Posted on 04/11/2017 1:02:29 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
So those babies gasping for air were uniformed enemy combatants? Your point is not a good one.
Maybe Spicer meant that Hitler gassing the Jews, etc. was just for efficiency and cost effectiveness. Not for actual combat between opposing armies?
I don’t know...
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I lot of Freepers with TDS jumped on the times band wagon.
Hitler was a bad guy.
Talk about stating the obvious. We can call Hitler many things. Fanatic. Megalomaniac. Warmonger. War criminal. Mass murderer. No one fits the bill like the Führer.
And yet, there was one rather obvious crime that this world-class criminal refused to commit. And I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out why. My students ask me the question every single semester, and after 25 years of college teaching, I have to confess that still don’t have a really satisfactory answer.
Why didn’t Hitler use poison gas in World War II?
He certainly did everything else. Unprovoked aggression (multiple counts). Terror towards civilian populations in occupied areas. And the greatest mass murder of all time, the “Judeocide” that most people refer to as the Holocaust.
But he didn’t drop poison gas on civilian populations during bombing raids by the Luftwaffe. He didn’t even use it tactically against enemy troop concentrations. The conundrum becomes even tougher to explain when we remember that this is a man who himself fought in a war that featured the liberal use of poison gas. Chlorine, mustard, phosgene: World War I saw them all used in abundance, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers on all sides died a horrible choking death, or spent the next twenty years of their lives in the most painful suffering imaginable. World War II, however, a war that dwarfed the previous one in virtually every category of cruelty, almost completely eschewed this particular variety of horror. It remains a puzzle.
Never, EVER use the “H” word.
Fake news again. Everyone present knew what he meant from the context. He even took the opportunity when asked about it at the time to be more specific.
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To say that Assad is worse than Hitler is absurd. Using these weapons on millions of innocent Jews and others is to me worse than using them on battlefield. Of course, both are bad.
Yep. You nailed it. In addition to making a ridiculously stupid statement about Nazi's not using gas the larger underlying point Spicer was trying to make was also a fail. As you say Assad is JV compared to Hitler.
Hey -- no one is perfect and Spicer had a bad day. He is a great communications director but just botched this one.
Wow. I didn’t realize that poison gas, though often used in WWI was not (for battlefield purposes) in iWWII. However I suspect the Jews would disagreee about “any use”.
“In 1945 Hitler was suicidal, surrounded and yet didn’t stoop to the level of using chemical attacks.”
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I believe Hitler may have had a personal aversion to them as battlefield weapons, having been mustard-gassed himself in his younger days.
“Technically, Spicer is correct.”
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Yup, but still a facepalm-worthy answer.
Self-inflicted wound by Spicer, who is NOT furthering Trump's agenda.
You were correct. Chemical weapons were used during World War II. The Nips used them against the Chinese. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-warns-japanese-against-using-poison-gas
And of course, hundreds were injured and at least 86 killed by American poison gas in the ETO when an ammo supply ship blew up. (They didn’t bother to tally the civilian casualties.)
Of course they are going to make mistakes. It’s difficult to convince the American people that this is in their interest when they have NO INTEREST.
Spicer was talking on the battlegrounds, NY SLIMES.
Even you Israel haters at Punch’s rag know Hitler used gas at the concentration camps.
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