So many here maintain that Powell was against the war and that the other members of the security council where right in not getting involved. His comparison is timely in that on the 6th we mark the most important date in the history of the modern world, the landing in Normandy.

Powell compares Iraq war to fight against Nazis

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PARIS (AFP) - As US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) headed to Europe for celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) compared the war in Iraq (news - web sites) to the fight against Nazi Germany.


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"I think we can compare the fight against the Nazis and the fight against Communism with the fight that we are now all engaged in against terrorism. And Iraq is a part of that battlefield," Powell said in an interview on France 3 television.


He said Iraq was not the only battlefield, however, citing the recent attacks in Saudi Arabia and the March 11 train bombings in Madrid, as well as the Istanbul bombings last year and the Bali blast in 2002.


"This is a new threat that we face and we have to approach it in the same way, with all of us working together, a great alliance of people who believe in peace, and freedom and the democratic process, to say to terrorists: 'You will not succeed. We will fight you'," said Powell.


Bush left Washington Thursday for Italy to attend a ceremony marking Rome's liberation by American troops on June 4, 1944, before heading to France to mark the June 6 landing of Allied troops on Normandy's beaches.