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To: thames_sider who wrote (12570)	2/17/2006 8:55:05 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 543697

No, I don't think Iraq is unique. Italian patriots fought with the allies in Italy, most of them may have been communists but I not all. Other Italian patriots wanted to at least get out of the war, but the Germans wouldn't have it. Afghani patriots support the government. Ukrainian patriots (many of them not facist/nazi) supported the overthrow of the communists by the Nazis only to regret it when the Nazis abused them and then the Communist came back pissed off and heaped more abuse. I don't know as much about the situation in Lithuania at the time but I know that SS units where not the only opposition to the Communists. And in Lithuania the Germans were not liberating the country and pushing democratic elections, they where conquering the country. There is no good patriotic reason to support a Nazi invasion that I can think of. Most cases when a foreign army moved in and kicked out the local dictator they did so either to conquer and annex it, or to put "their guy" in power to rule the country in the conquerors interest. Iraq and Afghanistan are not examples of this. To repeat my question, are you saying that the typical soldiers in Iraq's new army are like the members of the the Lithuanian SS battalions? Tim