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To: #3Fan; rustbucket
That's how wars are won, by going after supplies.

About the 50th time we've seen this from you.

Please name the military targets in Chaleston, Atlanta, and Columbia which Sherman's men were after. Please also cite evidence of the military value of the swath of Georgia countryside 200 miles wide which was destroyed, and the military value of the homes which were destroyed.

Perhaps you can also afford us information concerning what supplies were being shipped out of Dresden for the German army, and what supplies were being furnished by German POWs in American camps after the European war was over. I don't want to sidetrack this thread into WWII, but since you keep bringing it up...

1,808 posted on 03/28/2004 5:17:18 AM PST by Gianni (Sarcasm, the other white meat.)
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To: Gianni
I chalk this up as a bad experience, something I stepped in on the lawn. Talk about incorrigible! I'll know better next time.
1,809 posted on 03/28/2004 8:16:11 AM PST by rustbucket
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To: Gianni
About the 50th time we've seen this from you. Please name the military targets in Chaleston, Atlanta, and Columbia which Sherman's men were after.

4CJ admitted that Sherman's actions cut supplies to the Confederate armies because he said the POWs got what the armies got and Sherman caused both to be short of supplies. So you may want to ask 4CJ to prove it also. lol

Please also cite evidence of the military value of the swath of Georgia countryside 200 miles wide which was destroyed, and the military value of the homes which were destroyed.

Ask 4CJ, he's my source.

Perhaps you can also afford us information concerning what supplies were being shipped out of Dresden for the German army, and what supplies were being furnished by German POWs in American camps after the European war was over. I don't want to sidetrack this thread into WWII, but since you keep bringing it up...

If you want to be consistent and call Ike a war criminal, that's fine with me, that's what I was asking for...consistency. So according to you, Sherman was a war criminal, Ike was one, whoever ordered the firebombing of Germany was one, Truman was one for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, someone else was for the firebombing of Tokyo. Again, all according to you. I don't think any were, I think that to win, you go after supplies. I wonder if a general with Gianni's philosophy ever won a major conflict. Even the confederate troops under Hood looted as they went through confederate Tennessee (I think that part was confederate).

1,812 posted on 03/28/2004 2:49:47 PM PST by #3Fan (Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
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