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To: zonder who wrote (55165)	10/28/2002 2:07:09 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Correct. That is exactly what I meant. Zonder... Japanese civilians were producing war goods in their very houses. 7. LeMay's Justification In Europe the American bomber command argued that its daylight precision bombing raids should not be equated with the "terror bombing" of civilian populations. General LeMay recognized that his incendiary raids were open to exactly this criticism. His response was twofold. First, the targets were industrial, and the Japanese not the Americans were responsible for decentralizing their war production in "cottage industry" fashion in residential areas throughout the country. Secondly, he claimed that "It's more immoral to use less force than to use more." He explained what he meant by citing the story of "a stupid man who was not basically cruel-just well - meaning" who cut off his dog's tail an inch at a time "so that it wouldn't hurt so much." The Japanese war machine needed to be "amputated" all at once, and the B - 29s would do the job. Civilian were not targeted solely because they were civilians. They were targeted because they were producing war goods in their houses. Hawk

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