I think that is my point. Even if Dresden and 100% of its inhabitants were to have been wiped off the map, that is not genocide. To qualify for the term, it would have been necessary to try the same trick with all other German cities, and the rural bits as well. To the best of my knowledge, no such effort was made, so there was no genocide - attempted or otherwise.
Pedantry, but if you insist,
homicidal war criminal then.
The point was that you can make anyone look good or bad by selectively choosing the things they have done/not done, or have happened/not happened to reflect the view you want to reflect.
Take a look at today, its September 11, and the loony conspiracy theorists are out force. So far, in the eight years since, we have had the loony brigade cherry picking "facts" (and I use the term loosely) to prove, at various times, that the following were responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
CIA, FBI, NSA, FEMA, Mi5, Mi6, SIS, a Joint Operation of any two or more of the afroementioned, the US Government (a Bush-Chaney conspiracy), Colombian Drug Cartels, Mexican Drug Cartels, Big Oil, the Vatican, New York Jews, Mossad, The brother of Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh (apparently he doesn't even have a brother but that doesn't seem to work the CT's). the brother of the UnaBomber, the brother of Vernon Wayne Howell (aka David Koresh, the wacko from Waco)... he has no brothers either. the Saudi Government, the British Royal Family, Reptilian shape-shifting aliens and Pakistani Foreign Ministry.
Many of these conspiracy theories make perfect sense if you choose to ignore other facts than those presented in the theory.
But I digress.
An article in Planet Rugby, of all places, extolling the virtues of any rugby referee can be taken with a dessert spoonful of salt.
I'm afraid I am a long way past even bothering to read the rubbish that tries to pass for journalism on PR. It shouldn't be called Planet Rugby anyway, it should be call ER - Euro Rugby, that's what its mostly about. The rest of the planet is lucky to get lip service.