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[Bill Greenwood]

Zack, sorry to see a thread closed. I think Floats brought up a very good point about the alliance between Hitler and Stalin for 2 years at the start of the war. I really didnt know much about that, went back to check on it and learned more about it. Apparetly Stalin was trying to ally with Britain and France in 39 but was not accepted and made a deal with Htiler.
Certainly a good thing that Hitler made the huge mistake of attacking Russia, maybe he was tempted when they saw how badly the Russians had fared when attacking the small country of Finland, (correction)..
Russia was a huge asset to the Allies in the rest of the war, took a lot of losses and took a huge toll of German troops, eventually had a significant air force after serving mostly as targets for Me 109s at the start of the war.

I am sorry that two posters tried to make this topic about a contest or critisism of one candidate, even at this late date trying to ride a very old horse named WMD.
My post was not to single out any candidate to debate about but to note a very big change in how we view all this now.

As for not being about warbirds, my post starts off with Lindberg re WWII and continues with Mcain who of course flew in Nam. And just as airpower and warbirds were a huge part of WWII, now even more so, with our current military actions which are often almost all air bombing with little ground troops.
And the catylysts for all this was the 9-11 attacks which used airliners as very effective warbirds.