NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD LIBERAL FOOL
hmmmm
it appears rapid onset alzheimers has set in for old kurt
I dunno why they keep saying “At least Hitler was elected”. Hitler wasn’t elected to NOTHING. In ‘33 he ran against Hindenburg for President of Germany and had his head handed to him - lost by like 2 to 1.
But Hindenburg’s party wasn’t able to form a majority so they went casting about for a minority party to form a coalition government. The National Socialists weren’t as bad as the Communists or Social Democrats - they thought - so they offered to appoint Hitler Chancellorship of the German Parliament as an enticement. Later the National Socialists won a majority and rammed through laws to make Hitler Fuhrer for life. Hitler never ran for office again after that humiliating defeat.
In 2000 Bush was elected according to the rules of the election and there’s never been a legal recount that says otherwise. The lefties just can’t STAND that they lost fair and square despite all the dirty tricks they played.
Didn’t he coin the phrase ”I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy”? Perhaps he has had a little too much of both…
Ask the Korean and Chinese about psychological scars from Jap Warlords.
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The Dresden raid was massive as well as massively controversial after the war. The city had little military value and refugees from other bombed cities had streamed there hoping for safety. There’s some evidence that the British pushed for the attack as part of a “scorched earth” policy against Germany; they didn’t want the Germans rising up as a regional power again for generations.
Because of how they were planned the atomic bombs used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren’t as destructive as they could have been; the US wanted to minimize contamination so they opted for air bursts. In fact at first the Japanese claimed not to be all that impressed; compared to the firebombing of Tokyo the damage was fairly localized. Took awhile for it to sink in that a single plane with a single atomic bomb could be as devastating as fleets of bombers using conventional incendiaries and explosives.
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Dresden was a major rail hub for the south of europe. The Germans used it to rapidly move men and arms to the east. It was spared for most of the war for the reasons you point out, and for its cultural importance, but as the end neared, the troops moving back from Italy and unlolested southern France were a threat to the southern flanks of the Russian advance. To prevent the need for the Russians to slow their westward movement by having to detail a large southern flanking guard, Dresden was destroyed.
Kurt never understood the need, and, having been in the city and gotten to know the people, he understandably had some sympathetic feelings for them. But then his writings have always been cynical, inward, desultory and hopeless.
Too bad that he, as have so many others, has fallen for the lies and gone off the rails over Bush.
unmolested, sheesh! COFFEE!