Incidentally it is nonsense to equate the aggression of Iraq under Saddam with Germany's in the period 1933-39, not least because much of Saddam's aggression was encouraged by the playground bully (your ultimate arbiter), right up to (and even including, by some accounts) his invasion of Kuwait. Hitler's was in defiance of such opinion - albeit funded to a significant degree by American capital

Actually Fionn, it was called appeasement.

Gareth