Re: Destruction of civilians in WWII....

Christian Williamson <c.willi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in alt.politics.bush:


You leftists are all exercised about waterboarding. But look at what US
allies did to civilians in Hamburg during WWII:

"Oxygen starvation and carbon monoxide poisoning killed many;
bomb shelters turned into ovens and roasted the 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."

And then there are the nuclear bombs that Dem Prez Truman used against
the civilian population of Japan.

Mixing the false-analogy and two-wrongs arguments in the same post? You
still have a good supply of straw too.

I hear you can buy a conscience on E-Bay, by the way: Chuck Schumer just
put his on the block. (Of course, Di Fi gave up hers long ago.)
.

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