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HG, if you kept reading the Wikipedia entry, you read about the thousands of tons of explosive and incendiary bombs U.S. pilots dropped on a German city of no military significance. (Part of our role was to kill off the wounded whom the Brits had inadvertently left alive in the first wave of bombings.) To be sure, we were even more wanton in Japan, due in part, I'm sure, to racial considerations.
One of the biggest reasons I've come to sort of hate my country in recent years is the general indifference of the American public and leadership to the civilian deaths in Iraq for which we are (directly and indirectly) responsible. I sometimes wonder whether, and how, things would be different if Iraq was populated by white and/or Christian people.
