Submitted by: Joe Nunes <nunes@cs.toronto.edu> Thu, 17 Jan 1991
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From:
         Michael S. Sherry, "The Rise of American Air Power: The
Creation of Armageddon", Yale University Press, 1987.

"We are preparing an offensive war against Japan, whereas the Japs
believe we are preparing only to defend the Phillipines [sic] ...
[If war occurs] we'll fight mercilessly. Flying fortresses will be
dispatched to set the paper cities of Japan on fire. There won't be
any hesitation about bombing civilians -- it will be all out."

		-- General George C. Marshall, Nov. 15, 1941, speaking
		confidentially to a gathering of press bureau
		chiefs and senior correspondents

"There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are
fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore.
So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing so-called innocent
bystanders."
		-- General Curtis Le May, commenting on the bombing of
		   Japan, after World War II

"To test the [atomic] bomb's real destructiveness, three or four cities
must be saved intact from the B-29's regular operations as unspoiled
targets for the new weapon. Which cities should be spared was a
problem."
		-- General Henry Harley Arnold, writing after the war

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From:
	John Dower, "War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific
	War", Faber and Faber, 1986.

... any general bombing of an extensive area wherein there resides a
large population engaged in peaceful pursuits is unwarranted and
contrary to principles of law and humanity.
		--Department of State, 1937

In 1939, President Roosevelt made a plea to the warring nations in
Europe to refrain from the "inhuman barbarism" of bombing civilians:

The ruthless bombing from the air of civilians in unfortified centers
of population during the course of the hostilities which have raged in
various quarters of the earth during the past few years, which has
resulted in the maiming and in the death of thousands of defenseless
men, women and children, has sickened the hearts of every civilized
man and woman, and has profoundly shocked the conscience of humanity.
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