LibertyLemming
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It was actually two fell swoops, and neither of them killed as many people as the fire bombing of Dresden. But then that doesn't play into your liberal/racist narrative, does it?
Uh, I try not to justify killing innocent people by saying others did it before/more often/etc.
Besides, you are way the fuck off:
The Bombing of Dresden was an attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the Second World War. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city.[1] The resulting firestorm destroyed fifteen square miles (39 square kilometres) of the city centre. At least 22,000, at most 25,000 people were killed.
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Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day.
In a US estimate of the total immediate and short term cause of death, 15–20% died from radiation sickness, 20–30% from burns, and 50–60% from other injuries, compounded by illness. In both cities, most of the dead were civilians.
This is where you quit replying to this thread.
There will never be a definitive answer on the total deaths from either bombing. In the case of Dresden, many say the city was full of refugees from the East fleeing the Red Army. The figure ranges from 35,000 to 100,000. The anonymous refugees will always make the total number unknown. Hiroshima has a figure of about 45,000 on the first day of attack and some 15-20,000 or more during the next four months from radiation burns.
However, you conveniently sidestep the more relevant issue, which is why you are so incensed about the deaths of Japanese civilians in WW2, but don't give a damn about German (or other European) deaths. I don't suppose you care about Chinese deaths, either, because they were caused by the poor Japanese instead of the evil Americans.
Of course I care about them. The problem is this isn't a message board for Chinese/Japanese/Etc's politics and I am not a citizen of those nations with a vote. This is a place to discuss US Policy and that is what I was doing. I can post pictures if you'd like of me volunteering time with victims of UXOs in Cambodia and Laos and Vietnam. I decry all murder of innocent people and I am usually against all wars as they are almost always started by some form of greed. I didn't sidestep anything, I just countered his retarded comment that more people died in Dresden, which remains a retarded argument even with your highly inflated numbers.