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VANITY: Definition of "Carpet Bombing"
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Posted on 01/28/2016 8:23:46 PM PST by TigerClaws

Carpet bombing, also known as saturation bombing, is a large aerial bombing done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land.[1][2][3][4] The phrase evokes the image of explosions completely covering an area, in the same way that a carpet covers a floor. Carpet bombing is usually achieved by dropping many unguided bombs.

The term obliteration bombing is sometimes used to describe especially intensified bombing with the intention of destroying a city or a large part of the city.[5] The term area bombing refers to indiscriminate bombing of an area,[5] and also encompasses cases of carpet bombing, including obliteration bombing. It was used in that sense especially during World War II.[5] Carpet bombing is considered a war crime[6] as of the 1977 Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions.

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KEYWORDS: antidefense; misinformed; newyork; peacenik; yetanothervanity
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To: TigerClaws

Civilians shouldn’t be writing anti-defense garbage containing assumptions about military matters to Wikipedia or any other publication. Area bombing can be used effectively and without collateral damage in some circumstances against enemy military posts, bases and convoys.


21 posted on 01/28/2016 8:55:30 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy")
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To: jwalsh07
You probably want to try Roosevelt and Truman in absentia.

The only reason this hasn't happened already, at least in some leftwing law school, is that both Roosevelt and Truman were Democrats.

22 posted on 01/28/2016 8:56:05 PM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: proust

They gave us Justin Bieber. Same thing.


23 posted on 01/28/2016 9:24:52 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: TigerClaws

Hmmmm ..?? During the lead in to the Iraq war, our huge bombers were “carpet bombing” air strips, main roads, bridges, etc.

And .. “carpetbombing” is a series of very small bombs all loaded together .. dropped partially together .. and it plows a path of destruction that you could not do with a series of single bombs.

We used to watch them use that type of bombing in Iraq.

So, CRUZ DOES KNOW WHAT HE’S TALKING ABOUT. Stop blindly believing everything the left-wing media says.


24 posted on 01/28/2016 9:28:10 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The Fields are White Unto Harvest")
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To: proust
Has Canada ever carpet bombed anyone?

The Baldwin Mansion.....

25 posted on 01/28/2016 9:30:03 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: TigerClaws

Somebody should check his syntax and grammar too.
We can’t have all this loose talk.


26 posted on 01/29/2016 12:36:30 AM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: GraceG

WORLD WAR III
IN THE PLANNING STAGES

Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are sitting in a bar.

A guy walks in and asks the barman,
‘Isn’t that Trump and Rubio sitting over there?’
The bartender says, ‘Yep, that’s them.’

So the guy walks over and says, ‘Wow, this is a real honor!
What are you guys doing in here?’

Trump says, ‘We’re planning WW III.’
The guy says, ‘Really? What’s going to happen?’

Trump says, ‘Well, we’re going to kill 140 million Muslims and one blonde with big tits.’

The guy exclaimed, ‘A blonde with big tits?
Why kill a blonde with big tits?’

Trump turns to Rubio and says, ‘See, I told you, no one gives a damn about 140 million Muslims.’


27 posted on 01/29/2016 1:12:01 AM PST by razorback-bert (Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

That is what Huma does to herself after an overnight ‘business meeting’ with Hill. It involves a can of Raid fogger. :/


28 posted on 01/29/2016 2:21:59 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: TigerClaws
Definition of "Carpet Bombing"

It is what these two do when they are alone.


29 posted on 01/29/2016 4:30:34 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: ArtDodger

“It involves a can of Raid fogger.”

ROFL


30 posted on 01/29/2016 10:42:30 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
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