"Here's another interesting sidelight on the early war years. The Luftwaffe had been strictly ordered from early 1940 NOT to bomb British cities or metropolitan areas." I had read that a German plane in trouble cleared it's bombs (dropped them randomly to gain altitude, not to attack a target) over a populated area which provoked Churchill. He is supposed to have relished the idea since it was the only way Britain could strike back at German at the time. Either way it's easy to argue that the Germans really never initially intended to bomb civilian targets. They didn't have the planes for it. It was the British and Americans that read H.G. Wells and built long range heavy bombers for that kind of work even before the war. In the end the Americans were the most promiscuous of all at bombing civilians.

Can't agree with Jimmy Carter. Come on, Jimmy Carter is the best ex-president we've ever had. No kidding, no fooling, a man who deserves everyone's respect since he left office. He was just too nice for the job in those troubled times.

Well, while we're dragging them all out of the closet (so to speak), there's always Chester B. Arthur who did little but was supposed to be sigularly currupt in doing it.