To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (12293 ) 2/24/2003 3:35:27 AM From: AK2004 Respond to PatThe threat was indeed in the very heart of Europe, and unmistakably real......Everybody knew he was doing this illegally even before he openly announced it Today's United Nations is fast shaping up to be equally ineffectual. In 1939, the Third Reich was the most powerful and highly armed state in the world. To defeat it took six years, even though for much of that time it was fighting on several fronts at once All I know is that I look at photographs of ordinary Iraqis caught between the rock of a foul ruler, and the hard place of approaching Armageddon, and it breaks my heart. Saddam is not Hitler. He has not invaded anywhere since the Gulf war and has shown no signs of wanting to do so. Possessing weapons of mass destruction is one thing, intending to use them quite another. Nineteen thirty nine it is not. and went to the length of colluding with France and Israel with the aim of knocking Nasser off his perch. Historical analogies are rarely useful.....I belong to the school that doesn't put much trust in historical precedents. Boer war, where you had a large, heavily armed imperial power trying to eradicate the threat from an awkward regional state which happened to control an important raw material.
