Do as We Say...

"The term, 'war crimes', includes murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population before or during a war." The U.S. State Department to the British Ambassador in Washington, October 18, 1945 - the rub of course being that these two countries had already incinerated approximately a million women, children, refugees, the elderly, etc. in an "area bombing"  campaign (the Brits in Europe and the Americans in the Pacific theater) that quite literally had zero strategic value....Oh, and if you don't think that these fellows knew what they were doing, the official name for the Hamburg mission (which consisted of 9,000 TONS of bombs - most of them incendiary - and which left more than half of the city in rubble and created 45,000 corpses) was "Operation Gomorrah" (the goal clearly being to wipe the city from the map).