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Bush Says U.S. Should Have Bombed WWII Death Camp
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| Friday, January 11, 2008
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Posted on 01/11/2008 5:54:03 AM PST by SolidWood
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To: goodwithagun
I always tell my students this when I teach the Holocaust and WWIII hope you also tell them how virtually impossible it would have been for B-17's to bomb a railroad line, and just for class discussion ask how many American pilots and crewmen should die in the effort.
To: metmom
However, I dont see why they wouldnt have gone after the rail lines. Cutting off Germanys main transport system should have gone a long way to ending the war earlier.German's transportation system was attacked repeatedly by the bombing of urban railyards and concentrations of infrastructure that might have been vulnerable to carpet bombing. Consider that even in the VN War we spent countless missions trying to hit a rail bridge in the North and finally succeeded only when the first generation of "smart bombs" came on line in the early 70's.
To: SolidWood
Bush didn’t happen to ask Jordon to return their land to “Palestine” did he?
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posted on
01/11/2008 5:24:06 PM PST
by
airborne
(Proud to be a conservative! Proud to support Duncan Hunter for President!)
To: mfnorman
“i dont think the allied powers were even aware of their exixtence until they marched up to the gates to liberate them.”
Unfortunately, not true. Maybe the GI’s themselves, but the President and War Department certainly knew. They were afraid that the effort would prevent a decisive victory against the NAZIs, or perhaps even allow them time to spring one of the many surprises they were working on, like usable jet fighters, or A-bombs.
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posted on
01/11/2008 6:42:10 PM PST
by
Old Student
(We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
To: SolidWood
However this is contradicted by the US support for the “palestinian” islamofascists.
Contradicted as well by his actions regarding Kosovo-—recognizing an Islamic state and rewarding islamofascists who brutally murdered thousands of Serb allies in WWII.
I confess—I do not understand his rationale for completing the evil started by Clinton and NATO.
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posted on
01/11/2008 7:37:42 PM PST
by
eleni121
(+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
To: SolidWood
But only with the approval of the Congress...
:o)
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posted on
01/11/2008 7:41:30 PM PST
by
traumer
To: hinckley buzzard
Consider that even in the VN War we spent countless missions trying to hit a rail bridge in the North and finally succeeded only when the first generation of "smart bombs" came on line in the early 70's. Wasn't that the rail bridge where the pilots were restricted to using the most impractical approach route? I vaguely remember reading an account by one of the pilots about that.
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posted on
01/11/2008 9:14:46 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
To: SJackson; Milwaukee_Guy
These were death camps, the inmates weren't expected to survive. The arguement is that by bombing the camps, some might have escaped, and that by bombing the rails, the trains would have been stopped, leaving the Germans with the less desireable option of doing the killing in a less efficient, more public manner. It's an interesting historical arguement, but pure speculation, and I don't think conclusions can be drawn from either decision.
They weren't all death camps. Aushwitz was a comlex of many camps. Only Birkenau was an off-the-train gassing camp. The others had untermenchen divided between those who could work and those who could not. The inform, old, children etc were killed immediately.
For most of the rest it was a work-till-you-die camp. Starvation diets, limited sanitation, rags for clothing, and brutality and beatings ensure that most did die. A few who had skills useful to the Nazi war effort were housed in special factories leading to lower mortality rates.
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posted on
01/11/2008 9:21:51 PM PST
by
rmlew
(Huckabee flip flops so much it makes Romney cringe)
To: hinckley buzzard
Who peed in your Cheerios?
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posted on
01/12/2008 10:26:04 AM PST
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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