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Originally Posted by Enkidu22
I'm too lazy to write so much as you did (^_^) so I will just say that of course you may have your opinion and I'm not saying that I must be 100% right (most likely there is some truth on both sides) but the fact is that most of non-american WW II specialists agree that Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't necesary and every year more and more books and publications about war on Pacific state so. This show that there might have been another way.
Also from other conflicts throught the XX century I developed an opinion that US politics generaly don't care about civilian lives. Korea, Vietnam and Iraq show clearly that they disquise US interests and their own agenda into "fighting for freedom/justice/democracy" and such things, and they don't care that innocent suffer. The thing is that becose of modern mass media people all around the world see this and they start to hate americans.
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Modern mass media is severely biased in many cases. Al Jezeera is incredibly biased against the US and Israel, as is the Guardian and other leftist media outlets. Even most American media has a massive leftist tilt that tends to be anti-American (polls show 92% of American newscasters are leftists!) Many good things are happening in Iraq, but that never gets reported. Violence is way down, refugees are returning by the thousands, the terrorists are losing ground, etc, but they won't report that because they don't want America or Bush to be able to point to it and say "look, there are some successes." Yeah, it was botched for a long time, many mistakes were made, but the surge is working and conditions are improving rapidly now.
The US does care about fighting for freedom, democracy, and justice. They aren't just slogans or disguises. It doesn't always work out as planned, but then there is an old soldier's saying "no plan of battle ever survives first contact with the enemy". It is all that BS about "war for oil" that are the lies and slogans. If we wanted oil, Saddam was eager to sell as much as he could (look at the oil for food scandal in the UN where tons of people and countries were taking him up on his offer.) If we wanted his oil so badly, why haven't we taken it yet? We've been there for years, we're paying much more than usual for gas here, and yet most Iraqi oil is being sold to Europe and Asia. We get our gas from other countries.