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Politics : Attack Iraq?
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1754)9/28/2002 7:41:28 PM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (2) of 8683
 
Germany was defeated with its economy in ruins (runaway inflation, remember) and had restrictions placed on its armament development.

Really? How did Germany come to have the strongest army in the world? To compare the Iraqi army with the German army is ludicrous. The Iraqi army in 1991 was tiny and pathetic, and it has since gotten dramatically weaker, especially in terms of weapons of mass destruction. The German army in the late 1930s was the strongest in the world, and it was gaining in strength.

To call people who want arms inspectors and a complete arms embargo on Iraq "appeasers" is worse than ludicrous, it's slanderous.

I also notice that you seem to be intermingling references to Germany in the early 1930s to the term "appeasers". Are you referring to the American leaders who referred to Hitler as a "moderate" at this time, and the Americans who helped him rebuild? The right-wingers loved him and Mussolini, because he appeared to share their (and your) hatred of workers' rights.

It was the German use of submarines in the war that brought the U.S. in direct confrontation with Germany. The German submarines fired indiscriminately at neutral ships too.

Why was Germany attacking American ships? That seems odd, considering we had no conflict with them.

Tom
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