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PD, that was very interesting about the Iraqi Christians. I knew nothing about it. Maybe if most Iraqis were Christians, or if they were white, Americans would care more about them. Or maybe not.
Anonymous (snappy handle by the way), no one here has said that Japan and Germany, as nations, were "victims" of the U.S. and Britain. I (and others) have merely pointed out that Americans have shown an inclination in the past to regard the intentional killing of civilians as appropriate under some circumstances. You, in defending the firebombing of Japanese and German civilians, then illustrated the point. No one believes that the Anglo-American bombing campaigns were the worst thing that happened in WW2. Put away the straw man.
On a personal note, I visited Dresden some years back, and was astonished at how much of it was still rubble. It saddened me to look at pictures of how beautiful it was before the war, and to read about how much the civilians suffered. Perhaps reasonable minds can differ on this, but I didn't think they "deserved it," even after visiting Auschwitz on the same trip.
