Godwin's Law and today's insurance industry "report"

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

When I heard the insurance industry was moving against the Baucus bill it largely dictated in the first place the first thing that came to mind was Stalin's actions vis-a-vis Poland. And the second thing that came to mind was Japan's actions after Pearl Harbor...

One of the few comical things about Hitler was the rampant unreliability and duplicity of his allies.

When your allies are belligerent dictators, or health insurance companies, the alliance just doesn't end well.


1939: Hitler secretly agrees with Stalin to partition Poland. Hitler invades from the west. Stalin... does nothing! D'oh! Britain and France declare war on Germany. Stalin plays the innocent and twiddles his thumbs while the Polish military rushes to the west to be destroyed by Germany. After Germany has done the fighting Russia saunters in to take its pre-arranged half of Poland, while pretending he's doing Poland a favor.

1941: Germany invades Russia. Later Japan decides to bomb Hawaii. Hitler, desperate for a second front in Russian conflict, agrees to declare war on America if Japan declares war on Russia. Many Americans only wanted to declare war on Japan, but with Germany acting in support of Japan we declared war on her also. Japan then declr... oh, actually Japan didn't declare war on Russia after all. D'oh!

1943: The allies attack Sicily. Hitler's greatest ally, Italy, surrenders pretty much on the spot. D'oh! Hitler has to divert German forces to defend ostensible ally Italy.

[PretzelWarrior]

1. Godwins?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. Thank You - corrected

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