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Originally Posted by Squirtit
This has happened in every war, with every nations military, in every generation.
Nothing compared to what the Greeks would do when conquering a people.
No excuse for it no matter who it is.
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The Greeks??? They were a bunch of pantywaists compared to the Mongols:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped...dad_%281258%29
"A number of inhabitants ranging from 100,000 to 1,000,000 were massacred during the invasion of the city, and the city was sacked and burned. Even the libraries of Baghdad, including the House of Wisdom, were not safe from the attacks of the Ilkhanate forces who totally destroyed the libraries, and used the invaluable books to make a passage across Tigris River[citation needed]. As a result Baghdad remained depopulated and in ruins for several centuries, and the event is conventionally regarded as the end of the Islamic Golden Age."