As usual for internet conversations someone read Rapier's or someone else's remarks and decided I had belittled servicemen and women.



It seems some people need a devil's advocate to rant at regarding their war experience. Rant on, you have a right to be angry.

I have not judged those in military service but historicly judgments are made.


We placed distinctions between the SS and the Vermacht after WW II and the same distinctions still apply to invading armies.
Those that are drafted by the Nazis were thought to be somehow less culpable for war crimes. One would want to be judged by their piers in such matters. Judging yourself of war crimes is a lifetime anguish that probably stirs anger within all those that have fought wars.


Often overlooked is the fact that there are lifetime scars from fighting against war as well as fighting in a war. Some are victims and some are heros but all are wounded in some way.

IMO unwounded chicken hawks like Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld who fight for unjustified war are the most vile of all criminals.