War

God doesn't exist.

Shouldn’t this be worded “Should the US have invaded Iraq in 2003?”. The question as worded is not the same.

All evidence points to the fact that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by Islamist terrorists.

God doesn't interact in human affairs in that way. We were given free will for a reason.

To get straight to the point, I firmly disagree. Here, allow me to illustrate for you, a scene.

You are standing in the streets of Hiroshima, 1945. The world has just slipped out of war, but your home country is still fighting against the Americans. Now, you realise that Japan bombed Pearl Harbour, but it was only a phase of the war, correct? You don't feel too terribly upset for the people of Pearl Harbour. It was, after all, a military base. War is war is war. No long-lasting damage was done, the bombs that your country dropped on Pearl Harbour weren't even high power.

Looking up at the clear blue sky above, you see a few plans. Nothing too suspicious, nothing unusual. But upon further inspection, you notice the blue circle and white star symbolic of the nation that your country is at war against. Your eyes widen, you start to run. You've seen this in your nightmares; you know what is going to happen.

"Cover," you think, "I have to find cover..." But it's too late. Your world is thrown into chaos the moment you see the... thing being dropped from the sky. Obviously, the object is a bomb. You run faster and faster, trying to find some form of shelter from what you know is about to come.

It's no use.

The bomb hits the ground, and depending on your location, a number of things happen to you.

1. Within thirty feet of Ground Zero: you are instantly vaporized. You feel nothing, and neither the birds who happened to be flying over Japanese airspace. You (and they) are dead.
2. Within a mile of Ground Zero: you feel a searing pain erupt from your body. You are being burned alive, from the inside. If this is the case, you are lucky. Other people's molecular structures are completely rewritten, often leaving the bodies either disfigured or turned inside out. Either way, there is no hope for you. You are dead.
3. Within three miles of Ground Zero: you start to burn as well. However, you may not be doomed to die soon. No, your skin just turns coal black and shrivels up, your hair is gone. You are carted to a hospital, and you are denied the one thing that you really, truly desire: water. The doctors refuse to give you water, because giving you water will harm your now-brittle skin and organs. Eventually, you get water or you become too dehydrated. Either way, you are dead.
4. Within five miles of Ground Zero: your injuries heal, though you feel weak all the time. Pretty soon, you start to adapt mutations: growing nerves in your hair or fingernails. Your skin turns purple, your veins inflate, your muscles in your arms and legs start contracting on your bones and eventually break them. About a year or so later, you will die.

Did you know that the fallout from the A-Bomb causes leukaemia? Because you are twelve. You were born in 1943, and you are currently living in Fukuoka. Your neighbouring city, Nagasaki, was blown up ten years ago. The sky over the city still glows a hazy orange at night, though it's barely noticeable anymore. When your doctor tells your mother that you have leukaemia, she bursts into tears. You go to a hospital and start chemotherapy, but you know that you are going to die. Six months later, you do. Still twelve. Still innocent. Still young.

So, tell me. Were America's actions really justified? Can you honestly say that they were, now that you've "experienced" only a few of the horrors of the Atomic bombs? The A-Bomb was an untested weapon. Before America dropped it on Japan, he should have at least figured out what kind of power it packed.

Granted, this is coming from a German. A German who has lived in America for most of her memorable life, but a German nonetheless. An Axis Power. So don't believe me, if you don't want to. Go to Japan and see for yourself, in the various Hiroshima and Nagasaki museums.

GOD'S NOT REAL MUTHAFUCKAS!!!

that is true but i think they would have evacuated most of the citizens because they would have know about urban warfare where as the bombs they knew nothing about and could not evacuate the citizens so it killed more people

i agree with you and osama bin laden but we did attack japan and killed thousand with the atom bombs in ww2 and they were citizen too but America hand no remorse about it and we actually celebrated when we drop the bombs on japan plus remember that during that time not all Japanese Americans were spy's but we moved them to basically a mild concentration camp so i believe we should not be able to label others until all of American accepts we were terrorist in ww2 and possibly killed more civilians than any other country in the world

yea but the problem with that is that was it in Japanese or was it in English because English was most likely banned from japan in that time also was the source that you got that from was it reviewed by multiple parties or cultures to say it was true or did you make that up

i agree with the first paragraph but did we have to experience it to know we dont have to use it we may think that the bombs helped us but the Japanese only kill the military people and some civilians in pearl harbor but we kill military and CITIZEN 90,000–166,000 in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 killed in Nagasaki and they were men women children and BABIES plus there military was like china they filtered everything so the people didn't even know about pearl harbor or the other horrible thing their military did and we just bomb them all the citizen except the military don't know why we bomb them not just once but twice just everyone think about that

before you say that it was great to bomb the CITIZEN and mabye a few military and the problem is their are still places in those cities that are still closed off because of the radiation. also I see it a lot but some Americans cant swallow their pride and forgive because the Japanese have forgiven us plus if they didn't we would only have the xbox 360 because the ps2, 3 and psp is made by the Japanese also anime, Toyota, Suzuki and and Nintendo we would have none of that if they were like Americans and never forgive us for bombing them they knew nothing about until after ww2.

i am a seventeen year old and i say grow up and forgive people unless it something really bad and pearl harbor is nothing compared to the atom bombs so stop being selfish AMERICANS and swallow your pride and another thing is if we were going by our standards of classifying terrorist we would be just like Saddam and Asama bin Lapin killing the thousand of innocent CIVILIANS and i know what u will say why i capitalized CIVILIANS because i am making a point.

plus you guys all know this person and here is his quote

Osama Bin Laden Former Leader of Al Qaeda

The US today as a result of the arrogant atmosphere has set a double standard, calling whoever goes against its injustice a terrorist. It wants to occupy our countries, steal our resources, impose on us agents to rule us based not on what God has revealed and wants us to agree on all these. If we refuse to do so, it will say you are terrorists. ... The US does not consider it a terrorist act to throw atomic bombs [killing] women, children and elderly people [...] in Japan.

the fact that the Americans dropped leaflets over the city does not make the dropping of the bomb just. the leaflets were in english and most of the people in Japan couldnt speak english let alone read it. hundreds of thousands of innocent people died for nothing, they died because the Americans were looking for a quick fix and didnt want to deal with the concequences.

Good point, but both the Japanese and American armies were primarily draftees, so they didn't choose to fight any more than the civilians.

Also, urban warfare in Japanese cities would have killed many civilians-- except in stead of being in two cities, it would have been in every city.

lmao. this just kinda made my day. (: