Back in the 30′s the British navy trained and help build the Japanese navy. The CIA trained and built up the forces of al Qaeda and the Taliban. I wonder if the training of the Iraq armed forces will have the same successful outcome as did these other examples of stupidity?

Why would a country spend all that time and money and young lives to defeat the armed forces of another country only to then build up the forces of the defeated country? Only a politician could see the reasoning behind such a farce. If they really had the interests of the Iraqis at heart they firstly wouldn’t have attacked them and now they have done the dirty deed they should spend their money trying to reestablish the infrastructure of Iraq. The Iraqis are probably fed up with the fighting and killing and would rather have an honest and just system of law and law enforcement which doesn’t mean having armed troops running around shooting and kicking in doors etc.

It’s about time that the world admitted that Iraq is in civil war and the only people that can settle that is the Iraqis themselves and it will most likely follow the pattern of other civil wars and involve a lot of blood letting and suffering before the leaders come to their senses. The presence of foreign troops would be like a red rag to a bull and they will always be to blame for the trouble and will accomplish nothing.

Hitler was a monster that conned the people of Germany into first thinking that they were a master race and that they had to protect their superiority from contamination from minority groups such as Jews and Gypsies. This enabled him to introduce a policy which would persecute this unpopular group.

To improve the ability to arrest and torture these people he introduced a policy whereby the secret police and gestapo could arrest and hold people without charge and if anyone questioned the arrest they also could be arrested and tortured.

The next step was to ensure that education was of a rote nature which taught and didn’t allow question. All books that encouraged thought were burnt and history was adjusted to suit the nazi line.

Trade unions were suppressed and workers were made to work for the good of the country, as determined by Hitler.

Wars were taken up with countries that had no chance of defending themselves against the by now mighty army of Germany.

News was censored and justice was perverted.

However, Hitler did bring about an economic boom for the while that things were going well.

Patriotism was replace by saluting of flags and jingoistic nationalism.

If you were to ask the average Australian today if he would welcome a Hitler regeme here in Australia he would laugh at you and think that you were mad. However, I would suggest that they think again because if one looks closely at the things that Hitler did, the Howard government has followed pretty closely in the same path.

As in Germany, the industrialists thought that Hitler was the bees neez but it was the ordinary workers that paid the price for the Hitler excesses. I’m afraid that we here may have to suffer the same humiliation.