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Nazis didn't kill Israelis.  

And France and Engaland would have defeated Germany quickly in 1938, unlike in 1939-1940.  

by BooMan on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 09:35:07 AM EST
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the other big factor that gets conveniently forgotten is that both the British and French public were completely, utterly, War weary at the time of Munich. At the time it was seen as a great achievement in avoiding another Europe wide war.

the view of Chamberlain as a bumbling failure was a manufacture of Churchills, there's a Churchill quote (which I can't quite find at the moment) along the lines of "He will be viewed badly by History, because I will write it". I don't quite think that George has the literary skills to manage the same.

by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at or about) gmail (point) com) on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 09:57:54 AM EST
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Although it was Churchill who insisted that Chamberlain stay on in the war cabinet.  Which was a wise move - there was a real question after the fall of France as to whether it would be better for Britain to enter into a negotiated peace rather than continue the war.  They would have to give up parts of the Empire and would probably lose the navy (and thus cease to be a world power) and there would be a German-approved government - BUT they would save lives.  Chamberlain, along with the entire war cabinet, was part of the consensus to fight on (in the hope that finally the US would enter the war).  
by maryb2004 on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 10:44:30 AM EST
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And the Iranians aren't threatening European Jews. They are - arguably - threatening Israel.
by Colman on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 11:58:21 AM EST
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The sentence you reference is looking for a commonality between Nazi Germany and Iran.  That commonality is not that they both are responsible for killing Israelis.  It is that they both are responsible for killing Jews.  

And that is why Joe Lieberman finds the two to be interchangeable.  If they both say anti-semitic things and commit violence against innocent Jews, then they are effectively the same...at least from a certain point of view.

I, obviously, do not think that point of view is valid as a way of judging the threat posed by Iran.  

by BooMan on Fri May 16th, 2008 at 12:05:34 PM EST
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