[Peace-discuss] Out now

[David Green]

I just read in Tony Judt's book "Postwar" that the
Germans only had to station 1700 police officers in
all of France to mind the civilian population. The
French did the rest themselves. Then afterwards they
were suddenly all resistance fighters.

DG

--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> There are striking differences. For one thing, the
> Germans had more
> support in occupied France than the Americans have
> in occupied Iraq (in
> part because their occupation was less oppressive).
> 
> 
> Chas. 'Mark' Bee wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G.
> Estabrook"
> > <carl at newsfromneptune.com>
> > To: <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:44 AM
> > Subject: [Peace-discuss] Out now
> > 
> > 
> >>
> >> Published on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 by the
> Seattle Post-Intelligencer
> >> Civil War Won't End Until Troops Leave Iraq
> >> by Patrick Cockburn
> >> ...
> >> Can anything be done to lead Iraqi out of this
> savage civil war even if
> >> it is now too late to stop it? Friction among
> Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds
> >> was always likely after the fall of Saddam
> Hussein. But what has divided
> >> the communities most is their differing attitude
> to foreign occupation.
> >> Ending that is essential if this war is to be
> brought to an end.
> >>
> > 
> >  Doesn't sound like the French Resistance to me. 
> ;)
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