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To: michael97123 who wrote (69936)	1/29/2003 3:57:10 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<it was the responsibility of france and england back then to nip hitler in the bud> Mike, nipping something like Germany in the bud isn't like taking on Saddam. WWI was a recent memory. The horrific carnage of that effort was enough to make any sensible person pause. A NZ WWI war hero [Ormond Burton a cousin of my father] was gaoled during WWII each time he got up on a soap box to speak against the war. He'd seen war up close and personal. It's awkward to have heroes turn the other way. A bit like Andrei Sakharov in the USSR. Germany was not exactly small compared with France and Britain. I can understand the hand-wringing as Hitler gained ground and the awful realization that he simply had to be stopped after attempts to appease him failed. Stopping Hitler wasn't going to involve a few cyberspace Predator strikes from a safe distance, or quick and overwhelming force. As it happened, Hitler enjoyed the quick and overwhelming force with blitzkrieg Panzer strikes. It's understandable that there's lots of hand-wringing over Saddam. Plenty of civilians are likely to be killed, injured and traumatized for life. Not to mention soldiers who are people too. Those who have seen such stuff up close and personal are loathe to support more of it, even if there's suffering at the hands of a tyrant. Mqurice