Thursday November 5, 2009, 4:45 pm
Call on President Obama to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki this month.

To: The President of the United States

Started by: Leonard Eiger

President Barack Obama will visit Japan on November 12 and 13, 2009. As this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and as an advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons, he has an unprecedented opportunity to continue building momentum towards this goal by visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only cities on which nuclear weapons have ever been used. A visit to one, or both, of these cities as well as a speech to the world from Hiroshima would be a bold statement of hope in the months preceeding the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference (May 2010).

Thursday November 5, 2009, 4:45 pm

And, while he's out there, he may want to stop by and take a look at the Iraqi deformed babies his administration is still creating with its use of depleted uranium.

Thursday November 5, 2009, 4:48 pm
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Thursday November 5, 2009, 5:06 pm
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.I get that messege during my sign ... Iraq is not in the list
Wish Obama remember Iraqi children ; the strange desies the straning dituations found in Iraqi because of American weapon DU and all Iraqi that get cancer from DU .. I am one of them

Thursday November 5, 2009, 10:11 pm
I dont know much about USA politics, but it seems that President Obama has a huge task on his hands.

Thursday November 5, 2009, 10:36 pm
The atrocity of Hiroshima can conveniently be blamed on the past! Iraq is a little too closer to the here and now!The Presidents visit is to be welcomed by why do I get the impression someone else is pulling the strings and organising the agenda of public displays. Sadly the Japanese have not altered their cruel disregard of life that they displayed towards the world in WW2 and the public cowtowing to them is offensive to the many lives that were blighted by their past activities. America is perhaps more concerned about dollars than historical reality! Americas more recent activities of course were likely motivated by greed of armament and oil interests! Sadly the suffering of the Iragi people is but one of the many casualties of America's aggressive self obsessed foreign policy which is replicated in the Holy Land by Israel's Nazi style actions against the Palestinians. America should stand back and take a world view of itself an not emulate the colonial mistakes of the UK's past history! The plight of the Iraqi people is never far from my mind especially as my father who spent much of WW2 in Baghdad with UK forces gave me a personal insight into people and places of Iraq and the surrounding countries so I feel a bond of empathy with those who continue to suffer from the legacy of dangerous munitions. It is my earnest wish that thousands of years of conflict visited on the Middle East since the dawn of civilisation should end and outside interests should stop fighting surrogate wars in other's backyards from wherever they come! If Jesus, Mohammad and Abraham were to reappear in the region today they would likely step back in horror at what is done in their Names and seek sanctuary in another place or peaceful religion!

Friday November 6, 2009, 4:41 am
Happily signed.

Nick

Friday November 6, 2009, 6:50 am
Thanks Jelica. This is a very worthwhile issue and I hope it gets a lot of attention. I just wish Change.org would make it easier for Canadians to sign petitions. Maybe they could even add one little discrete item to their pull-down list for 'aliens' like me.

Friday November 6, 2009, 7:22 am
Thanks...Signed #316

Wonder how much he will actually be able to get done, everyone is putting up bricks all over...

To much fighting lately in politics...frankly we need JFK or Ronald Regean those two got a lot done, now before everyone jumps down my backside...I did mention both parties!

Thanks again, signed with pleasure, would like all of mass weapons to be gone and not started by ALL countries period...where would they put the ones they have though...UMMMM another problem.

Friday November 6, 2009, 11:14 am
Signed thanks Jelica

Friday November 6, 2009, 2:43 pm
We in Russia have always condemned America for nuclear bombing Japan and never appologizing for that awful deed. If Obama is the first American president to appologize it would be a really historic event, especially from the point of view of the Russians.

Friday November 6, 2009, 2:47 pm

While we, "historic Americans" apologize, but continue stockpiling the same nuclear weapons we admonish others for, we are nothing more than hypocrites.

Friday November 6, 2009, 5:47 pm
Signed and forwarded.
Tks Jelica

Saturday November 7, 2009, 6:48 am
We know that Obama is on his rounds... and it will be an added bonus if he manages to get through to these places... would be a great contribution to peace and goodwill between these countries