Wolfgang, It goes without saying that the US, Brits and the French [why no mention of the French] armies which occupied your country after WW2, by all accounts, behaved well.

They were under strict orders to do so an example had to be shown to the Soviets, and the German population had seen enough of war to comply with whatever rules were laid down.

Viet Nam and Iraq are two entirely different matters, the behaviour of the US and it`s forces of war in both countries have turned the vast majority of the world against them.

Living in Ireland for the past 68 years, few if any would have had a bad word to say about the USA, but, at the present time it is an entirely different story, the Bush government has left a legacy of hate which seems to have reverberated around the world.

Yes Wolfgang, we in the north of Ireland who have had the misfortune to be under an occupying army have plenty of reasons to despise our occupiers, and as for those other countries that down the years have suffered death and destruction from those "disiciplined forces" of occupation, they too have suffered and also wondered, at the cruelty of man.