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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mark Konrad who wrote (13977)	2/28/2003 4:56:44 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

The historians you quoted were talking about a country that had an industrialized base and a work force totally different from that available in Iraq. Raw material availability also completely different than that available in Iraq. The relationships Germany had with other countries, and the diplomatic work it did at the time, totally different from the present situation. Germany was not monitored by satellites, was not being bombed in no-fly zones, and it's populace was not already demoralized from a series of wars- in other words the Germans still had the illusion that they could be great again, (despite the humiliation of WWI- or we could say, because of it) - I do not think you can say the same of the Iraqi people (and Saddam's propaganda on the subject doesn't change the facts that his military is NOT in the same league as the German military.) Some of the few comparisons you can make between Germany and Iraq is that they both had nasty leaders, who exterminated portions of their own populations, and that they were both victims of attempted assassinations by their own troops (but you can say that about a great many vicious leaders). Idi Amin was nasty too- but that didn't make his country comparable to WWII Germany. Your comparison is ludicrous. I can't do a good job disputing your "beliefs" though, because like religion, they are based on premises I do not accept. You obviously see Iraq as comparable to Germany, despite the fact that by almost any rational metric it is not- who can rationally argue with something as irrational as that?