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To: broadstbull who wrote (122107)	12/26/2003 10:28:00 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

My misunderstanding? Germany has been compared to a broken down, non-industrial third-world country -- Iraq. It is a pile of bullfeathers. Germany was an industrial superpower. Hitler did not wave a magic wand and create a military machine capable of taking on the world. He revived an industrial power that was badly shaken and humbled after WWI -- but nothing changes the fact that Germany had immense scientific and industrial capability when Hitler came into power. The US emerged from WWII not only as the victor but as the dominant industrial power of the world -- a lesson the Japanese learned well when we began to vaporize their cities (the ones we had not destroyed by firebombing). WWII changed the world's pecking order. But prior to WWII Germany was the top-dog as an industrial power -- which is why they were so anxious to demonstrate their superiority through war -- just as we are so anxious to demonstrate our superior firepower today. If you want to believe that Iraq in 2003 and Germany in 1939 held the same positions in the world then you are welcome to your fantasy -- but that is what it is, a fantasy.