[Zon]

Temptation overcame resistance.

[xzins]

Germany certainly did have WMDs, both chemical and biological. They intentionally chose not to use them because they didn't want to deal with WMD retaliation.

Even in WWI the use of gas was prevalent.

They even had a vigorous nuclear research program. They simply lost the race...as much as anything because they murdered some of their best people in concentration camps and forced the others to run into exile.

[Strategerist]

Problem is you're completely wrong.

Nazi Germany invented nerve gas, including Sarin. They had ENORMOUS stockpiles of nerve agent, over 12,000 tons of it. Which, interestingly, they never used militarily.

(Incidentally the Allies had huge stockpiles of chemical weapons in Europe as well,, which they never used either, but an American ship carrying mustard gas that was bombed by the Luftwaffe in an Italian port ended up killing 69 people.)

[syriacus]

I'm actually waiting for Kerry to say Bush didn't invade Iraq soon enough. It's the only option he has left.

Since Kerry is a "man of compassion," you'd think he would have worried about the starving children there who were being given rotten food.

Then again, maybe Kerry thought the Iraqi children could be nourished with Supplefer if Saddam stayed in power longer.

• The Heinz factories in Italy manufacture Supplefer for malnourished children.
• Kofi Annan got a humanitarian award from the Heinz Foundation for the UN's distribution of Supplefer to children in several countries (other than Iraq.)
• At the same time, the Heinz Foundation gave Annan an opportunity to criticize Bush when he delivered his Heinz Distinguished Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh.

You can see a picture of Annan delivering his lecture at the left, in which Annan is standing in front of enlarged UPitt, UN, and Heinz flags. Click on it if you'd like to see the Heinz and UN flags more clearly .

[atomicpossum]

And let's not overlook the technology to deliver his chemical and biological weapons with the V-1 & V-2.

[Poohbah]

Adolph Hitler had no WMDs, it was all a war for oil, and a bunch of neo-cons used FDR as their puppet (c8

[Mr. Jeeves]

Well, the Left liked Hitler, too, until he turned on Stalin.

If we could have goaded Saddam into attacking France first, we wouldn't be having all these arguments. ;)

[vj2004]

It has also been reported on the History Channel that in the last months of WW2 that Nazi Germany was shipping radioactive material to Japan. The Japanese were planning a "dirty bomb" strike against a US city on the west coast, likely San Francisco, in September 1945. One u-boat (destined for Japan) was captured in May 1945 by the US Navy off the American east coast with the radioactive material on board.

[quadrant]

There is no real difference between the two.
Saddam used poison gas against innocent civilians who lived in villages, and Hitler used poison gas against civilians who had been herded into gas chambers.

[bmwcyle]

There is not connection between between evil with iron crosses and evil with rags on their heads. /sarcasm

[johnb838]

Ask 14 million Jews, Slavic Christians, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and other unwanted humanity and their families whether he had Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Actually, the machine gun was one of the original WMD, along with the poison gas of WWI, but the machine gun, with its ability to chew up huge numbers of enemy in a massed charge certainly qualifies.

There was this little cannon I saw on Wild West Tech that they used on the indians in the 1880s. It had a cute little shell and you could load and fire about 15 rounds per minute. They demo'd it. A bad arsed little WMD.