[SSJup81]

I can't recall where I read or saw this, but it was dealing with American soldiers who fought in WWII and those responsible for the bombing and how awful they felt after doing so. Being in a war period has to be horrific for all directly involved; soldiers and innocent civilians.

Just because soldiers fight in a war (with bombs) killing left and right, doesn't mean they enjoy it or actually want to. They're apart of their country's military and don't have much of a choice if they don't want to get thrown into a federal prison or something for "disobeying orders". This is why I'm against war, and if we must fight, there should be some official neutral zone, so that the only ones fighting are just the soldiers. No innocents period. They should ban bombs too! They should fight the old-fashioned way or something.

That aside, every single solitary country on this planet have their "skeletons in the closet", Japan included. Look at all the stuff done in the past, like with the raping of all those young innocent Korean girls or girls forced into having sex with the Japanese soldiers. It's not death, but it's psychologically traumatizing. Either way it's still sad that innocent people were involved. By your own logic, Tenchu all Japanese men must be sex-crazed scum based on this particular instance. Guess they can't be trusted. Of course this isn't true, but your views do seem a bit...off to me. You seem to accuse the poster (whose name I can't recall) of condoning the killing of innocents in a war. I'm not under that impression at all.

Maybe if you'd live in the US, you'd understand how frustrated and annoyed a lot of people are over this. If our "leader" wants to go to war for his own selfish reasons, the "common man" can't overrule his decision and those in the military have no choice but to listen because it's their job, no matter how much they could be against it. To me, this is nothing but another Vietnam, only no innocents are being forced into fighting this time. I don't know anyone personally who was for this war in Iraq. Even our military don't have as many recruits now because of it and advertise like crazy and giving incentives to try and get people to join the military (army, particularly, from what I've seen). Live in the US for a while or interact with more than just a small handful of people before coming to such conclusions, imo.