Watch out for that shoe, Mr. President!

[King of Snake]

Originally Posted by myrrh

I don't think that the situations are quite the same, but now that you mention it, our current situation is worse because the Iraqi's weren't doing anything to justify us killing so many of their people. At least we were technically at war with Japan when we decided to start dropping bombs on them.

yeah that was kinda the point i wanted to make.
While I don't exactly want to go into an argument about whether or not dropping atomic bombs on civilians was justified or not. At least from a historic standpoint I think we can safely say that the war on Japan in general was justified, since they allied with Nazi Germany and actually attacked the US (not to mention attacked and occupied many other countries before that).