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| 140. I hated Japs and Nazis at that time! |
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As a child, of 8 years to 12 years, during the WW2 period, I detested the Germans and Japanese and wanted them destroyed. It took many years to adjust to a more reasonable thought of those people.
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| -If you'd had the opportunity to kill Hitler back in the '40s, would you have done it? |
Bake |
Oct-20-11 06:13 PM |
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Yup. |
The Velveteen Ocelot |
Oct-20-11 06:15 PM |
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Yes |
Ohio Joe |
Oct-20-11 06:15 PM |
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You go back far enough and just start paying a lot of money for his paintings. |
Ian David |
Oct-20-11 06:16 PM |
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the problem is, there was a lot of shit bubbling up in German society then |
Warren DeMontague |
Oct-20-11 07:15 PM |
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In other words, someone else might have become Hitler. Maybe El Guapo would have been Hitler. n/t |
Ian David |
Oct-20-11 09:32 PM |
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You mean the villain from the movie "The Three Amigos"? |
Warren DeMontague |
Oct-21-11 03:39 AM |
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Si. n/t |
Ian David |
Oct-21-11 06:46 AM |
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That is the essential problem. You might kill Hitler, then find Himmler in the top seat. |
TheWraith |
Oct-21-11 03:35 PM |
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No |
zappaman |
Oct-20-11 06:17 PM |
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Lol! |
whatchamacallit |
Oct-20-11 06:30 PM |
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Don't forget he was a vegan. |
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin |
Oct-20-11 11:08 PM |
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Should we have a vote... |
pinboy3niner |
Oct-20-11 11:17 PM |
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Deleted message |
Name removed |
Oct-20-11 06:22 PM |
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On one condition... |
Wait Wut |
Oct-20-11 06:26 PM |
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That makes you |
Kaleko |
Oct-20-11 08:04 PM |
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Bummer |
Wait Wut |
Oct-21-11 11:43 AM |
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A clinical psychologist would have to classify you as a psychopath and/or sociopath, |
Kaleko |
Oct-21-11 02:22 PM |
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Where did you get your degree? |
Wait Wut |
Oct-21-11 02:35 PM |
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Give me a break. |
EOTE |
Oct-21-11 02:38 PM |
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You're pretty sure, eh? |
Kaleko |
Oct-21-11 03:13 PM |
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Yes, you're damned right. |
EOTE |
Oct-21-11 03:17 PM |
#129 |
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Wanting to torture any sentient being at all - |
Kaleko |
Oct-21-11 03:36 PM |
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If that's the case, then the majority of people have such an affliction. |
EOTE |
Oct-21-11 03:49 PM |
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"Some people are worthy of torture." |
Kaleko |
Oct-21-11 04:33 PM |
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Either you hold yourself to some kind of moral standard |
sibelian |
Oct-21-11 03:17 PM |
#130 |
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Hitler would have had the very same 'leftists' |
Ikonoklast |
Oct-20-11 06:27 PM |
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+1000 |
zappaman |
Oct-20-11 06:29 PM |
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"leftists" |
whatchamacallit |
Oct-20-11 06:31 PM |
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People on the Intrawebs can pretend to be anything. |
Ikonoklast |
Oct-20-11 06:51 PM |
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So only leftists are 'wringing their hands?' Nice red baiting n/t |
leftstreet |
Oct-20-11 06:43 PM |
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No. By the 1940's Hitler had already long before killed or purged all |
Zorra |
Oct-20-11 09:17 PM |
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I would've loved to go back and give Prescot Bush's dad a kick in the sack. |
NightWatcher |
Oct-20-11 06:29 PM |
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plus a billion |
elehhhhna |
Oct-20-11 06:32 PM |
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I'd get in line for that, too! |
Bake |
Oct-20-11 06:33 PM |
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+1 |
AngryOldDem |
Oct-21-11 08:25 AM |
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Don't you mean "Three birds, two stones"? |
trotsky |
Oct-21-11 08:29 AM |
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In the 1940s? Absolutely. Easy choice. Let's make it a little trickier... |
Abin Sur |
Oct-20-11 06:29 PM |
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actually |
zappaman |
Oct-20-11 06:31 PM |
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no. he's a child! |
elehhhhna |
Oct-20-11 06:34 PM |
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Knowing what we know now? Sure. I'd strangle the little fucker. |
Bake |
Oct-20-11 06:35 PM |
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I would give him an LSD laced chocolate bar. It would have changed him for the better.... |
RagAss |
Oct-20-11 06:37 PM |
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Without a moments hesitation |
Ohio Joe |
Oct-20-11 06:46 PM |
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let's try another imagination game... live capture of Hitler in 1945 |
0rganism |
Oct-20-11 06:58 PM |
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I imagine that Stalin would have *loved* to capture Hitler. |
Abin Sur |
Oct-20-11 07:08 PM |
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sure, but let's posit Stalin will send Hitler to Nuremberg for trial |
0rganism |
Oct-20-11 08:38 PM |
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I kill him personally, then. |
Abin Sur |
Oct-20-11 09:06 PM |
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Killing the 6 year old Hitler would have meant nothing. |
former9thward |
Oct-20-11 07:08 PM |
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I don't think The Holocaust was historically inevitable without Hitler. |
Abin Sur |
Oct-20-11 07:17 PM |
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No they wouldn't. The German ire against Jews was there before Hitler. Hitler bought into |
Exilednight |
Oct-21-11 05:36 AM |
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I disagree |
Bragi |
Oct-21-11 02:55 PM |
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No, I'd put him in a different family |
Ter |
Oct-21-11 03:29 PM |
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Bake...you know the truth..You are doing hyperbole... Ghadaffi was NO Hitler.. |
KoKo |
Oct-20-11 06:33 PM |
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I'm not comparing Qaddafi to Hitler. |
Bake |
Oct-20-11 06:39 PM |
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Knowing of his evil designs, YES! Gladly! |
CTyankee |
Oct-20-11 06:38 PM |
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I enjoy the fact that he committed suicide. |
AngkorWot |
Oct-20-11 06:40 PM |
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So we're pretty much agreed that Hitler deserved killing. |
Bake |
Oct-20-11 06:41 PM |
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Gaddafi was reported killed by his bodyguard -- presumably on instructions if captured? |
defendandprotect |
Oct-20-11 06:42 PM |
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Hitler was killed when a Klieg light fell on him at Area 51 |
Warren DeMontague |
Oct-20-11 06:45 PM |
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No, he wasn't |
zappaman |
Oct-20-11 07:01 PM |
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How long ago did it stop bothering you |
dbt |
Oct-20-11 08:06 PM |
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Should have been sooner.....but he got his assassins. |
Historic NY |
Oct-20-11 06:43 PM |
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Since time travel is not in the books |
nadinbrzezinski |
Oct-20-11 06:45 PM |
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Gaddafi was *executed*, not *assasinated* -- I think that's important |
0rganism |
Oct-20-11 06:48 PM |
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I quite agree with the Nuremberg scenario! I'd like to have seen him hung. |
Bake |
Oct-20-11 07:01 PM |
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everyone dies eventually, but how we get there matters |
0rganism |
Oct-20-11 08:19 PM |
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So I suppose you were against all of the regicide over the centuries? |
joshcryer |
Oct-20-11 07:07 PM |
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all of it? i don't know about that, but some of it, yes |
0rganism |
Oct-20-11 08:13 PM |
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I'm just saying, it was pretty much an expected outcome. |
joshcryer |
Oct-20-11 08:25 PM |
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Right -- expected, but suboptimal |
0rganism |
Oct-20-11 08:40 PM |
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As I said, I felt elated that he was captured, numb that he was killed. |
joshcryer |
Oct-20-11 08:48 PM |
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Wow, I've seen some crazy stuff here today, but to compare |
sabrina 1 |
Oct-20-11 06:52 PM |
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Show me where I compare Q to H. |
Bake |
Oct-20-11 06:59 PM |
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I don't see a single parallel. You post ed an OP |
sabrina 1 |
Oct-20-11 07:10 PM |
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Gaddafi invaded several African countries, but you've been informed of this over and over again. |
joshcryer |
Oct-20-11 07:08 PM |
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As well as orchestrated the deaths of thousands... |
AngryOldDem |
Oct-21-11 08:22 AM |
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I would have liked to see him at Nuerumberg tried by esteemed and |
demosincebirth |
Oct-20-11 06:52 PM |
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Is this a Dr. Who reference. |
randome |
Oct-20-11 06:55 PM |
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I would hope I could kill him before he started getting traction with his anti-semitic tirades, |
CTyankee |
Oct-20-11 06:59 PM |
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People tried, they failed, unfortunately. He was one lucky son of a bitch. |
joshcryer |
Oct-20-11 07:05 PM |
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Personally, I'd have liked to see him captured or assassinated in |
polly7 |
Oct-20-11 07:07 PM |
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There would be no guarantee that you are in the proper timeline. eom |
yawnmaster |
Oct-20-11 07:08 PM |
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To kill one to possibly save millions yeah |
LynneSin |
Oct-20-11 07:08 PM |
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No. BTW the consensus at the time was not to assassinate him. |
rug |
Oct-20-11 07:09 PM |
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I'm A Pacifist. I couldn't take a life. Not even Hitlers. |
Pyrzqxgl |
Oct-20-11 07:11 PM |
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So you'd let six million+ die because you can't pull the trigger on one monster? |
Bake |
Oct-21-11 08:15 AM |
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It goes back to that "every life is valuable" "every life is special" crap |
snooper2 |
Oct-21-11 09:08 AM |
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yes. |
Warren DeMontague |
Oct-20-11 07:12 PM |
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Interesting the Allies made no serious attempt to kill Hitler. |
former9thward |
Oct-20-11 07:15 PM |
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Yup. |
Darth_Kitten |
Oct-20-11 07:16 PM |
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Yes. |
MoonRiver |
Oct-20-11 07:17 PM |
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Dr. Sam Weizak: I don't like this, John. What are you getting at? |
pintobean |
Oct-20-11 07:25 PM |
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Firstly, our nation didn't go around assassinating dictators back then. |
Cleita |
Oct-20-11 07:27 PM |
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It would not have been a good thing, though billions of times less bad than what he did. |
saras |
Oct-20-11 07:28 PM |
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By the way, I have to credit DinahMoeHum for the "ignoble end" reference! |
Bake |
Oct-20-11 07:40 PM |
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You're missing the point. Are we systematically looking at every country and deciding whether |
TBF |
Oct-20-11 07:40 PM |
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Someone smart would have taken over and caused more trouble than Hitler did. |
Fire Walk With Me |
Oct-20-11 07:41 PM |
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You know I actually got a chance |
nadinbrzezinski |
Oct-20-11 07:43 PM |
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Shot him, skewered him, cut his head off, and pissed on his grave. |
ncteechur |
Oct-20-11 07:46 PM |
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In A Heartbeat. (n/t) |
Paladin |
Oct-20-11 07:46 PM |
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Unless any of us here actually lived throught it, no one can really say... |
markpkessinger |
Oct-20-11 07:47 PM |
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Wouild that solution(?) apply to every "leader" who is responsible for the deaths of people? |
Tierra_y_Libertad |
Oct-20-11 07:48 PM |
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If you had killed him in late 1940, Germany would probably be constantly on the brink... |
JVS |
Oct-20-11 07:49 PM |
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Well, as I said in a thread earlier |
hyphenate |
Oct-20-11 07:54 PM |
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In the 40s? For sure. He was a mass murderer. But not when he was a child. |
McCamy Taylor |
Oct-20-11 08:06 PM |
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Without Hitler, Germany develops the first nuclear weapons... |
hunter |
Oct-20-11 08:13 PM |
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If, as you say, history can be made better or worse by replacing an individual |
Abin Sur |
Oct-20-11 09:10 PM |
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One man doesn't change history? |
Bake |
Oct-21-11 08:13 AM |
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If Thomas Edison had never been born, would we all still be reading by candle light and lanterns? |
Douglas Carpenter |
Oct-21-11 09:16 AM |
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you don't know that. eom |
yawnmaster |
Oct-21-11 03:34 PM |
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Yes. eom |
tawadi |
Oct-20-11 08:22 PM |
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Yep - with my bare hands, a knife or |
cliffordu |
Oct-20-11 08:49 PM |
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Frankly I would go back to the 20's and buy his paintings |
bengalherder |
Oct-20-11 08:56 PM |
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No. I never sit around thinking about killing people. nt |
Modern_Matthew |
Oct-20-11 09:00 PM |
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What if you could have killed his mother before he was born? |
Motown_Johnny |
Oct-20-11 09:18 PM |
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Yes. |
Luciferous |
Oct-20-11 09:33 PM |
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Yes. |
applegrove |
Oct-20-11 11:06 PM |
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Hell yes. |
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin |
Oct-20-11 11:06 PM |
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Fuck yes. |
sakabatou |
Oct-20-11 11:08 PM |
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If you had the opportunity to kill the OP before he posted this... |
pinboy3niner |
Oct-20-11 11:12 PM |
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I'm sure there are some here who would. |
Bake |
Oct-21-11 08:19 AM |
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Hitler not making it out of WWI would have been more preferable |
MrScorpio |
Oct-20-11 11:18 PM |
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the 40s really would have been closing the barn door after the horse was out |
Warren DeMontague |
Oct-21-11 03:42 AM |
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Doesn't answer the question |
Tsiyu |
Oct-21-11 04:59 AM |
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Hitler didn't invent anti-semiticism. He didn't do the Holocaust by himself. |
raccoon |
Oct-21-11 08:28 AM |
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Agree |
Rebubula |
Oct-21-11 09:26 AM |
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The Grandfather Paradox, or Edith Keeler must die |
slackmaster |
Oct-21-11 08:30 AM |
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a genocidal leader of a super power on the verge of world domination is not a realistic comparison |
Douglas Carpenter |
Oct-21-11 08:46 AM |
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The Problem with this... |
Rebubula |
Oct-21-11 09:22 AM |
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no doubt in my mind.. 2 shots to the back of his head |
rdking647 |
Oct-21-11 09:35 AM |
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Sure, in fact I would have been drafted and ordered to do it. |
ThomWV |
Oct-21-11 11:50 AM |
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Without absolute knowledge of the relevant consequences of any one person's death |
LanternWaste |
Oct-21-11 12:27 PM |
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+1000 (n/t) |
spin |
Oct-21-11 12:36 PM |
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I'd put him on trial with the rest of the Nazis |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Oct-21-11 02:23 PM |
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I don't know if I have it in me to kill anyone |
mrs_p |
Oct-21-11 02:23 PM |
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I would have done it quite happily. No doubt, no regret. Nt |
DevonRex |
Oct-21-11 02:38 PM |
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Godwin in 1. |
Iggo |
Oct-21-11 02:41 PM |
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Way too late |
Ter |
Oct-21-11 03:27 PM |
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Way too late |
Ter |
Oct-21-11 03:27 PM |
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nope. i'd be a hypocrite if i said i would. |
elana i am |
Oct-21-11 04:54 PM |
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No, because I was just a child at that time. n/t |
RebelOne |
Oct-21-11 05:05 PM |
#139 |
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I hated Japs and Nazis at that time! |
oldlib |
Oct-21-11 05:07 PM |
#140 |
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