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| Ex-UN arms inspector likens Iraq war with Hitler’s Poland invasion |
| 2003-05-06 |
| Guess who? IRNA -- Former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter on Tuesday compared the US war in Iraq with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland, saying that American President George W. Bush and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler used "the same lie" to justify the military attack. "I don't see any difference between the (US) invasion of Iraq and Hitler's invasion of Poland in the year 1939," Ritter told the Berlin-based Berliner Zeitung. He added that Hitler claimed self-defense as a pretext to march into Poland, while Bush used the same excuse to attack Iraq on March 20. "It's the same lie. 130 Americans died in this war for a lie," Ritter was quoted as saying. Meanwhile the ex-UN official said he believed that Iraq had no more weapons of mass destruction. Another report from IRNAs German bureau. In this case I have no problem believing Ritter said this. |
| Posted by:Steve |