Reply #1: I t seems you are right but I do not know my history that well.

[izzie]

The countries coming out of the Iron Curtain countries seem to do better but that is a little later and some what different.Japan and Germany I do not think can be put into this at all but I do hear the GOP keep saying this as like Iraq. The armies in these countries turned their govt over to us and Germany was rebuilt, but then only half and Japan was a unit within its self of people who did what they were told. We also put in the govt and the people to run it who did as we told for 50 years.Germany was run by Eng. Fr. and Us. or the parts that worked out well and Rus. just looted their part and ruled with an iron fist. I would say what we did is more like Germany did to Poland or Austria, as it seems to me it is a take over. Fr. also comes to mind. The whole time Ger. was in Fr. they fought in the under ground to get them out and I think they lost a million men at the start of the war so it was really not just the same either. Iraq army just melted away and Fr. gave up after being really beat.It also was not the whole country. It is an interesting subject. Fir the life of me I do not see where the US got it in their minds we would be met with dancing flower people. Ever hear of that going on. Fr. did at the end of the war but how can we count that as the same?