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Originally Posted by Hatredcopter
The Russian's rape and killing of civilians/POWs is absolutely incomparable in scale to what happened in Vietnam.
You take this, you brush it off and instead bring up American war crimes in Vietnam, and then go on to talk all this nonsense about being Bushido and pure in war. Am I defending what happened in Vietnam? Hell no. I'm simply pointing out the hypocrisy.
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While I agree with some of this, I think there is something more basic that is wrong here. First of all, regardless of the body count, killing of civilians is deplorable so there is no "this was worse than that".
Secondly, the even more disgusting crime in both of these instances was the the leadership of countries turning a blind eye to the slaughter, tacit support of the perpetrators and when the truth became known worldwide claiming either expedience or ignorance of what was done.
There is no country on this planet that can claim never to have perpetrated such war crimes!
Tenchu, you are in the Phillipines. How can you condem another country when thousands of Filipinos were tortured, slaughtered and driven from their land by Ferdinand Marco, while Imelda "shoe queen" played with her fetish? And that was not even a war. Look to your own history before you condemn others. Lets see you justify the Phillipine death squads that the U.N. is investigating now. Even the Pinoy press reports on it regularly.