Iraq Can't Be Compared to Post-World War II

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Iraq Can't Be Compared to Post-World War II

April 24 2006
Counterbias.com
GENE C. GERARD


In the past three years the Bush administration has vigorously made comparisons between reconstruction in Iraq and post-World War II Germany and Japan. Many of the administration’s analogies have been forced, at best. A variety of historians, political scientists, and even former government officials have suggested that the comparisons are rather tenuous. But a new report by the Congressional Research Service has essentially demolished the administration’s analogies.

Condoleeza Rice, as National Security Advisor, gave a speech to the American Legion convention in 2003 in which she made comparisons between Iraq and German reconstruction. She cautioned, “There is an understandable tendency to look back on America’s experience in postwar Germany and see only the successes, 1945 through 1947 was an especially challenging period. Germany was not immediately stable. SS officers engaged in sabotage and attacked both coalition forces and those locals cooperating with them – much like today’s Baathist.”

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1. Rice Makes Mountains Out Of Mole-Hills In Reference To '45='47

The "resistance" in occupied Germany compares to the resistance in occuppied Iraq about like a cap pistol to an eight-inch howitzer....

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2. Oops, I see it's already been posted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=206170&mesg_id=206170

Sorry Gene! ..but next time don't forget the link. :)