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04/20/2008: "World War Two just as pointless and self-defeating as Iraq"

The people who sold us Iraq did so as if they were today's Churchills. They were wrong.

In that case, how can we be sure that Churchill's war was a good war?

What if the Men of Glory didn't need to die or risk their lives? What if the whole thing was a miscalculated waste of life and wealth that destroyed Britain as a major power and turned her into a bankrupt pensioner of the USA?

The other is one I hear from an ever-growing number of war veterans contemplating modern Britain's landscape of loutishness and disorder and recalling the sacrifices they made for it: "Why did we bother?"

Don't read on if these questions rock your universe.

[ It really marks a turning point when a high profile journalist and author is having views such as this printed in a mainstream newspaper. ]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560700&in_page_id=1770

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on Tuesday, April 22nd, Dental Plan said

The ship is still sailing, but the hull is starting to leak. The fact that it helped the Soviets defeat the "Horrible Nazis" is the ONLY justification that the Anglo-American empire has for exerting any amount of influence over the rest of the world today. As conditions worsen, some of us dare wonder if a German victory would have really left the world worse off than it's becoming.