[Sonny M]

Not to be condescending but it doesn't take a genius to see or know that the Baath party which espouses pan-arabism and socialism is a form (more purer then most actually) is an incarnation of nationalist socialism or Nazism.

The baath party of syria and formerly iraq had a doctrine and platform beliefs that evolved from the original nazi beliefs.

In a amusing bit of irony, alot of left wingers actually semi-condoned the baath party (including support for President Bashir of Syria and formerly Saddam Hussein) while cursing those who oppose them as "nazis".

[johnb838]

National Socializm (Naziizm or Fascism) or International Socialism (Communism) it's all the same to me. I HATE FREAKING SOCIALISTS OF ALL STRIPES. power hungry death cult.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Nice summary.

[jonrick46]

Michael Aflaq, founder of the Ba'ath Party was a contributor to a Communist newspaper during his student days at the University of Sorbonne in Paris, France. During those turbulent years of the 1930s, Aflag embraced Naziism and socialist fascism as a means to further the cause of Arab nationalism. Michael Aflaq would soon become the mentor to Saddam Hussein, who led the Ba'athist coup in Iraq in 1958.