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tptacek on March 7, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rand Paul filibustering over drones

What is the oversight that was used when the administration decided to bomb Dresden, or to firebomb Tokyo? How does it differ from the oversight employed against "organizations involved in the attacks on 9/11"?

How many more innocent people were killed in those attacks than will ever be killed by drones? Have you ever watched "Fog Of War"? Tokyo was made of wood and paper.

mpyne on March 7, 2013 [–]

More Japanese died in Tokyo from one night of firebombing attacks in March 1945 than died in either Dresden, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki.

It sadly really goes to show how right Stalin was when he made his jest about tragedies and statistics.

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