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Other Title: Was Obamas Pastor Right About Pearl Harbor? From Worldnetdaily http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59044 Newly released video of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Democrat presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama's controversial pastor, shows the preacher telling his congregation the United States knew of the attack on Pearl Harbor before the Japanese struck, the U.S. would plant weapons of mass destruction in Iraq "just like the LAPD," and those committing black-on-black crime are "fighting the wrong enemy." The series of clips, taken from hours of sermons, was broadcast on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes program last night. At times Wright, who moves his congregation to shouts of agreement, is shown wearing an African dashiki while in the pulpit and, at others, he wears a clerical collar. Wright, again, called on God to damn America – or "white America, U.S. of KKKA," as he refers to the nation in another sermon – "for killing innocent people ... for treating us citizens as less than human." As WND reported, in a 2003 sermon Wright encouraged blacks to damn America in God's name and blamed the U.S. for provoking the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by dropping nuclear weapons on Japan in World War II and supporting Israel since 1947. Yesterday, in response to mounting criticism over Wright's anti-American and racist comments, Obama issued a statement saying he strongly condemns and denounces "some inflammatory and appalling remarks [Wright] made about our country, our politics, and my political opponents." Despite having been at the church for two decades, Obama said he was not in attendance when Wright made any of the statements and never heard such talk in private conversations. "Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy," Obama said. "I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it's on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue." Late yesterday, Wright stepped down from his formal role in Obama's campaign, as a member of his African American Religious Leadership Committee. Statements in the newly released video segments suggest earlier samples of Wright's sermons were not isolated instances and add to questions of how Obama and his family could have been unaware of such provocative messages coming from the pulpit of their home church. Here are excerpts from Wright's sermons revealed by Fox News: "The government lied about Pearl Harbor. They knew the Japanese were going to attack. Government's lied." "We've got a paranoid group of patriots in power that now, in the interest of homeland stupidity – I mean homeland security ..." "The government lied about the Tuskegee experiment. They purposely infected African-American men with syphilis ..." "Fighting for peace is like raping for virginity." "... what's going on in white America, U.S. of KKKA ..." "Black men turning on black men – that is fighting the wrong enemy. You both are the primary targets in an oppressive society that sees both of you as a dangerous threat." "We cannot see how what we are doing is the same thing al-Qaida is doing under a different color flag ... And guess what else. If they don't find them some weapons of mass destruction, they going to do just like the LAPD and plant them some weapons of mass destruction." "God damn America – that's in the Bible – for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating us citizens as less than human. God damn America ..." These controversial statements join others Wright has made from the pulpit. WND reported yesterday Wright preached a sermon at his alma mater, Howard University, in 2006 that "America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. ... We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional killers." Speaking at the Washington, D.C., school's Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, Wright said, "We started the AIDS virus. … We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty." The pastor reportedly said in a sermon just after 9/11, "The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied." THEN THERE IS THIS FROM http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Aug/29/ln/ln03a.html By Curtis Lum Advertiser Staff Writer On an ocean bottom littered with military debris, researchers from the University of Hawai'i yesterday discovered what is believed to be the first casualty of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. The finding of the Japanese two-man submarine is significant because it confirms accounts by the crew on the destroyer USS Ward that the first shots fired on that day of infamy were from American guns, not the Japanese. A little more than an hour before Japanese bombers attacked Pearl Harbor, the Ward fired on a submarine while patrolling just outside the harbor. Crewmembers believed they had sunk a Japanese "midget" submarine, but until yesterday, their story had gone unconfirmed. After years of searching the murky waters of Pearl Harbor — including a two-week search by Titanic discoverer Robert Ballard — researchers from the university's Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) aboard the research vessel Ka'imikai-o-Kanaloa said they found the 78-foot, two-man submarine three to four miles off Pearl Harbor in about 1,200 feet of water. An hour before the air attack on Pearl Harbor, the destroyer USS Ward said it fired a shot into the base of the conning tower of an unknown submarine. Photo courtesy of Hawai'i Undersea Laboratory The two teams were doing test dives in the submersibles Pisces IV and V when they came across the vessel. Daniel Martinez, historian for the National Park Service's USS Arizona Memorial, called the discovery one of the most significant finds since the war. "This confirms the events of the eyewitnesses who were out there that morning, that said they fired and sunk a submarine," Martinez said. "More importantly, this is a significant part of history. This is the first opening sequence of World War II for the United States and Japan." Terry Kerby led the research team yesterday and said the submarine — complete with two torpedoes — is sitting on the ocean floor intact and in good condition. Kerby said HURL has been doing dives in the area for years to test the submersibles and to train the pilots. On each trip, he said, the missing World War II relic was always in the back of their minds. "A lot of people have been looking for this sub for a long time, and it was a pretty exciting moment to actually come across and realize it was the one that the Ward sank minutes before the attack started on Dec. 7," Kerby said. "It was kind of a sobering moment realizing that that was the shot that started the Pacific war." A submersible is visible inspecting the wreck of a Japanese "midget" submarine sunk shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor began. Photo courtesy of Hawai'i Undersea Laboratory He said it was also a somber moment because the remains of the two Japanese crew members are likely entombed in the sunken submarine. The two submersibles made several "fly bys" to be sure of their find. The confirmation, Kerby said, came when he saw the submarine's two torpedoes still in their tubes and a gaping hole at the base of the vessel's conning tower. "The Ward was able to get very close to them and they were so close when they fired the shot from the deck that the gunner said he had to aim it like a squirrel rifle," Kerby said. "The first-shot crew claimed that they hit the sub right at the base of the conning tower, and that's what we saw." Martinez said it is too early to say whether there will be any attempts to recover the submarine. He said many agencies — including the Japanese government and family members of the two crew members — will have to be consulted. But he said there is no doubt that there will be international interest in the find because of the Ward's place in history. In the early morning on Dec. 7, the Ward was notified of a vessel in the Pearl Harbor "defensive sea area," where submarines were supposed to sail above water. At 6:40 a.m., the Ward sounded general quarters. Five minutes later, the Ward opened fire on the suspicious object. At 6:53, about an hour before the aerial attack on Pearl Harbor began, the Ward sent a radio message that it fired on and dropped depth charges on a submarine. The vessel, the Ward said, did not come up. Terry Kerby, left, led the team from the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory that found the sub. National Park Service historian Daniel Martinez, right, said Kerby's find confirms accounts of the first shots of America's war in the Pacific. Gregory Yamamoto • The Honolulu Advertiser The crew was not aware of the origin of the submarine, only that it did not belong in those waters. History would show that the submarine was one of five sent by the Japanese to slip into the harbor and wait for the air attack. None of the submarines returned to the Japanese fleet. One got into the harbor and was rammed and sunk by the destroyer USS Monaghan during the attack. Another one washed ashore in Waimanalo. Another was found in waters off O'ahu in the 1960s. Until yesterday there was no trace of the other two, including the one that was sunk by the Ward. Since 1988, the U.S. Parks Service and University of Hawai'i has searched for the sunken sub. In 2000, Ballard, known for his discovery of the ocean liner Titanic and German battleship Bismarck, led a National Geographic expedition that searched without success for the submarine. Martinez has made a half-dozen trips in search of the submarine. He said the waters off Pearl Harbor became a dumping ground for used military equipment and other items and finding the mini-sub was nothing short of a miracle. "The bottom that exists off the entrance to Pearl Harbor is a virtual World War II museum. To find a metal object among that kind of debris field is extremely difficult," he said. Among the items that Martinez said are down there are trucks, airplanes, landing craft and tractors. He credited the persistence and dedication of Kerby and the HURL team with finding the submarine. "The University of Hawai'i has made a hyper-leap in underwater archaeology. Lesser people would have given up," Martinez said. "When I went out there and I saw what they were challenged with, I thought when we didn't find it, it was over."
Poster Comment: Our government knew about Pearl Harbor at least an hour before it happened and did nothing. They broke the Japanese code before Pearl Harbor too. So there is much historical evidence to suggest that Obamas pastor is RIGHT on the pearl harbor issue.
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