re: Meet the Pilot Who Dropped the Sarin Bomb

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I just don't understand why gassing is worse than bombing the shite out of them. Hasn't that been going on forever?

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Typically not a line that is crossed.

One of his flunkies pointed out to Hitler that the two million Allied soldiers massing to invade Europe in 1944 made a perfect gas target. Hitler, who had been gassed himself, declined to initiate a gas attack. He knew the Allies could dish it out a lot better than Germany could.