[newdayrising]

As a counterpoint to this article: https://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/fi...

The author of the article is using words as a tool for propaganda. He connects very complex situations that are entirely dissimilar to paint Churchill as a mass murderer:

"Dealing with unrest in Mesopotamia in 1921, as secretary of state for the colonies, Churchill acted as a war criminal: “I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against the uncivilised tribes; it would spread a lively terror.” He ordered large-scale bombing of Mesopotamia, with an entire village wiped out in 45 minutes."

In Churchill's own words, he approved of gas to prevent deaths. When reading the article it's hard not to connect the words "bombing", "poison", "terror", "wiped out" and come out thinking Churchill was a mass murderer. But the bombing of Dresden was a bit more complicated, no? And including "poison gas," an ambiguous term, in the same paragraph as "an entire village wiped out in 45 minutes," is extremely dishonest.