Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: August 14, 1945

Ovvero terrorismo anglosassone e crimini di guerra.
Come disse McNamara, se avessimo perso la guerra, saremmo stati processati e 
impiccati per crimini contro l'umanita'.
Qua un generale yankee fa bombardare Tokio da 1000 aerei a guerra gia' 
finita.
On August 14, 1945, after the two atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan, 
and after Emperor Hirohito had agreed to surrender because "the enemy now 
possesses a new and terrible weapon with the power to destroy many innocent 
lives and do incalculable damage," General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold, to 
boost his already over-inflated ego (he was made a five-star general in 
1944), undertook a completely unnecessary act of terror from the skies over 
Japan that had never before been seen. In their 1953 book The Army Air 
Forces in World War II, Wesley F. Craven and James L. Cate state:
  Arnold wanted as big a finale as possible, hoping that USASTAF could hit 
the Tokyo area in a 1,000-plane mission: the Twentieth Air Force had put up 
853 B-29's and 79 fighters on 1 August, and Arnold thought the number could 
be rounded out by calling on Doolittle's Eighth Air Force. Spaatz still 
wanted to drop the third atom bomb on Tokyo but thought that battered city a 
poor target for conventional bombing; instead, he proposed to divide his 
forces between seven targets. Arnold was apologetic about the unfortunate 
mixup on the 11th and, accepting Spaatz' amendment, assured him that his 
orders had been "co-ordinated with my superiors all the way to the top." The 
teleconference ended with a fervid "Thank God" from Spaatz. Kennedy had the 
Okinawa strips tied up with other operations so that Doolittle was unable to 
send out his VHB's. From the Marianas, 449 B-29's went out for a daylight 
strike on the 14th, and that night, with top officers standing by at 
Washington and Guam for a last-minute cancellation, 372 more were airborne. 
Seven planes dispatched on special bombing missions by the 509th Group 
brought the number of B-20's to 828, and with 186 fighter escorts 
dispatched, USASTAF passed Arnold's goal with a total of 1,014 aircraft. 
There were no losses, and before the last B-29 returned President Truman 
announced the unconditional surrender of Japan.
This was the largest bombing raid in history. Yet, many timelines of World 
War II do not even list this event as having occurred.
But although this was the largest bombing raid, it was not the deadliest. In 
fact, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan were not even the deadliest. Because 
high-altitude precision bombing was viewed as not effective enough, the Army 
Air Force began using incendiary attacks against Japanese cities. After 
months of studies, planning, and several incendiary bombing test runs, Tokyo 
was firebombed on the night of March 9, 1945, by low-flying B-29's with 
increased bomb loads. Seventeen hundred tons of bombs were dropped in a 
densely populated area (an average of 103,000 people per square mile) of 
twelve square miles. The result was just what one would expect: as many as 
100,000 dead, over 40,000 wounded, over 1,000,000 made homeless, over 
267,000 buildings destroyed. The water boiled in some small canals because 
of the intense heat. This was the most destructive air attack in history. It 
killed more people than the dropping of an atomic bomb.
The Tokyo firebombing raid was followed by larger ones against Nagoya, 
Osaka, and Kobe, some of Japan's largest cities. Then Nagoya was hit again. 
All in all, 1,595 sorties had flown in 10 days, dropping over 9,300 toms of 
bombs. Japanese cities - large and small - were continually hit with 
conventional and incendiary bombs through the end of the war.
But the bombing of Japanese cities was not war, it was wholesale murder. 
How, then, does this act of terrorism continue to be defended almost 
sixty-five years later? Simple. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
In fact, nothing U.S. forces did to Japan during the war matters because of 
Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor, come tutti sanno, fu un attacco a installazioni militari
-- 
Dopo l'invasione del 1974, i nostri alleati Turki hanno:
Saccheggiato e distrutto circa 500 chiese cristiane a Cipro.
Importato una comunita' turka che si e' sostituita ai 200.000 greci 
sfollati.
Pulizia etnica all'interno della NATO 

 
E i 300 mila di Dresda?

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#_Pensa a quale costo l'US Army avrebbe dovuto far fronte per riportarsi le 
bombe a casa? <g>
G. 

 la cirrosi mi porti alla tomba.
#_Appunto!
Dopo le due autocisterne di Varechina che ti sei bevuto, che bisogno ci 
sarebbe d'altro?

 Basterbbe rievocare l'altissimo numero di morti americani nel Pacifico,
rievoca pure, imbecille...a me ne risultano 400.000 SU TUTTI I FRONTI