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Old 27th Aug 2002, 08:21
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100 WORST Britons - according to the Daily Mail

Field Marshal Earl Haig...Responsible for the needless death of countless British Tommies in World War 1
True. But also responsible for the death of over 20,000 in ONE day - on 1st July 1916 on the Somme! Over 450,000 casualties while under his command!!

Bomber Harris...For the bombing of Dresden in 1945.
Not true. Churchill ordered it - at the behest of one Joseph Stalin.

Oliver Cromwell...Power-hungry hypocrite who claimed everything he did was ordained by God
Nothing has change in Parliament then.

There were many more. Just picked two or three from a Mil standpoint.

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