does it give anyone the right, to just drop bombs on defenseless people?
Amash already left the Republican party and became officially Libertarian in 2019
He’s running for US Senate as a Republican this year.
You know who aren’t Zionists?.. The youth. And I’m talking the children of both the Zionists and their Evangelical enablers. They were already trickling out of their black mass, now they’re fleeing like it’s a houseafire.
Gaza dies but not in vain. 🇵🇸
One more addition to my shitlist.
Bravit!
My shitlist has standards. He doesn’t even qualify as shit.
BURN! https://media0.giphy.com/media/tRIrEPn9FIsSI/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
Enjoy the rain Walberg, before the fire, cause that is where hell is and I just gave your friend, the devil, directions to you. Hasta La. Vista, baby!
Supposedly this guy is a Baptist minister… A Man of the Cloth.
Guess he needs one to soak up the blood on his hands.
He’s about as Christian as the Reverend Al Sharpton.
“I used a metaphor to convey the need for both Israel and Ukraine to win their wars as swiftly as possible, without putting American troops in harm’s way,” he claimed. “My reasoning was the exact opposite of what is being reported: the quicker these wars end, the fewer innocent lives will be caught in the crossfire.”
There’s a killer on the road. His brain is squirming like a toad. -Jim Morrison
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What a Brilliant Ides…?! He should be decorated with the Congressional Medal of Honor…!
Medal of Honor
You spelled Horror wrong.
Let’s see just how committed this lout is to his convictions: Fly him to Gaza and let him explain to a town hall full of children why they have to die and why he is giving the Israelis the weapons to kill them. I want to him to look into each and every child’s face and tell them why he wants them dead.
And they did. Look at the Aljazeera video if you can find it, I watched three minutes and I am speechless, I never saw photos and videos of any such destruction. Hundreds of bodies, buried with bulldozers, and hands bound, endless stories of war crimes. I never thought so-called humans could be so vile and sadistic as the Israelis are and our deranged killer Joe supports it and is asking for more. What despicable demons Biden and Netanyahu and the whole neocon Zionist cabals are. This must be the promised ugly Nuland beast’s surprise, only satanic people like her can massacre people like that.
The USA are THE ONLY NATION TO HAVE USED NUCLEAR BOMBS ON ANOTHER NATION. And they are proud of it.
The USA have never been bombed not even with conventional bombs by another nation. That could change, N. KOREA received modern, top of the art missiles from Russia able to reach the continental USA with nuclear war heads as I understand it.
“The USA have never been bombed not even with conventional bombs by another nation” US territories including Alaska, Hawaii, Wake and Guam were bombed in WW2. And Jap subs twice shelled the West Coast in that war. And than there is the war of 1812.
a warmonger and deifier of the Military….jesting? or the canard “I was taken out of context? Foul and Repugnant.
The Marxist Dems and Senile Joe….vs….Hegelian “Opposite” GOP and Economic Fascist amoral criminal Trumpolini and warmonger Military Deifyer Congressman like this “winner’
a Patriotic Partisan Hobson’s Choice….smh
“Congressman Lowlife Bloodthirsty Slimeball, R-Tel Aviv”. Fixed.
Well, the electorate elected this asshole. What does that say about the electorate?
99% of the rest of Congress is happy to let the genocide occur so they don’t have to worry about the Israeli Lobby coming after them. What does that say about 99% of Congress – and therefore what does that say about 99% of the US electorate?
It says all these people are morons who have zero clue who they are putting in office, that’s what is says.
And what does that say about “American democracy”? It says it doesn’t work, that’s what it says. And was never intended to work, just like every other state in human history.
Is the implication that you do vote?
And no, I’m not a fan of “democracy“ either.