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To: af_vet_1981

Under the precedent set at Nuremberg, Churchill, FDR, Truman, Stalin and any number of Generals could be found guilty of war crimes or waging aggressive war. As such, I find Nuremberg to be hypocritical and nothing more than victors justice. After all, if the precedents set at Nuremberg applied to everyone then Churchill would be guilty concerning the bombing of Dresden and other German cities and Truman would be guilty of dropping nukes in Japan.

If Nuremberg was limited simply to crimes against humanity (read: the systematic murder of civilians, Jews or otherwise) then it wouldn’t have been victors justice. However, obviously, Nuremberg wasn’t limited. We have to look at the entire trial, not just one count.


95 posted on 10/15/2014 6:38:01 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil
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To: LeoMcNeil

It seems to me you just walked back your walk back and still hold “As such, I find Nuremberg to be hypocritical and nothing more than victors justice.” It seems to me you write as an advocate for the Nazis and a prosecutor of the Americans and British who vanquished them. You neither answered my question as to why, nor mitigated the severe spiritual and secular error in such a position. I suppose it is indicative of our lost nation but cannot understand the motivation to hate America first and Germany last, given the Nazi war crimes.


96 posted on 10/15/2014 6:56:20 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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