You folks never have recovered from the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, have you?
If I recall the statistics correctly, 90% of the Jews in Germany were exterminated during WW II. 80% of the Jews in Italy were saved. You rode out the conflagration in relative peace and comfort, losing perhaps 4% of your population. The Poles lost 25% of their population.
During the Cold War, your "intellectuals" were Stalin's groveling, giddy groupies. Ho Chi Mihn and Pol Pot were nursed in your bosom.
You may have legitimate questions about the Iraq situation. Your heritage, however, makes it impossible for us to take you, or your quibbles, seriously.
tom
(My mothers folks are Ukrainian, BTW)