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Originally Posted by ATAG_Dutch
You really are just far too wilfully dense to grasp the fact that it wasn't.
'The Area Bombing Directive was a directive from the wartime British Government's Air Ministry to the Royal Air Force which ordered RAF bombers to attack the German industrial workforce and the morale of the German populace through bombing German cities and their civilian inhabitants.'
The 'Wartime British Government' was headed by Churchill. Do you get that bit yet?
Here's the link to your own favourite source (apart from the odd bonus dvd you have lying around).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_Bombing_Directive |
are we getting to the school playground levels again?
Harris was a strong defender and the advocate of the area bombing, and whilst the British War Cabinet had doubts about its application (if anything for the doubts on the efficiency), he is the key figure that made it possible, and he admitted it. His nickname "butcher", which was given by his beloved airmen, wasn't just a random one.
So yes, you vouch for a man who deliberately ordered his aircrews to commit a war crime, a crime that according to your self-righteous double standards was acceptable either because
they started it or because
if we do it it's ok..well done there..
As for my "favourite source", it's just for the sake of practicality.. can I invite you to pay a visit to the National Archives website and look for War Cabinet discussions on area bombing? You'll see how controversial the thing was..