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To: Ilaine who wrote (212279)	1/9/2007 8:19:26 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<It really was their call.>> Yes. We let it be their call despite the reservations of the military commanders in Baghdad. We didn't have to do that. He was in our custody and had been for quite a while. How about some old fashioned procrastination until a non-mob execution could have been guaranteed? How do you think they handled it, after we handed him over? Did it work out well from our POV? We made a big mistake, and "it really was their call" doesn't convert it into the Right (or smart) Thing To Have Done.

To: Ilaine who wrote (212279)	1/11/2007 9:20:21 AM
From: Noel de Leon	Respond to of 281500

"In Truman's case, of course, there was really nothing he could do, not really." True but irrelevant. The final division of Nazi Germany was decided at Yalta by FDR, Churchill, and Stalin. "The Big Three had ratified previous agreements about the postwar division of Germany: there were to be three zones of occupation, one zone for each of the three dominant nations (France would later get a portion when the USA and Great Britain divided up parts of their zones and gave them to France). Berlin itself, although within the Soviet zone, would also be divided into three sectors, and would eventually become a major symbol of the Cold War because of the division of the city due to the infamous Berlin Wall, constructed and manned by the Soviet-backed Communist East German government." "Stalin agreed to let France have the fourth occupation zone in Germany and Austria, carved out from the British and American zones. France would also be granted a seat in the Allied Control Council." en.wikipedia.org Potsdam(august 1945) was, as far as the division of Germany goes, a continuation of the previous conferences.