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To: Romulus
act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities of extensive areas along with their population

The attacks on Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were attacks on military targets - not indiscriminate attacks undertaken solely to target civilians.

If the intent of such attacks had been solely to destroy large cities of extensive area and their populations, in both Japan and Germany there were larger cities with larger populations that were quite vulnerable and open to attack, but were not chosen.

53 posted on 12/12/2007 7:15:27 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake
The attacks on Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were attacks on military targets - not indiscriminate attacks undertaken solely to target civilians.

I'm relishing that Clintonian "solely". Neatly done.

Of course the nature of an indiscriminate attack is its indifference to targeting.

The historical record is quite clear that civilian terror was a conscious aim of those behind the aerial bombardment. You know this.

93 posted on 12/12/2007 9:07:39 AM PST by Romulus ("Ira enim viri iustitiam Dei non operatur")
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