Yesterday was an anniversary worth remembering. It was the day that Allies firebombed the civilian city of Dresden, Germany at the close of World War 2. It involved the British and the Americans, and it was terror bombing: pure and simple.
Some say that they did it primarily to put on a show for the Russians, and the same is said for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the Japanese had already agreed to surrender BEFORE we dropped the nuclear bombs.
And although there is controversy about how many people actually died at Dresden, there is no question that such a military campaign TODAY would be viewed as a war crime, and not just a war crime, but an atrocity of the worst magnitude.
After the British were done, the Americans came in with low-flying planes and began shooting at people with machine guns, and I mean indiscriminately: men, women, and children; a strafe attack.
This graphic was done by political artist David Dees.
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