soc.history.war.world-war-ii

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:05:52 -0400, "Scott M. Kozel"
wrote:

>asp...@pacific.net.au (Phil McGregor) wrote:
>>
>> "Scott M. Kozel" wrote:
>>
>> >You advance the insinuation that they lied, and then you seemingly pull
>> >it back.
>>
>> No. You can't seem to grasp that I am pointing out that there are
>> possible reasons *why* they may have lied.
>>
>> Which are, essentially, as unprovable as your claims that they told
>> the pure unvarnished truth.
>
>There you go again. I have not claimed that the Kormoran crew "told
>the pure unvarnished truth."

No, you merely seem to accept it as such

>I merely think that accusations of war crimes is a very serious
>matter, and that unless there is clear evidence of such, that the
>default position should be that they did not commit war crimes.

And my position is that the lack of evidence is such that nothing can
be ruled out (except Alien Space Bats, UFOs and Japanese submarines,
in all likelihood) ... and I haven't had to mention strawmen accounts
of machinegunning survivors *once*, let alone *twice*.

Phil

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