Posted on 01/23/2006 9:52:21 PM PST by doug from upland
Just when you thought the president could not get into any more trouble, there is a major scandal brewing. It has been revealed that he authorized a bombing raid, conducted by both Americans and Brits, using incendiary bombs that targeted civilians. There were no military targets. I guess if anything should lead to impeachment, this is it. The liberals are going to be going nuts. Here is the story.
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In 1941 Charles Portal of the British Air Staff advocated that entire cities and towns should be bombed. Portal claimed that this would quickly bring about the collapse of civilian morale in Germany. Air Marshall Arthur Harris agreed and when he became head of RAF Bomber Command in February 1942, he introduced a policy of area bombing (known in Germany as terror bombing) where entire cities and towns were targeted.
One tactic used by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force was the creation of firestorms. This was achieved by dropping incendiary bombs, filled with highly combustible chemicals such as magnesium, phosphorus or petroleum jelly (napalm), in clusters over a specific target. After the area caught fire, the air above the bombed area, become extremely hot and rose rapidly. Cold air then rushed in at ground level from the outside and people were sucked into the fire.
In 1945, Arthur Harris decided to create a firestorm in the medieval city of Dresden. He considered it a good target as it had not been attacked during the war and was virtually undefended by anti-aircraft guns. The population of the city was now far greater than the normal 650,000 due to the large numbers of refugees fleeing from the advancing Red Army.
On the 13th February 1945, 773 Avro Lancasters bombed Dresden. During the next two days the USAAF sent over 527 heavy bombers to follow up the RAF attack. Dresden was nearly totally destroyed. As a result of the firestorm it was afterwards impossible to count the number of victims. Recent research suggest that 35,000 were killed but some German sources have argued that it was over 100,000.
Thanks for the historical smack-upside-the-head.
War sucks. Fight to win, or don't fight.
Jinkies! We need to fire a subpoena out to President Roosevelt right away.
:-D )))
We are fighting the most humane war in human history. We do occasionally need to smack the traitors here at home upside the head.
"Bomber" Harris, also known as "Butcher" Harris.
Great post. This should be posted again tomorrow for more to see.
Don't know what to say Doug
It is Ugly, very ugly
Are you aiming this at Iran?
I think Bush was mean to the Japanese too....
Not aiming at Iran --- this is aimed at the libs who need some historic perspective.
Dresden has always been a tenet of Neonazism.
Treat the subject with dryness, there's no need to inflame old passion.
This is not about old passion; it is to stick it to the libs and their hero Roosevelt. Roosevelt knew then what Bush knows now --- we are saving Western Civilization.
Unfortunately, we will have to throw PC to the wind and revert to these tactics to overcome our Iran problem. Pinpoint accuracy won't be enough.
bttt
After I got over it, other images sprang to mind
The summary executions of Guards outside of Extermination Camps
Mussolini and his significant hung upside down near a Gas Station
there are more
Thanks Doug
Did we get any naked pictures of them in dog collars before they were summarily executed? :)
It's a hand grenade, comparing Bush to Roosevelt. You definitely are hitting liberals with it, and everyone else in the room!
The situation in Iran is very, very scary. If the flow of oil is stopped or they destroy their own and others' infrastructure, it could lead to a collapse of the world economy. When all the libs lose their jobs, will they be yelling about blood for oil or will they just want us to get it?
The article is a pile of stinking BS.
Victory most often goes to the most ruthless.
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