91 yr old war criminal arrested

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Originally Posted by popplecop

Can you imagine what the loss of our servicmen would have been had we made an invasion of the Japense homeland? This alone justifies what we did for me.

The question would be whether the Japanese think it was a war crime to drop 2 atomic bombs on them, killing thousands of civilians in the process. It doesn't matter what you and I think was justified, even though I agree with you.

Personally, I think all this war crimes stuff is straight up BS. Seriously, we have rules pertaining to war when nations have nuclear missiles, machine guns, tanks, etc. It is against the rules of war to use hollow points, but if you shoot somebody with a tank round that is fine, or better yet run them over with a tank. Killing prisoners is also against the "rules", as is torture, etc. Well, if a country doesn't want to take prisoners, just issue an order to shoot them all during the "battle".

Ultimately, it just sucks to be on the losing side and it is nice to be on the winning side. You don't have to worry too much about who is going to be charged with war crimes when you are the victor.