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To: Brumar89 who wrote (117097)	10/17/2003 11:04:19 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Brumar89; Re: "From Life magazine 1946: Americans are losing the victory in Europe" The article doesn't mention a single American casualty in postwar Europe. Not a single one. This is consistent with the documents I have found on the postwar situation in Germany. The reason the Administration is pulling this (ancient) news out is in order to provide justification for their claims that the peace in Iraq is going just peachy. But again, there was zero killing of US soldiers by German rebels in postwar Iraq. None. Zilch. Nada. The comparison just makes Iraq look that much nastier, by comparison. Not only that, but the fact that the Europeans were pissed at us after the war, despite all our assistance to their war torn economies, is pretty good evidence that the Iraqis aren't going to suddenly turn around and start loving us because of our assistance in Iraq. In short, human nature hasn't changed in 50 years, and the Iraqis are going to remain just as angry at us now, as the Europeans were then. The difference is that the Iraqis are mad enough to shoot at us, while the Europeans were not. This whole concept that the peace in Iraq is going swimmingly ignores the central fact of resistances to occupation forces, and that is the inevitable time delay between the occupation and the rise of the resistance. Let's review some history, shall we? But I'll put it in a post after this one, this post is already too long. -- Carl