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Subject: Re: The Shame of the President
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Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 12:54:06 EST
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> 
> "I think there is nothing wrong with visiting
> that cemetery where those young men are victims
> of Nazism also, even though they were fighting
> in the German uniform. They were victims just as surely
> as the victims in the concentration camps."
>           -President Reagan, NYTimes 4/19/85
> -------------------------------------------------
>          If a Contra in Nicaragua can be a "freedom fighter",
> then why can't the Nazis be "victims"?  Welcome to the
> logic of the President of the United States!
>                        Andy Berman

I'll buy Reagan's reasoning, but would not comment
on merits of his trip schedule. 
When at age 16 you are drafted by the Nazi Germany army
and sent to be shredded - you are in sad shape.
Germans who were 16 in 1944 have been submitted to
overwhelming Nazi propaganda since age of 5.
Even if you are intelligent enough at 16 to suspect,
are you determined enough to oppose the regime?

Of, course, the above applies to rather limited number of
people.

Remark about Nicaragua is instance of pure question-begging.
   				Mike Cherepov