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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (122069)12/25/2003 10:51:30 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Germany was not being crushed by UN sanctions and Germany was not under UN inspections. Iraq did not have anything like the industrial capability of Germany - ten years after the gulf war, Iraq was on the verge of collapse, not comeback.

Your points are not true GST. Germany was under the exact equivalent of UN sanctions and inspections - the punitive terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which called for huge reparations and limited German arms severely. German industrial capacity was rebuilding from a low level in the midst of the Great Depression. Had France and England marched in 1936, the Third Reich would have collapsed, and everybody would have looked at the still small industrial capacity and army to say "See? there was no danger! you marched for nothing! Hitler was a buffoon, not a serious threat!"

Just as you are saying now.
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