Right you are.
This thread is infected with moral equivalizing worthy of the worst leftists. The German victimology is more of the same.
Bombing of Dresden a war crime? Drivel.
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"On January 26, Portal had sent a lengthy and tersely worded minute to DCAS ruling out thunderclap, as four consecutive days were unlikely to come at this time of the year. 'Subject to the overriding claims of oil and such other agreed targets as the rocket and jet engine factories, submarine building yards for marginal effort etc, we should use available effort in one big attack on Berlin and attacks on Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz or any other cities where a severe blitz will not only cause confusion in the evacuation from the East but will also hamper the movement of troops' [from the western to the eastern front. Page is torn]"
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"On February 5, 1945 Sir Charles Portal, British Chief of Air Staff, signalled from Yalta to London that the Russians had again proposed a strategic "bomb-line" running through Stettin to Berlin to Dresden to Zagreb.
"To enable me to argue against this please send Most Immediate a few good objectives against which we desire to maintain our attacks until they become involved in tactical situation on land. Reply must reach me by 1000C tomorrow 6th February." [8]
In his reply on February 5, the Deputy Chief of Air Staff sent to Portal a list of good objectives for attack until the tactical situation on land -- i.e. the proximity of friendly armies -- prevented them.
First priority, 'A', were Oil targets like Pölitz, Ruhland, and seven oil refineries in the Vienna area;
Second priority, 'B', were the only two transportation and industrial areas listed, which were Berlin and Dresden.
'C' and 'D' were factories making tanks and self-propelled guns, and jet engines."
http://www.fpp.co.uk/History/bombing/Thunderclap/harrying_refugees_0145.html
2005 standards cannot be applied to a war 60 years earlier. There were no precision bombs then. I'm not even convinced there should be only precision bombing now. There is much to be said for utter defeat of the enemy. It stops "insurgencies" and saves our soldier's lives.
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Yea, but from their perspective you MUST show that we acted the same. If we all did the same things then they were not bad. Then they just lost the war.
That's why they try to bring up the Indians, the Japanese Americans and so on. The logic that follows is "We all do this kind of stuff, so what we killed 6 MILIION Jews?" By trying to tear others into the mud pit with them they attempt to wash their hands free of this nasty past.
Thanks for the link. I didn't know about the background and purpose of the Dresden bombing.
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