DtG,
I did not say anything about denigrating the dead
You did.

Ake,
Why on earth would you want jeri to close this thread while others like "Peeing in a onesie" are left on the board?

From: Dave the Gnome - PM
Date: 02 Jan 16 - 02:33 PM
Because the peeing in a onesie thread is mildly amusing and does not denigrate the deaths of 17 million people?

If that does not demonstrate that you consider the loss of life unimportant I don't know what does.

You do not know much then Dave.
He does not say any such thing, you just pretend to infer that because you can not challenge anything actually said.

He has consistently said that the ONLY important thing in a conflict is winning.

It goes without saying that losses are a bad thing silly.
Of course they wanted to win with the minimum of loss. All armies do and always have, if only because soldiers are limited asset.

Jim,
obscene number of young man who were sacrificed in a world-wide quabble over colonies.

It was not a "squabble over colonies." Britain did not intend to be in the war until Belgium was invaded.

The fact ids that everything you have said has been challenged -

Yes it has, even though I only say what the historians have established.
Your challenges are just from your empty heads. No historian believes those myths you cling to.

Or have you found one yet?