meatcleaver
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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611 You want to know what it appears like to me, MC? Apparently you think anyone that participates in a war is committing a war crime. For some reason people have trouble understanding that in a war...PEOPLE DIE! Lots of people die! You can try to be as careful as you can, but no matter what innocent people are going to die. Does that mean it is a war crime? Nope. It's considered "collateral damage." It is only a war crime when the people are specifically targetted. Japan attacked the United States where nearly 2,500 people died. That is an act of war. America won the war and Japan paid the price. So dont try to twist and rewrite history to serve your own anti-America agenda. If Japan didn't attack America, they would not have been nuked. And Europe would have lost to Germany. I have no problem with people going to war when they are attacked and people die but if we are going down the road of justification, it was the USA that forced Japan to open up its ports in what is known in Japan as the humiliation of the unequal treaties. The USA told them what the consequences would be if they didn't in no uncertain terms. The reason for Japan's militarisation and modernisation was to prevent itself becoming a colony of the west. So it was America who interfered first, the USA's history with Japan didn't start at Pearl Harbour! However, the slaughter of 200,000 Japanese civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was just that, slaughter, it wasn't militarily necessary. But let's get back to thje OP, it is about America's hypocrisy. Many Americans seem to find it incomprehensible that some other country might want nukes as a defence against the US and the west, just look at the west record! The west is mad! Just step out of your American shoes for one moment, take off your blinkers and look at America's behaviour from an objective point of view.
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