Iraq 2006 - Germany 1944-1946

Recent events have been portrayed as new, as below shows nothing has changed.
Earlier:
http://stackja19451204.blogspot.com/2005/12/germany-1946.html
From the first sight in the spring of unplowed fields, shutdown coal mines, and ruined cities, the winter to come had loomed ominously in the minds of those who would be responsible for administering the occupied country. In June, predicting a barren winter for Europe, the Potter-Hyndley Mission contemplated a possible need "to preserve order by shooting" [emphasis added] in Germany.
http://stackja19451204.blogspot.com/2006/01/aachen-winter-1944.html
Earlier in the month the SS newspaper, Das Schwarze Korps, had written that there would be no German administration under the occupation because any official who collaborated with the enemy could count on being dead within a month.

Google News Headlines: Iraq - 3 Jan 2006
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Toronto Star, Canada - 9 hours ago
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