Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.
German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.
Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence.
Germany wants peaceful coexistence of Muslims and members of other religions.
Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.
Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.
And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq.
The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders.