Re: Now we know why the war crime of Dresden happened

On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:36:56 +0000, hummingbird
<ZYLYDWINUSED@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

typed:
>On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 01:03:45 +0100, abelard <abelard2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...
>
>>On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:26:54 +0000, hummingbird
>><ZYLYDWINUSED@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>>>>>The topic was covered on the news today and they mentioned the
>>>>>opposition to some of Churchill's cranky views in cabinet at the time
>>>>>- eg he wanted to electrocute Hitler & Co without a trial. Clearly he
>>>>>had a very vengeful side to his personality but this has been covered
>>>>>up for decades.
>>>>
>>>>none of that gives me any problem
>>>
>>>If you think it matters whether it gives you a problem or not, then
>>>you don't understand the point being made.
>>
>>1)your assertions give me no problem
>>2)i don't think it matters much
>
>Well the Americans thought it was a problem at the time as they
>disagreed with his idea that the 'rule of law' should be replaced
>by the 'rule of man'.

so?

>>>>doubtless he is also rather over hero worshipped elsewhere....
>>>
>>>He is hero-worshipped almost throughout official history.
>>
>>he is also reviled by/among other idiots....
>
>Perhaps, but whenever his name is mentioned or used, it's usually
>in the context of him being a great man.

he was a great man...adjust

>>it's mostly trivia....
>
>I don't see how wanting to electrocute people w/o a trial is trivia.
>It would mean he was little better than them.

don't be ridiculous....
do you really need to be told that attitudes to ritual state murder have
changed in 60 years as knowledge has advanced....
or are you dippy enuf to suggest there was some element of doubt
in the guilt of adolf....

fer chrisakes get the fluff out of your brain....

boredom threshold instigation warning light goes on....

>>>>that does not stop the rather obvious reality that he was a very great
>>>> man...
>>>
>>>It depends on how bad he was.
>>
>>bad?...he won...
>
>Winning anything does not automatically equal 'good'.
>Why do you think otherwise?

you want to act brainded...your privilege....
but don't expect me to plough through your mindless treacle...
rest binned unread...


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