Terrorist (namely muslim) cowards

[98tls]

Hahahahahahaha your full of shit. I grew up in Liverpool in the 60's and I still remember all the bombed out houses, there were that many that the goverment had to build prefabricated houses, in order to put a roof over the heads of famillys that came out of the bomb shelters to find that the nazi bombers had leveled whole estates of houses. Wanker get your facts right before you post crap.

Posting crapno doubt your feeling a tad pissed off considering the topic but wake up,no matter what the reasons the fact is that to compare the said events borders on madness.Mind you all things considered i understand.Nothing and i mean nothing could ever been worse than whatever happened to a pom.

[98tls]

What a load of shit, have you stopped to think that the reason for this might just be because of Britain's air defence, and that if it wasn't for the Spitfires and Hurricanes Adolph would have been showing different statistics.

I thought they stooped printing those Commando comics years ago,go figure.Quite collectible the old ones.

[Scouse]

I thought they stooped printing those Commando comics years ago,go figure.Quite collectible the old ones.

Visit Liverpool in the 60's did we? Get to see the destruction that was still left over from a war 18 years before did we?

[Swoop]

and yet the brits did deliberately target Dresden ......

Quite so.
Dresden was a choke point for troops and munitions that were retreating from the Russian Holiday Tour.
All manner of war-fighting materials were being herded back to defend Berlin and a lot of refugees were around Dresden as well.
Couple that with only a few targets remaining for the entire RAF and USAAF bomber force...
Being a railway "hub" and also a city that had not been targeted to any degree so far in the war had made it a prime target.
Area bombing was the only "tool" in the bombers arsenal. If only laser-guided munitions were available then...

[98tls]

Visit Liverpool in the 60's did we?

No actually my familys from Freiburg.If indeed you hail from said place in the 60s it seems you havent learnt much since.Not intended personally just a general observation.

[Winston001]

And the Indian Govt is trying deflect attention from its own incompetence (apparently they had a warning from the US that something was going to happen) by trying to implicate the Pakistani Govt.

Oscar, have you been to India? It is a vast country, not only in size but in population. They have an active Army and armed police force but trust me, all the warnings in the world (unless they named time and place) would be a candle in the wind. India is just so crowded and busy that it's impossible to imagine any security working.

Besides, how do you notice 10 men sailing into a busy harbour in a local fishing boat? You could do it in Wellington and murder half our MPs if Parliament was in session - and Wellington is like an empty village compared to Bombay.

This has negative ramifications if the Pakistanis withdraw Troops from the Afghan border (where they're operating against Taliban) to the Indian Border (as will inevitably happen if the Indians keep talking tough).

Easy. Pakistan can allow Coalition forces interdiction across the Afghan border while they are busy over in Kashmir. Besides the Kashmir pot is boiling every day with shots fired, soldiers killed and captured.

[wbks]

i'm damned sure that neither of us believe the nazis were ...?

Huh? .........

[mstriumph]

Matters not really but its been well documented that the first supposed bombing of civilians in London was a German crew that got lost trying to find there intended target and just let them go before turning for home.

i said that already
nobody listened then, either.

[Scouse]

No actually my familys from Freiburg.

Oh Freiburg, good then because my father would have been napalming your relatives from the reletive comfort of his Churchill tank crocodile unit.

[mstriumph]

...........Nothing and i mean nothing could ever been worse than whatever happened to a pom.

hey ... SOME of us are able to sustain a reasonable debate without whinging!!

[mstriumph]

Visit Liverpool in the 60's did we? Get to see the destruction that was still left over from a war 18 years before did we?

actually yes .... no-one is saying it didn't HAPPEN - just that it's not particularly relevant at this stage of the current conversation?

[mstriumph]

Oh Freiburg, good then because my father would have been napalming your relatives from the reletive comfort of his Churchill tank crocodile unit.

if this is gonna turn into one of those "my daddy is bigger than your daddy" arguments ....


... just an observation, Scouse - there's nothing here worth taking personally or getting het up about ....... bad enough our forebears FOUGHT the war without our re-fighting it now, online?

[SixPackBack]

So no one has brought up the unholy bigness of 6 million Jews being exterminated??...........Dresden and London pale in comparison.

[Winston001]

What it NEEDED was for the brits not to have gone drawing arbitary lines on other people's maps in the first place.....

I really like your posts Mstriumph so please don't think I'm picking on you.

Lines on maps. Don't blame the British, in fact don't blame anyone. Borders have been drawn since pre-history. Originally they defined tribal areas but after the agricultural revolution 11,000 years ago, when villages, then cities arose, they were drawn by conquest - defendable areas of influence and mutual protection.

What you refer to is the post-colonial age when artificial states like Transjordan were created. You'd have to go back to the Ottoman Empire and probably to Alexander the Great to find the original nations.

What about the Basques? They don't like the Spanish lines around them. Quebec is none too keen either. Trans-Dniester doesn't like Moldova and tries to operate as a separate country. Somaliland, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia and Abkhazia are all unrecognised countries which reject the lines around them. You'll recall the recent small war over South Ossetia between Georgia (which reckons SO is within its borders) and Russia.

My purpose is simply to point out that the British and the USA are not the big baddies in the world - either now, or in the past. Mistakes are made, many borders are appallingly drawn but its the case world-wide. I left Africa alone because that would fill a page by itself.

[98tls]

So no one has brought up the unholy bigness of 6 million Jews being exterminated??...........Dresden and London pale in comparison.

Twas actually 8 millon give or take,that to pales when you consider the 15 millon russians a few years prior.