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Old 12-13-2009, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Wutz View Post
With that kind of view a medic, ambulance or hospital, hospital ship, is a person, building or vehicle with a target painted on? People who think that way then also don´t mind randomly bumping off civilians, don´t matter they are enemy.....so why where people upset about Nanking, or the way POWs where threated by the Japanese??
Or the cases where downed allied aircrew where lynched in Germany. On your line of thinking all fair targets as they are enemy.

I don´t like that way of thinking at all.

You're taking it WAY out of context

USAAF pilots shot Luftwaffe pilots in their 'chutes. Fact. The Luftwaffe also did this to USAAF aircrew, but even when each side didn't do it, there was an ulterior motive: interrogation of captured aircrew

The USS Wahoo gunned down Japanese troops in the Pacific after it sank their ship, and the captain was commended- those troops didn't get to kill any Americans

Those examples are a FAR cry from dropping a stick of bombs on a Red Cross Hospital becasue "its full of the enemy". The trouble here is that some folks don't understand that while there is a logical conclusion to some points, logic doesn't HAVE to go all the way to the conclusion
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