Reply #43: indeed right back

[northzax]

<excellent use of the word 'quisling' by the way, don't hear that one enough :)>

I would first off say that Aziz was, at the very least, a collaborator with the Hussein regime, and now he collaborates with whoever the hell is running the place now (from the inside of a jail cell, of course) Tariq Aziz is also slimey, he many, or may not, be evil, I don't know, but he certainly profited from an assoication with evil.

I think we're on the same page, or at least the same chapter in regards to Stalinism. I wouldn't equate Stalin to facism in general, I think that would be unfair to Generalissimos Franco and Mussolini who were fascists but did not run genocides against their own people (to the same extent as Hitler) I can compare Stalinism to Nazism, however, in the willingness to use brutal force and genocidal tactics to gain and maintain power. I'l also throw the Khmer Rouge and Chairman Mao up there (as well as Lord Amherst, by the way, but he came before) Mass murder is mass murder. I certainly never intended to imply that you, personally were an apologist for Stalinism, if I did so, I apologise.