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Originally posted by Endymon32
You slay me. Look at Germany six months after the major fighting stopped. There was more death, more destruction and less success. By your logic, we should have pulled out thus creating the same circumstances that happened after ww1 that led to ww2. I dont see the Germans ralling to destroy America today ( nor do i see it in Japan) and starting a new war? As per usuall, you are wrong. Again.
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*sigh* This is a particularly insiduous lie being spread by the current administration.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2087768/
A few blurbs, feel free to click and read all of it:
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The Army history records that while there were the occasional anti-occupation leaflets and graffiti, the GIs had reason to feel safe. When an officer in Hesse was asked to investigate rumors that troops were being attacked and castrated, he reported back that there had not been a single attack against an American soldier in four months of occupation. As the distinguished German historian Golo Mann summed it up in The History of Germany Since 1789, "The [Germans'] readiness to work with the victors, to carry out their orders, to accept their advice and their help was genuine; of the resistance which the Allies had expected in the way of 'werewolf' units and nocturnal guerrilla activities, there was no sign. …"
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It's hard to understand exactly what Rumsfeld was saying, but if he meant that the Nazi resisters killed Americans after the surrender, this would be news. According to America's Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq, a new study by former Ambassador James Dobbins, who had a lead role in the Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo reconstruction efforts, and a team of RAND Corporation researchers, the total number of post-conflict American combat casualties in Germany—and Japan, Haiti, and the two Balkan cases—was zero.
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emphasis mine.
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Last edited by Sparhawk; 12-29-2003 at 12:03 PM..
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