The bombings most certainly saved hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides.
Sadly necessary.

Regards

“Chuck Pelto, you are a hackneyed idiot.” — Mike O’Malley

…Right….

Show me your Mensa membership ID number, buckie, and I’ll call you ‘bro’.

RE: [OT] Britain Today

“Consider it a good day for you. I ask you, is today’s UK what the British WW2 vets fought for?” — Mike O’Malley

That discussion was fielded by Roger L. Simon a couple of weeks ago. Sorry you missed it.

Care to get back ON-TOPIC?

TO: All
RE: Typical ‘Liberal’ Mentality

As has been noticed by so many others in various venues, Mike makes a good example of the typical ‘liberal’ approach to discussion. Changing the subject, prevarication, not answering questions and ad homs.

’nuff said.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[Prevaricator: A liar in the caterpillar state. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary]

Indeed, it is hard sometimes for any reactionary, knee-jerk “hoo-rah” Neocon dupe to learn anything, but at least you have.

Consider it a good day for you. I ask you, is today’s UK what the British WW2 vets fought for? What did Churchill achieve? He lost the Empire, and the English have already demographically lost England, and Europeans much of Europe.

Churchill created a climate that allowed Muslims to immigrate into the West. Some victory for us and the “english-speaking” world. Yeah keep on cheering. Neocons for some reason love to hear that Europe is going down, yet they cannot see that England is still more English than Texas is Texan. Texans are already a minority, GWB’s home state is in worse shape than England is. Duh!

Cheers!

….do you speak German?

Regards,

Chuck(le)
P.S. If not, thank history.

you wrote: “P.S. It was probably one of the best mistakes to happen to England.”

That’s a wildly improper statement, since it seems as if you are saying that the digression of the air war from military targets to civilian areas was a good thing for England and/or Germany?

That makes little sense to me.

Up to July 1940, not one single German bomb has fallen on British towns. Hitler had given orders that no British towns are to be bombed and, above all. bombing of London is completely forbidden and embargoed. Churchill knows this, because he’s reading the German code, he’s reading the German Air Force signals, which I can now read in the German files. Churchill is reading the signals and he knows that Hitler is not doing him the favor.

Hitler is still hoping that this madman in England will see reason or that he will be outvoted by his cabinet colleagues. So he’s not doing Churchill the favor of bombing any English towns. Churchil is frantic because he thinks he’s being outsmarted by Hitler. On July the 20th he sends for Sir Charles Portal, the Chief of Bomber Command. and he says to Sir Charles Portal, as we know from records from Command to the Air Ministry, “When is the earliest that you could launch a vicious air attack on Berlin?” Sir Charles Portal replies to Winston, “I’m afraid we can’t do it now, not until September because the nights aren’t long enough to fly from England to Berlin and back in the hours of darkness. September, perhaps, and in September we will have the first hundred of the new Sterling bombers …” But he also says, “I warn you, if you do that, the Germans will retaliate. At present they’re not bombing English targets, they’re not bombing civilian targets at all and you know why. And if you bomb Berlin, then Hitler will retaliate against English civilian targets.” And Churchill just twinkles when he gets this reply because he knows what he wants.

1) Yes, I graduated from high school.
2) I knew you could avoid a snarky ad hominem comment, that’s very typical of Neocons.
3) I’m glad you learned something about WW2, that isn’t widely known in the English speaking world, since the WW2 history we get in the English-speaking world is often produced by English or Jewish historians, and they certainly need to be watched for a lack of neutrality.

Regards.