Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Originally Posted by hasbeen1945
I had to laugh at Paul and some here on killing civilians. Paul said it was against the Constitution. I don't guess we had that during WW 2. Didn't apply to Japan and Germany. Those bombs didn't know the difference. Hasbeen
Not even close to what he said. He said the deliberate targeting of civilians was a violation of international treaties on war. The fact that both Churchill and FDR did that during WWII doesn't make that less the case. They were both war criminals, along with Truman. Ike, too. In fact all sides of WWII were replete with war criminals of the highest order. That doesn't justify future war crimes.


How do you go about distinguishing who is a "combatant" & who isn't? It's pretty hard to find & define an enemy when the enemy is a radical ideology. Judging from video of middle east cities in the aftermath of 9/11, it seems pretty clear to me who the enemy is...