Re: Is anybody getting tired of the Mccain War Stories?

On Sep 6, 4:28 pm, Raymond <Bluerhy...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> 232 Years of  American Warfare
> By JOHN STANTON
>
> "Great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we
> did not live up to this obligation." That according to Leo Szilard,
> the Manhattan Project physicist commenting on the United States and
> its decision in August of 1945 to obliterate non-military targets
> Hiroshima (70,000 dead instantly with 210,000 total deaths) and
> Nagasaki (40,000 dead instantly with 200,000 total deaths) in Japan.

Nope.  Szilard was commenting on our decision to obliterate the
MILITARY targets of Hiroshima (no more than 140,000 total deaths --
and that includes soldiers) and Nagasaki (no more than 80,000 total
deaths).



> In February of 1945 in Dresden, Germany, the United States--and its
> coalition partner Great Britain--were engaged in the firebombing
> slaughter of scores of German civilians and refugees fleeing the
> Soviet Army's advance. According to rense.com. "Dresden was a hospital
> city for wounded soldiers. Not one military unit, not one anti-
> aircraft battery was deployed in the city. Together with the 600, 000
> refugees from Breslau, Dresden was filled with nearly 1.2 million
> people. Churchill had asked for "suggestions on how to blaze 600,000
> refugees. He wasn't interested in how to target military installations
> 60 miles outside of Dresden. More than 700,000 phosphorus bombs were
> dropped on 1.2 million people. One bomb for every 2 people. The
> temperature in the center of the city reached 1600 degrees centigrade.
> More than 260,000 bodies and residues of bodies were counted. But
> those who perished in the center of the city could not be traced.
> Approximately 500,000 children, women, the elderly, wounded soldiers
> and the animals of the zoo were slaughtered in one nightOthers hiding
> below ground died. But they died painlessly--they simply glowed bright
> orange and blue in the darkness. As the heat intensified, they either
> disintegrated into cinders or melted into a thick liquid--often three
> or four feet deep in spots."

The US was only trying to bomb the railyards -- a legitimate target.
Complaints about the burning of the city itself should be addressed to
the UK.

(Note: only 25,000 were killed in the UK's bombing of Dresden)



> Writing in World War II magazine, Christopher Lew points out that the
> Americans incinerated Tokyo, Japan in March of 1945 via firebombing
> raids killing 100,000 civilians. The US government engaged in military
> campaigns such as Operation Starvation meant to deny food supplies to
> the population. Every city in Japan was targeted in a ruthless,
> murderous and calculated manner. Yet, the Emperor of Japan's residence
> was considered off limits by US commanders (the rationale being he
> would be an asset in the post-war era "For three hours over Tokyo, 334
> B-29s unleashed their cargo [including napalm] upon the dense city
> below. The fires raged out of control in little less than 30 minutes,
> aided by a 28-mph wind. Even the water in the rivers reached the
> boiling point. The fire was so intense that it created updrafts that
> tossed the gigantic B-29s around as if they were feathers. Officially
> the Japanese listed 83,793 killed and 40,918 injured. A total of
> 265,171 buildings were destroyed, and 15.8 square miles of the city
> were burned to ashes. It was the greatest urban disaster, man-made or
> natural, in all of history." The slaughter of the Japanese and their
> cities was unrelenting and so insidiously effective that the US
> military ran out of targets.

Guess they shouldn't have bombed Pearl Harbor......
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