> With a good bit of talk recently about hitler liberals and leftists, this
> looked to be of interest.........
>
> " Seattle Times Editor: 'Hitler's Demands Were Not Unreasonable'
>
> Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:14:14 pm PST
>
> Seattle Times editorial writer Bruce Ramsey, in an effort to defend Barack
> Obama against President Bush’s “appeasement” speech, actually ends up
> defending Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, and the Anschluss (the annexation of
> Austria): Bush, and His Use of ‘Appeasement’. "
>
> http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/edcetera/2008/05/bush_and_his_u...
> May 16, 2008 8:52 AM
> Bush, and His Use of "Appeasement"
>
> Posted by Bruce Ramsey
>
> Democrats are rebuking President Bush for saying in his speech to the ...

>On May 17, 12:02 am, FACE today.net> wrote:

>> With a good bit of talk recently about hitler, liberals and leftists, this
>> looked to be of interest.........
>>
>> " Seattle Times Editor: 'Hitler's Demands Were Not Unreasonable'
>>
>> Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:14:14 pm PST
>>
>> Seattle Times editorial writer Bruce Ramsey, in an effort to defend Barack
>> Obama against President Bush’s “appeasement” speech, actually ends up
>> defending Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, and the Anschluss (the annexation of
>> Austria): Bush, and His Use of ‘Appeasement’. "
>>
>> http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/edcetera/2008/05/bush_and_his_u...
>> May 16, 2008 8:52 AM
>> Bush, and His Use of "Appeasement"
>>
>> Posted by Bruce Ramsey ...

> What Hitler was demanding was not unreasonable. He wanted the
> German-speaking areas of Europe under German authority. He had just annexed
> Austria, which was German-speaking, without bloodshed. There were two more
> small pieces of Germanic territory: the free city of Danzig and the
> Sudetenland, a border area of what is now the Czech Republic.
>
> We live in an era when you do not change national borders for these sorts of
> reasons. But in 1938 it was different. Germany’s eastern and western borders
> had been redrawn 19 years before—and not to its benefit. In the democracies
> there was some sense of guilt with how Germany had been treated after World
> War I. Certainly there was a memory of the “Great War.” In 2008, we have
> entirely forgotten World War I, and how utterly unlike any conception of
> “The Good War” it was. When the British let Hitler have a slice of
> Czechoslovakia, they were following their historical wisdom: avoid war. War
> produces results far more horrible than you expected. War is a bad
> investment. It is not glorious. Don’t give anyone an excuse to start one.
>
> In a few months, in early 1939, Hitler ordered the invasion of what is now
> the Czech Republic—that is, territory that was not German. Then it was ...

> On 17 May, 00:02, FACE today.net> wrote:

>> What Hitler was demanding was not unreasonable. He wanted the
>> German-speaking areas of Europe under German authority. He had just annexed
>> Austria, which was German-speaking, without bloodshed. There were two more
>> small pieces of Germanic territory: the free city of Danzig and the
>> Sudetenland, a border area of what is now the Czech Republic.
>>
>> We live in an era when you do not change national borders for these sorts of
>> reasons. But in 1938 it was different. Germany

>On 17 May, 00:02, FACE today.net> wrote:

>> What Hitler was demanding was not unreasonable. He wanted the
>> German-speaking areas of Europe under German authority. He had just annexed
>> Austria, which was German-speaking, without bloodshed. There were two more
>> small pieces of Germanic territory: the free city of Danzig and the
>> Sudetenland, a border area of what is now the Czech Republic.
>>
>> We live in an era when you do not change national borders for these sorts of
>> reasons. But in 1938 it was different. Germany’s eastern and western borders
>> had been redrawn 19 years before—and not to its benefit. In the democracies
>> there was some sense of guilt with how Germany had been treated after World
>> War I. Certainly there was a memory of the “Great War.” In 2008, we have
>> entirely forgotten World War I, and how utterly unlike any conception of
>> “The Good War” it was. When the British let Hitler have a slice of
>> Czechoslovakia, they were following their historical wisdom: avoid war. War
>> produces results far more horrible than you expected. War is a bad
>> investment. It is not glorious. Don’t give anyone an excuse to start one.
>> ...

> From  Robert S gmail.com>,  
>  on Fri, 16 May 2008 17:53:31 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>

>>On 17 May, 00:02, FACE today.net> wrote:

>>> What Hitler was demanding was not unreasonable. He wanted the
>>> German-speaking areas of Europe under German authority. He had just annexed
>>> Austria, which was German-speaking, without bloodshed. There were two more
>>> small pieces of Germanic territory: the free city of Danzig and the
>>> Sudetenland, a border area of what is now the Czech Republic.

>

>>> We live in an era when you do not change national borders for these sorts of
>>> reasons. But in 1938 it was different. Germany’s eastern and western borders
>>> had been redrawn 19 years before—and not to its benefit. In the democracies
>>> there was some sense of guilt with how Germany had been treated after World
>>> War I. Certainly there was a memory of the “Great War.” In 2008, we have
>>> entirely forgotten World War I, and how utterly unlike any conception of
>>> “The Good War” it was. When the British let Hitler have a slice of ...

>On May 17, 2:16 am, FACE today.net> wrote:

>> From  Robert S gmail.com>,  
>>  on Fri, 16 May 2008 17:53:31 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>
>>

>>>On 17 May, 00:02, FACE

> With a good bit of talk recently about hitler liberals and leftists, this
> looked to be of interest.........
>
> " Seattle Times Editor: 'Hitler's Demands Were Not Unreasonable'
>
> Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:14:14 pm PST
>
> Seattle Times editorial writer Bruce Ramsey, in an effort to defend Barack
> Obama against President Bush’s “appeasement” speech, actually ends up
> defending Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, and the Anschluss (the annexation of
> Austria): Bush, and His Use of ‘Appeasement’. "
>
> http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/edcetera/2008/05/bush_and_his_u...

> In article
> m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
>

>>> In a few months, in early 1939, Hitler ordered the invasion of what is now
>>> the Czech Republic‹that is, territory that was not German. Then it was
>>> obvious that a deal with him was worthless. And so when Bush recalls the
>>> unnamed senator who, in September 1939, lamented that he had not been able
>>> to talk to Hitler, he hits an easy target. But the moment of September 1939
>>> is nothing like today.

>

>>> In September 1939, when Germany started the war, it had no just claim to any
>>> more territory.

>

>> It had a just claim to the Polish Corridor,

>
> hardly.  The inhabitants of the Corridor were mostly Polish...