"Donal" wrote in message

How hypocritical!

How unsurprising, coming from an America-hater, like yourself.

I bet that you are able to claim that you beat the Russians in the race to
the Moon.

Yes. It's true, after all.

Do you know the names of any of the scientists who developed your first
rockets?

Herr Doktor Werner von Braun, a German national.

IIRC, your leading scientist was a chap called Von Braun. You rescued him
from Hitler at the end of WW2 so that you could develop a space programme
based on German technology.

Yes. A lot of Americans had problems with the concept of using the German
scientists from Penemunde following the war. But then there were American
industrialists doing business with the Nazis during the war itself, so the
arguments were essentially moot.

The current success of the Cassini/Huygens mission is a direct result of
research that Hitler funded.

Bull****. You expect me, or anyone else for that matter, to believe that
the research since the 40s played anything but a 99% role in that mission.
LOL.

Your attitude is a direct result of PC
thinking.

Whatever.

Hitler was an evil man. That doesn't mean that everything that
he did was evil.

It's difficult to be accommodating to the accomplishments of such a man in
light of his *other accomplishments.* It's not an intellectual
position--it's visceral, and that makes it human. Like it or not, most
humans would rather Adoph Hitler had never been born.

The Pope is a Good man ... that doesn't mean that he has
never done anything that he would be ashamed of.

To compare the Pope with Hitler is inane. But that's something I've come to
expect from you.

The world isn't black and white. There are shades of grey.

Where Hitler and his regime are concerned, there is very little white
showing. You can laud the man for what you perceive as his praiseworthy
accomplishments. I'll just condemn him as one of the most evil men ever to
have lived. And we'll leave it at that.

Max