Ferocious Aardvark wrote:Indeed, but why was he bombing Germany? There's a big difference in that neither he nor the English were bent on invading the place. We didn't start it, and given available defences I'm not sure what else you'd expect an RAF man to do.

sally cinnamon wrote:I presume he would understand it if a German murdered him now, given the terrible death toll caused in the British firebombing of Dresden, the only good Briton is a dead one.

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:Indeed, but why was he bombing Germany? There's a big difference in that neither he nor the English were bent on invading the place. We didn't start it, and given available defences I'm not sure what else you'd expect an RAF man to do.

Chief Stinkwort wrote::CLAP:

Spot on.
Britain could have bombed the railway lines that led to the Nazi death camps and saved millions of lives.
It chose to unleash a wave of bombing terror on civilians instead.

I can understand Moore's bitterness, but this is not an excuse for his Little England bigotry, which ATEOTD is merely a mirror image of some of the worst nationalistic ravings of the Nazis themselves. Moore's comments are also an insult to hundreds of thousands of Germans who opposed Hitler and paid for that with their lives.

If his fiancee had been killed by a greengrocer in 1940 would he now be waging war on employees of Tesco and Asda?

Chris28 wrote:He's entitled to his view, as I am mine. Difference is I don't get a national newspaper publishing mine

cod'ead wrote:The rise on those pants is greater than most people's inside leg

Stand-Offish wrote:Are you trying to say you're a nobody?

Another difference is that he has given a view on this subject, and you haven't.