Let's try re-writing that just a bit and see how it looks, and, oh, imagine this is 1945 and not 2003:
Tthanks, you might want to give, that you are not Iraqi Italian. Be grateful you did not go from brutal scowling despot (Mussolini) who at least kept the damn lights on trains running to brutish occupying army no one asked for that is right now laying waste to whatever remains of your once proud oil-rich culture-rich nation.
Seeing those sentiments in other contexts certainly gives a little insight into the author and the validity of his points.
Indeed it does...