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Tobias,
Nowhere at any time have I said that ANY perpetrators were excusable. And while you're on my Johnson, I stated that some of the atrocities committed by the Allies against POW's were understandable, but I did NOT say excusable. The most flagrant breaches were committed by the Central Powers upon their entry into Belgium, and the sinking of the hospital ships. As far as Cally and My Lai, I can understand why he did it, but it still doesn't make what he did right. You keep wanting to "lawyer" this down to the nth degree. No WAR Crime is right, but the winners sometimes get away with what the losers pay for. But I guess in your eyes the Allied shootings of POW's equates to the massacre of unarmed civilian non-combattants. To me, when you join and put on a uniform and go off to fight ... you pay your money and take your chances. If you are captured and get snuffed while a POW, that's the chance you took when you went off to fight. But for civilians to get massacred ... a whole different ballgame. For clearly identified hospital ships being sunk, another matter all together. I know if I was being shot at and watching my buddies die, I sure wouldn't have a whole lot of warm fuzzy feelings towards any enemies that were captured.
VBR,
Jim
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