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To: Win Smith who wrote (389)	1/28/2003 1:04:57 PM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 603

Christopher Hitchens, The Wartime Toll on Germany Thanks for posting this piece. It gets lost in all the "old Europe" and "axis of weasels" talk that Europe has experienced the horrors of a real war. To "do a Bilow" here's the population percentage which was killed in WW II, USA vs. Germany: USA: # (0.2%) Germany: ############################################# (9.1%) Source: Population losses in World War II by country infoukes.com Maybe there's a hidden sympathy in Germany with Iraq though I haven't seen it discussed anywhere: the Iraqi people suffers like Germany during Hitler times from a dictator which it doesn't manage to get rid off by itself. It was just to fight Hitler after his Poland and France invasion, of course. Yet the German civilian population was subjected to tremendous misery, and many persons killed by Allied bombing were opponents of the Hitler regime. A similar catastrophe is dooming for Iraqis. Their only choice might be to die from Iraqi security forces or US bombs or bullets. That's why I felt obliged to bring up documents with casualty estimates in #reply-18484646 though, expectedly, the resonance is much lower than the daily exercise in Allies bashing.