Hiroshima Nuclear Attack: A U.S. War Crime?

"In our legal system, if someone breaks the law by entering your home, you are not permitted to break the law and kill them. The actions of others do not excuse your own. "

Quite correct, but you're omitting some of the reasons for that (just adding here to complete the picture). The US troops during the Pacific War mostly didn't take take prisoners. There are thousands of documents proving evidence that after Japanese soldiers had surrendered they were shot by the US soldiers. The consequence was that Japanese propaganda took up on this fact and told not to surrender, because they would get shot anyway. So what's better? Dying while fighting desperately for your country or dying while surrendering to the enemy?

yeah, sounds like a totally fair counter-attack.

i love that the majority of the people replying are American, so excluding the fact that most of the replies are fueled by patriotism and bias.

Now how about a little kudos for the Americans for not raping and pillaging Japan, Germany and Italy like everyone else used to do pre-WWII? Where was our spoils of war? We did the right thing and rebuild their countries.

Now look at today's comparisons... We're rebuilding where we go (Iraq and Afghanistan). It took 11 years before we ended formal occupation of Japan, and when we were done they were on their way to being #2 besides us in the world! People back then said that Japan was a feudalistic society and could never be democratized.

They were indignant fighters till the end. If you look at what their civies did during the battles of Okinawa and Iwo and every other island fight, they had less than a 5% survival rate. Why? They would rather jump off cliffs than surrender.

This saved lives people, get it in your head. Also, stop playing monday morning friggin quarterback and hating the country that guarantees your freedom now, and look at what we were up against, and why. The Japanese back then thought of everyone else as subhuman. The ONLY reason they started to give Americans respect is because we were the ONLY country in their entire history to have defeated them.

if you look up lists of warcrimes throught the 20th century, all the crimes commited by other countries were harshly punished, but the ones perpetrated by the allies (American's more Specifically) are just passed of and someone is put in jail for a few years. the war crimes of other nations always end with executions and such.

Americans are just too much of babies to admit they did wrong and have no honor to step up and say , "yes we did wrong , now lets execute our leaders because they tarnished the image of our nation."