The ethics of war

Reflections on the News and the Gospel for June 24, 2007
Today, June 24, 2007, 3 hours ago bpleland
Bush who while dispatching young Americans to be killed and eviscerated on the fields of slaughter in Iraq and Afghanistan makes this amazing statement “Destroying human life in the hope of saving human life is not ethical, ...

So, is it ever ethical to send young men and women to war? And I'm sure vice versa, is it ever ethical to abort a human life ... unborn child, or mass murderer?