Do allied firebombings during WWII constitute war crimes?

[ingemann]

No, killing fascists is not a crime.

[ingemann]

what are you trying to say with this picture...?

I'm illustrating what kind of things people support, when they mindless support making civilian population a primary target, I could have shown the picture of a North Ossetian School and the dead children there instead, but the stupidity of Murica!'s post indicated that he would be even less likely to get that point.

I'm accept that collateral damage happens in war, that's a sad fact in life, but there's a major difference in bombing military targets with civilian collateral damage and target civilians.

[ingemann]

True... but the RAF's heart was in the right place even if their actions in retrospect were wrong.

WTF "their heart was in the right place". RAF was terror bombing civilians, let's not sugar coat, we can make up excuses, but that was what they did, they was targeting civilians, not military, not infrastructure, not factories; civilians. This was no difference than German soldiers massacrering villages in areas with partisan activity, except there was a chance that would work (and it did to some extent). Both did it for their country, and to that extent it can be defended, but let's not begin sugarcoating it, just because the Nazi regime was evil.