Christians, Prove Your God Is Good

[Thumpalumpacus]

Educate yourself before you speak. Here is a link showing what the official 'x' target was marking in operation "meeting house."
http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=217

The city center (urban area) was targeted meaning the civilian population was targeted, this was not a uniformed military target.

I did not say it was a military target.

There is a list of 14 targeted areas between March and August 1945, only 5 can be considered to be military targets. The rest were homes, and commerical areas (stores/shops)

Of course, you neglect to mention that Japanese industry was scattered in small workshops that were interspersed in the housing and business areas.

We break the will of the people by "burning them" according to Le May. Not soldiers but the old, the women and children. We turn the might of our military usage onto the civilian population in an effort to break the will of the people or to bomb them back to their futile era.

Of course. No one is denying that.

This is genocide.

No it is not. Genocide has the aim of exterminating a group or ethnicity. The mission of the XX Bomber Command was neither.

This genocide is what stopped the war. We fire bombed everything, then nuke them. After two A-bombs destroyed two (Untouched/purposely un bombed non military significant) cities we threatened to nuke every other previously Fire bombed city, starting with the emperial palace.

It wasn't genocide. Mass murder, perhaps.

We in essence destroyed just about every man woman and child who held to pre war ideals.

No, we didn't. 350,000 Japanese civilians lost their lives in WWII from all causes. 2,000,000 Japanese military personnel died in the war. As of October 1940, Japan had a population of over 73 million.

If you were to bother to look up the word genocide or even look past your God hating defination of the word you would find:

gen·o·cide
ˈjenəˌsīd/
noun
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

That emphasized clause right there indicates the purpose of a genocidal program. What the USAAF did over Japan doesn't match that purpose; hence, it was not genocide.

Here, I'll help you out. This is the legal definition of genocide:


http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp.../res/96(I)

This is the basis of my definition -- not "hating" your imaginary friend, which would certainly be a waste of time and beneath me to dignify your idiocy with my emotional investment.

The bombing campaign over Japan, while inhumane and perhaps criminal was not genocide, because it wasn't predicated on wiping out the Japanese as a people. As soon as they surrendered, we stopped bombing them. That should be your clue that it was not an act of genocide, but rather, an act of war.

Our actions against Japan and the others I have already mentioned a couple different times already shows that the U.S. is founded and maintained on this word.

America has certainly committed genocide. This wasn't it.