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2017-10-23 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russia likens US coalition bombing of Raqqa to WWII Dresden
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Posted by Fred 2017-10-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top
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#1 Russia likens US coalition bombing of Raqqa to WWII Dresden

I seriously doubt that.
Posted by gorb 2017-10-23 00:30||   2017-10-23 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Jealous Russkies.
Posted by Black Bart Omeasing1539 2017-10-23 01:48||   2017-10-23 01:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, the allies won WWII.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-23 02:33||   2017-10-23 02:33|| Front Page Top

#4 With A. Merkel in Germany Dresden is starting to look like Raqqa (prebombing) so this bombing is just practice
Posted by airandee  2017-10-23 06:27||   2017-10-23 06:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Looked at pre-war Dresden photos and pre-war Raqqa photos...........Nope, no comparison.
Posted by AlanC 2017-10-23 08:16||   2017-10-23 08:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Ever see pictures of Charleston after Sherman got finished with it?
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-10-23 08:25||   2017-10-23 08:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Well we aren't dropping incendiaries and creating firestorms... so I doubt it.
Posted by DarthVader 2017-10-23 09:56||   2017-10-23 09:56|| Front Page Top

#8 That's Tokyo, Darth
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-23 10:03||   2017-10-23 10:03|| Front Page Top

#9 
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2017-10-23 10:44||   2017-10-23 10:44|| Front Page Top

#10 We did that to most of the Japanese cities and in Germany.

Dresden got it with both bombs and incendiaries too.
Posted by DarthVader 2017-10-23 10:45||   2017-10-23 10:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Groovy.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-23 12:14||   2017-10-23 12:14|| Front Page Top

#12 P2k, that was Columbia, South Carolina that Sherman's troops burned.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2017-10-23 12:40||   2017-10-23 12:40|| Front Page Top

#13 I stand (or sit) corrected.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-10-23 13:52||   2017-10-23 13:52|| Front Page Top

#14 Sherman burned Atlanta.
Posted by Chris 2017-10-23 14:32||   2017-10-23 14:32|| Front Page Top

#15 They also burned Columbia. The sentiment at the time was it was the birthplace of the Rebellion and they wanted it destroyed. Sherman didn't order it but he didn't object, either.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2017-10-23 14:46||   2017-10-23 14:46|| Front Page Top

#16 Sherman's march through Georgia left a 50 mile wide trail of burning and looting. The soldiers took anything they could carry including the heirloom Revolutionary War uniform of a plantation owner. It was his scorched earth policy. He said that if the Union had lost the war he expected to be tried as a war criminal. After the war he did a lot to help Southerners , probably more than anyone else.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2017-10-23 14:56||   2017-10-23 14:56|| Front Page Top

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