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To: Restorer

We won didn't we? Every dead German was one less to pick up a gun. To say that the resources Germans expended defending their cities and the fighter pilots they sacrificed in a hopeless effort did not degrade their ability to wage war is silly. We had complete air supremacy by D-Day. That didn't just happen. Germany was waging their second war in a generation. They needed to be defeated utterly.


7 posted on 08/07/2006 7:18:32 AM PDT by WilliamWallace1999
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To: WilliamWallace1999
The stated goal of "area bombardment" was to "break the German will." It failed in this. It had other military effects that contributed to the shortening of the war, as you note.

Every dead German was one less to pick up a gun.

True. Except that since most German men were off in the military, those affected by the area bombing were primarily civilians, mostly women and children.

10 posted on 08/07/2006 7:24:05 AM PDT by Restorer
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18 posted on 08/07/2006 12:15:01 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: WilliamWallace1999

Thank you!
It worked just fine! Thousands fewer German/Nazi sympathizers.
You'd think people would learn from history- or just the laws of cause and effect!
Start sh*t, GET sh*it.
Today Muslims =Nazis.
There were NO 'good Nazis' then. It would have been ludicrous-and treasonous- to suggest that only the SS were 'bad' Nazis, and that Nazism inherently bad.
Only the names have changed now.
If you believe in something inherently evil, you are evil.
It's so simple no one wants to face it.


19 posted on 08/07/2006 12:20:40 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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