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To: narby
My point still stands that what we were unwilling to do against the Germans, target civlians, were were quite happy to do against Japanese civlians.

You don't know anything about the history of WWII or you'd know Germany suffered nearly a million civilian dead. And you would know that incendiary bombs were indeed used in raids on Germany. It was simply impossible given the technology of the day to minimize civilian deaths from bombing the way we can today.

And whose fault was it that Japan suffered such devastation from the urban bombing campaign??? Any government remotely concerned about its citizenry or the future of its nation would have surrendered before it ever got to that point. But the Japanese fascists refused - they were apparently willing to allow the total destruction of almost all their major cities - until TWO atomic bombs persuaded them to do the right thing. That blood is on the hands of Tojo and his fellow fanatic fascists.

208 posted on 03/07/2007 10:03:10 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker
You don't know anything about the history of WWII

Obviously you don't know about the battles of the 8th Air Force to make daylight bombing work, specifically so we didn't have to do night time firebomb raids. It was the British that flew those.

It was simply impossible given the technology of the day to minimize civilian deaths from bombing the way we can today.

There was a specific time when the US made a conscious decision to stop flying HE bomb missions against Japanese military targets, and began firebombing their cities.

That blood is on the hands of Tojo and his fellow fanatic fascists.

I get your point. Two wrongs make a right. Because the Japs were barbaric, it was OK if Americans were barbaric. Then Lindbergh was right. American soldiers did murder Japanese soldiers under a white flag, and you think that's just fine.

210 posted on 03/07/2007 4:18:23 PM PST by narby
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