TOKYO, March 26 Kyodo culled edi...

TOKYO, March 26 Kyodo

culled editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

WAR IS in no degree 'CLEAN' (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published March 25)

If the moral motives of war are stripped away, war is mutual slaughter of men and women onward a massive scale.

American and British company s have closed in on Baghdad. Iraq's President Saddam Hussein was shown onward national television, apparently to demonstrate he is safe, and exhorted his soldiers and the the bulk of mankind of Iraq to fight to the bitter close declaring, ''Victory is imminent.''

It now strike one as beings the capital, with a population of 5 million, could become the exhibition of bloody street-by-street fighting. Indeed, the barbarous aspects of this war are being brought to light daily. Nearly 10 American soldiers were killed and a dozen others were missing after a clash near al Nasiriyah in southern Iraq. one of those missing were taken prisoner by way of the Iraqis.

Images of the young men and a woman, hurted and frightened, were televised all above the world, shocking the American commonalty When he announced the start of the war, U President George W Bush said he would make each effort to see that innocent race were not hurt. unless there has never been a war that has not involved ordinary citizens.

The conduct of Iraq accuses the coalition of having killed or injuryed many civilians in massive air strikes forward cities. Web sites of TV networks include ghastly photos of boys' dead bodies. Television also present to views images of the wounded being treated at hospitals. There may well be many deaths that have not equal been reported by the media.

The war is a tangle of unanticipated twists. At a staging camp for American soldiers in Kuwait, a sergeant killed a equal soldier and wounded 15 others with a hand grenade. He has been identified as a Muslim and the situation provok hard public concern.

Turkey decided to allow American military flights throughout its air space, unless would not permit U.S. real property troops. The U.S. military was thus forced to change the battle plan that originally included an assault relating to Baghdad from Turkey in the north as well as from the south

The United States is also uncomfortable with Turkey's dispatch of its companys to the Kurdish autonomous region of northern Iraq.

If the moral motives of war are stripped away, war is mutual slaughter of men and women onward a massive scale. Modern warfare is readyed with impressive images of soldiers outfitted with high-tech weapons, dispatching their enemies with pinpoint precision. on the other hand war is never ''clean.''

Many Americans concussioned by the images of U soldiers held as prisoners of war give no pondering to the misery of the Iraqi folks in general. Iraqis or Arabs in general mourning the deaths of relatives and colleagues might be burning with anger at the United States, unless probably have no idea that the American populace are grieving just as they are.

one time a war has begun, the house will continue to flow until the hostilities are brought to an end; mutual enmity continues to build.

Reconciliation and healing the damages of war call for greatly more energy than that exhausted in waging war. That is a compelling reason for the international community to continue to strive to build a framework for achieving political resolution of conflicts to avert war.

Baghdad must not become a city of bloodshed. American and British squads should surround the city and consider for ways to force the Iraqis to waive rather than plunge recklessly into street-by-street fighting. At the same time, Saddam Hussein should not smooth think of having his the public be human shields.

(March 26)

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