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To: Sam Gamgee

So people who, from their air-planes, machine-gunned civilians fleeing to river during the fire-storm at Dresden should go free? Should a Vietnam vet Senator from Nebraska go free? Should the people who dropped the A-Bomb go free? Were all these evil people or not?

The Allied cause was just. But, as hard as it is to imagine, many people on the other side thought theirs was, too.

Going after Nazi war criminals at this stage of the game gives vindictiveness a rather bad name.


23 posted on 11/02/2005 7:54:30 PM PST by Lessingham (Robert Aickman and Russell Kirk: The Best Ghost Story Writers Are on The Right)
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To: Lessingham
Well there are some like me that differentiate between vengence and justice.
32 posted on 11/03/2005 12:58:22 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Lessingham

Col Tibbets and his colleagues were not evil.

The camp guards hiding in Canada, on the other
hand, were and are.

Judge the rest on an individual basis, and if cause
exists, bring charges. Good luck finding witnesses to
testify.


37 posted on 11/03/2005 1:11:00 PM PST by rahbert
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