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To: Neocon who wrote (133680)	5/20/2004 11:00:30 PM
From: h0db	Read Replies (1) of 281500

It was Dachau; US forces killed 520 German Waffen SS after they had been captured at Dachau on April 29,1945. humanitas-international.org The US unit responsible was engaged in hot combat with retreating German units on the day Dachau was liberated. Formal German surrender did not occur until May 8, 1945. It was also a world-wide total war, fought over six years, that saw entire cities destroyed by firebombing and nuclear weapons. If the US or any Western leader today ordered what we did back then to Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki, the would probably be viewed as war criminals. Different times, different technologies, different sensibilities and expectations. Punishing the US troops for violating the Geneva Convention at Dachau would have been like passing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

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