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To: Howard Jarvis Admirer
No, he never wrote the words you attributed to him above. As I said McKilliam wrote them and claimed to be quoting Spaight. Here is McKilliam's article where you can find him "quoting" Speight (sic). You will notice this is an apologetic of Hitler and an indictment of those awful Joooos.

Here is Spaight's book online. You will notice the same paragraph you posted attributed to Spaight via McKilliam's article here on the index page. But if you go to Chapter III pg 74, as it says on the index page, you will not find that paragraph in Spaight's book.

Now, if we can dispense with your tendencies to quote neo-Nazi propaganda in defense of your terrorist apologetics perhaps you can answer a straight question about your own words.

Britain was attacked and already well into a war with Germany. Where is the equivalent situation for Al Quada to attack us on 9/11 as you claim?

35 posted on 02/22/2007 12:23:51 AM PST by TigersEye (Intellectuals only exist if you think they do.)
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To: TigersEye

No need for me to quote any propaganda - I've quoted Winston Churchill himself for the proposition that Dresden was a "mere act(s) of terror and wanton destruction." Further, I do not apologize for any terrorist attack - I condemn terrorist attacks made on civilians by anyone.

You "Britain was attacked and already well into a war with Germany. Where is the equivalent situation for Al Quada to attack us on 9/11 as you claim?"

Response - Britain was not attacked - Poland was attacked by Germany and the Soviet Union. Britain declared war on Germany then Germany declared war on Britain.

"Again, your Spaight quotes are quite selective. JM Spaight's Bombing Vindicated:

'Today we can hold our heads high. Could we have done so if we had continued the policy which we adopted in September, 1939, and maintained until May, 1940? It was a selfish policy after all, an ungenerous one, an unworthy one. We were prepared to see our weaker neighbours' cities devastated by air attack—OF THE TACTICAL ORDER—to bear their misfortunes with equanimity, to do nothing to help them in the only way in which we could help at all. (We had no great army then to oppose to the German hosts, and the mills of sea power grind very slowly.) We were prepared, in fact, to leave them to their fate provided we could save our own skin. Our Great Decision As it was, we chose the better, because the harder, way. We refused to purchase immunity—immunity for a time at least—for our cities while those of our friends went up in flames. We offered London as a sacrifice in the cause of freedom and civilisation."

Britain began bombing Germany only after Germany had bombed Poland, and Norway, and Belgium, France and Holland. Even then Britain tried to bomb only precise military targets with small numbers of aircraft.

Spaight isn't saying what you want him to at all."

Actually, Spaight admits in the above quote that the Germans were using tactical bombing "OF THE TACTICAL ORDER" when they took cities in support of their army. The British did not use tactical bombing as the Germans did - as Veale discusses in his book. Dresden was not a tactical bombing in support of a siege or of armaments factories in a city - it was a targeted terror bombing of civilians - as Churchill admitted.

Germany did not attack Britain and did not start the terror bombing of civilians (per Veale's book and your quote) and to my knowledge the U.S. did not attack Al Queda or Arabs and did not do anything that justified the WTC attacks on civilians by Al Quada - nonetheless, absurd atrocities were committed at Dresden and the WTC.


43 posted on 02/22/2007 12:56:33 AM PST by Howard Jarvis Admirer (Howard Jarvis, the foe of the tax collector and friend of the California homeowner)
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