Are Dems able to see clearly?
"Bomb shelters turned into ovens and roasted persons inside, so that rescue workers days later found the bodies seared together in an indistinguishable mass; the molten asphalt of the streets engulfed those who fled the burning buildings."
- description of firebombing of Hamburg, Germany
2007-11-06 14:23:47 · 13 answers · asked by Duminos 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Roasting humans is good?
Waterboarding a few terrorists is bad?
What's missing in that logic?
2007-11-06 14:24:30 · update #1
Oof. Sad but true.
2007-11-06 14:26:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
OK so what's your point? a mighty big stretch to Tie those together, blame Carl Von Clausewitz then, for total war. Are you so sick as to see no difference or are too perverted to care?
besides the fact you are lying about the number of dead at Hamburg, typical BS story inflate the numbers, sound like a Bush family member
Most of the casualties (40,000) caused by Operation Gomorrah happened on this single night.
On the night of July 29, Hamburg was again attacked by over 700 aircraft. The last raid of Operation Gomorrah was conducted on August 3.
Operation Gomorrah caused at least 50,000 deaths and left over a million German civilians homeless. Approximately 3,000 aircraft were deployed, 9,000 tons of bombs dropped, and 250,000 houses destroyed. No subsequent city raid shook Germany as did that on Hamburg; documents show that German officials were thoroughly alarmed and there is some indication from later allied interrogation of high officials, that Hitler thought that further attacks of similar weight might force Germany out of the war. Hamburg was hit by air raids another 69 times before the end of World War II.
2007-11-06 22:58:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
During the Korean war, the UN forces (American) wiped out an entire South Korean town's population (or nearly so).
Why? The North Koreans set up a defense of barricades at every street corner. It was the only way to get the Commies out of the country. The lowest form of life is the one who will hide behind innocent people.
The fire bombing of Tokyo killed MORE people than the atomic bomb did.
2007-11-06 22:43:39 · answer #3 · answered by plezurgui 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The firebombing of German cities was a little more Churchil than FDR. But FDR did inter Japanese Americans, Truman did drop the bomb - and get us into the Korean War. And JFK got us into Vietnam. And Clinton got us into the Balkans (where we *oops* bombed the Chinese embasy) /and/ Somalia.
Let's face it, the Commander in Chief often has to order unpleasant, even horrific things, it's the nature of the office. Party notwithstanding.
2007-11-06 22:34:09 · answer #4 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Really? Did you hear what happened in London during the Blitz? Did you hear what Germans did to Jews and other "undesirables? What was done, like waterboarding, is because it needed to be done. I will not fault FDR or Truman for doing what was necessary to end the war anymore than I will fault Bush for doing what needs to be done now to save lives. Hitler did that to his own people by not surrendering.
2007-11-06 22:34:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
It is an axiom of civilized warfare that prisonners are treated with certain respect and rights. Japan failed to do that in WWII as did Germany in a couple of cases but to imagine that the US would do it by policy is - well, there's no nice way to say it - it's evil and wrong and completely strips any moral authority the US ever had; makes them a terrorist state just as it did to Germany and Japan in WWII.
2007-11-06 22:34:07 · answer #6 · answered by davster 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Big difference between bombs dropping from the sky and tying someone down and standing over them pouring water in their face!
2007-11-06 22:39:50 · answer #7 · answered by honestamerican 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wasn't that the British response to the v2 attacks on London?
2007-11-06 22:30:42 · answer #8 · answered by ken s 5 · 7⤊ 1⤋
None of them get upset when the terrorists behead someone. They say that person deserved it. Plus,these terrorists are not wearing uniforms either.
2007-11-06 22:30:22 · answer #9 · answered by Tin Foil Fez 5 · 7⤊ 2⤋
What you are leaving out is that we did not torture POWs during WW2.
That's an important difference because toward the end of the war many German troops surrendered to the Americans because they knew we treated POW well. It's what makes us better than the bad guys and it saved a lot of American lives.
Nice try though...
2007-11-06 22:30:01 · answer #10 · answered by arvis3 4 · 4⤊ 6⤋