Saturday, August 20, 2005

Charles LeMay

I was reading an article on the neutron bomb today which mentioned a man named Curtis LeMay. I probably should have known who he was, considering that his fire bombing campaign was responsible for destroying my fathers house and most of Aomori during world war two. Anyway, I found a bio of him on Wikipedia and one particularly interesting quote:


"There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders."

Which I suppose is self evident when you look at the fact that his bombing missions "may have killed more than one million Japanese civilians". Hmm, who else targets civilians and claims that they are all enemy combatants?

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