[Johnnyboy2000]

"United States when it bombed the German city of Dresden in World War II."


You should correct this to read "Great Britain when it bombed the German city of Dresden in WWII."

The US was not all that involved in the firebombing of Dresden. As far is I know it was an entirely British mission. I also think your article needs a new title. I like the article, but your article lead me to believe that it was going to be some anti-Bush, aunties diatribe, rather than the well thought out piece it was. I don't agree with some of your assertions, but all in all I think you made some good points.

[armymarinedad]

I try to justify them myself many times, but it is difficult

Try applying the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. As for me if I wake up tomorrow and find I have decided to embrace radical Islam and become a terrorist, I want to be stopped by any means and with extreme prejudice.

[Condor51]

***The US was not all that involved in the firebombing of Dresden. As far is I know it was an entirely British mission.***

In the initial bombing raid of Dresden on 13 February 1945, the RAF used 773 Lancaster Bombers, during the nest two days the USAAF (US Army Air Force) followed up by using 527 bombers. So while the initial planning was by the Brits, 'we' were certainly involved.

The said part is that all the bombing of non military targets (cities) was all because of one off course plane that dropped a load on London during the dead of night.

And if Churchill wasn't always drunk and as such over reacted to the above 'accident', the following would likely have never occurred...

Victims of the Dresden bombings

FYI, Dresden was not defended by AA and as such was completely defenseless. But since it was done by the Victors, it wasn't a War Crime, or "Crime Against Humanity". (funny how those things happen).

[J. Neil Schulman]

In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Steven Spielberg's Munich Asks: "Is The 'War on Terrorism' a Real War?", Johnnyboy2000 wrote:
"'United States when it bombed the German city of Dresden in World War II.' You should correct this to read Great Britain when it bombed the German city of Dresden in WWII.' The US was not all that involved in the firebombing of Dresden. As far is I know it was an entirely British mission."

It was a combined RAF/USAF mission. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden

[okie01]

The US was not all that involved in the firebombing of Dresden. As far is I know it was an entirely British mission.

Dresden and Hamburg were both RAF targets...primarily. But the U.S. 8th Air Force participated, handling the daytime duties. The B-17s and B-24s didn't carry the bomb load that the Lancasters and Halifaxes carried. Nor did the 8th AF employ the RAF's incendiary + blockbuster mix.

Consequently, while the US wasn't the primary contributor to the fire storms of Dresden and Hamburg, we participated.

[Kozak]

Wrong. Dresden was bombed by Bomber Command at night and the 8th Air force by day.

As to Spielbergs movie, anything that purports a moral equivalence to terrorists murdering innocent athletes and vengeance against those terrorists is pure dreck.