Posted on 01/11/2008 10:05:46 AM PST by starlifter
Actually, we had ample intelligence and evidence, including photographs smuggled out by escapees, in early 1944.
We knew what was going on in the camps.
They knew they were concentration camps and there was plenty of intel that the camps were death camps. Many people thought the rumors were grossly exaggerated.
It didn’t become real until our soldiers got to the camps and saw what had happened.
I think Bush should stop arming the Palestinians who want to start their own little Auschwitz on the Mediterranean.”
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Yes, but why assisting in the dismemberment of Israel, in order to create a terrorist state next door? His Palestine policy is an odd departure from the way he deals with Iraq/Afghanistan Al-Qaeda. Fatah is no friend.
My understanding is that most proponents of bombing the camps argue for destroying the rail lines to the camps. Now that still leaves the issues of precision, and it wouldn’t take long to lay new track. Furthermore, those already in route might well have died or been killed if they couldn’t get through.
Bottom line, the hindsight should be left alone in this case.
Here Here!
And stop referring to Jerusalem and the West Bank as occuppied territories, stop pushing for a Palestinian state which will be nothing more than a staging ground for raiding Israel, and stop pushing for a Palestinian right-of-return.
I hope the Presdient took this all in and realized that no Israeli leader is going to allow a Second Holocaust to occur.
There’s been debate about this topic for decades and it’s always easy to make lofty moral judgements after the fact. The Nazis were so insanely determined to exterminate the Jews that I don’t think one life would have been saved had Auschwitz been flattened. The Jews would have died in sealed boxcars or else been murdered elsewhere.
The cat should of married its kindergarten sweetheart!
Bush is terrible with words. He should have said that WWII is the perfect example of how pre-emption and eliminating Hitler could have saved millions and millions of lives.
Same is true today with Iran.
Oh man, the Opposition is going to have a field day with this one....
Bombing then was good for +/- five miles. Worse at night.
Nazi’s could kill anywhere.
‘I understood before that we were not aware of what was going on until our forces stumbled upon them. How could we have bombed what we did not know existed?”
The soldiers didn’t know but our leadership did. There were reports of what was happening by people who escaped and the underground. The decision was made to focus elsewhere as the best way to end the war.
We destroyed tens of thousands of miles of rails. Germans just fixed them. They’d tell everyone out and start walking.
After Bush performs his “moral calculus” regarding Israel and palestine, he throws a backhanded compliment to Israel “he would have bombed Auschwitz” Like that is going to make things better. As Bush sells out Israel.
What happened to George Bush?
And 70 years from now the grandaughter of Chelsea Clinton the first woman president is saying the same thing about the nuclear processing plants in Iran that allowed over 1000 simultaneous small nuclear devices to be detonated in the US and knocked us lower than a third world nation for over 10 years.
Ah, to live, disarmed in a total, socialist state, democratic or otherwise. People are integers, resources, property as everything else, of the state.
This is why, every and any citizen that wants a military weapon, or weapons should have them. I don’t care how many high school kids get killed every year.
Nothing kills, steals, murders like humans in service of the state.
The only places in WWII where bombing was really effective against railroads was in Italy and France where the damage was done by fighter bombers, Typhoons and P47s mostly. The reason it worked then is because the attacks could be repeated day after day so about the time the line was fixed here came the fighter bombers again.
Another problem with hitting rail lines with level bombers in WWII was the the targeters tended to go after bridges and marshaling yards where repair supplies where stored nearby, instead of out in the middle of nowhere where the Germans would have to spend a day or two transporting repair crews and supplies before they could even go to work on the damage. When you have as little chance as we did then of hitting a rail line I guess they had to hope to make up for the inaccuracy with collateral damage.
The best examples of war against railroads is the US civil war. The Union never caught N. B. Forrest and the Confederacy never stopped W. T. Sherman’s Bummers but both sides got so good at repairing the damage that by the end of the civil war the strategic benefits railroad wrecking were much reduced.
I suspect the ever efficient Germans in WWII would have developed the skill pretty quickly - we might have seen prisoners from the camps hauled out to make repairs, then sent back to be executed or killed on the spot, the deaths blamed on the allies.
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