The proud people of Hamburg did not ask for sympathy or pity. They accepted that there had been some reason for the Allies to try to level the city to the ground. But for Dresden, they said, there had been no excuse at all. - Alexander Mckee
This Mckee kid is one of the historians who argues that the bombing of Dresden was ethically unsound and even goes as far as to suggest it is a war crime (obviously not in this quote).
Personally I don't think bombing Dresden is a war crime. Although it certainly wasn't the most morally uplifting part of the war.
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