Nazis and Saddam

Rating: Null/10 (28 November 2003)

I've watched Schindler's List twice now, a fine movie and a reasonably accurate record of those events. Events? Hmm what a curious word to use. The sheer horror, brutality and inhumane treatment of Jewish people is a scar that Germany must bear for all eternity. So why, in God's name did the USA just sit by and do nothing. America has always had a large jewish population and reports of the holocaust must have filtered through to the authorities. In 2003 the USA goes to war on Iraq and the Saddam Hussein regime. Nothing can ever compare Saddam's reign with that of Adolf Hitler. And yet, the Americans did nothing. It took the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the US Fleet to awaken them, but how do you tell millions of Jews including so many, many children that only the Japanese attack was important enough for America to enter the war.