Dispensing with the expenses for

injured soldiers in sending them back to Iraq reveals the hidden face of warfare - let alone that the civilians of Iraq have to face the mortal danger of such politics.

Also because of the implications of the Iraq war it is not possible to publish in the US the one book existing on how American military tribunals dealt with the madness of soldiers as far back as during WW II built entirely on totally neglected records in the War archives. Which means the tip of the iceberg.

Written by the wonderfully courageous American criminologist, J Robert Lilly of Northern Kentucky University and the UK Durham University,this harrowing portrait of the hidden face of war has the ominous title Taken by Force: Rape and American Soldiers in the European Theater of Operations during World War II (England France Germany) 1942-1945.

Books exists so far only in a French translation as "La Face cachée des GI´s" published in 2003 by Payot in Paris with an excellent foreword by Fabrice Virgili. He stresses rightfully that no other country has had the courage to dig in their own archives to tell the truth on the behaviour of their troops sent to war.

You greatbig wonderful Americans you seem unaware of what you have done for immigrants and in particular women. Since your great nation began. 1. The first example in the world of a money economy. 2. The possibility for divorce for everyone.

For Europeans 150 years ago and on this was big deal and it is sad the subject is poorly investigated probably because women were the great winners. In Europe divorce was difficult if not impossible for the lower classes - in the US it was possible for everyone let alone that a divorce woman or an unmarried woman could thanks to the money economy support herself independent of men provided she had some basic

household skills. She could work in American families learning the language and the ways and getting paid for it let alone respected. This is a tremendous revolution.

When speaking of divorce never ever forget what a liberator of women the US is in combination with its money economy. It still is. A great cultural heritage strangely rarely put in its proper context.

I think the complaint about the boyfriend keeping the key to his apartment incredible. Why should he give the key to a woman clearly beyond reason. Her behaviour shows she is stark mad.

Obviously she needs somewhere to sleep as most mad people so quite generous of him to take her on.

Nonetheless why live in the US as if it were Mauretania i.e. a traditional slave society?

The mad should be better cared for.

What an absurd reply to Baby Maker´s outburst.

Baby Maker is one big scream about her dissatisfaction with her life and for this a baby is never ever the cure.

A woman´s one great capital is her freedom not her uterus.

Baby Maker should quit her depressing environment and not stay on. She has guts for that and for trying an entirely different life with challenges that makes her happy with herself. Strongly suggest she moves abroad, preferably Paris. I will treat her to champagne once she is here. I promise.

Beats me how one can allow oneself being exploited by

a mad person. One cannot avoid mad people but one can surely keep them from settling into one´s life.

I think the fault lies is not with the mother-in-law as she is clearly mad but with the lady having written this letter to Cary Tennis making herself the helpless victim.

One shudders

Why is the American memory so short? A book has been written by an American sociologist professor which cannot be published in the US presently because it is supposed to be demoralising considering what is going on in Irak. It is published however in France where this brave and honourable professor reminds his readers of findings in the US Army archives on rape and murder among civilians after invasion in Normandy l944.

Reading the book it seems nothing has changed: gangs of drunken drug-using soldiers spread fear among the civilians. First rape was reported 6 hours after the invasion of Normandy had taken place. Eisenhower was very severe about troop relations with civilians and rapists were after being judged in US military courts executed.

However there was much else taking place showing the liberators were a pretty dangerous bunch elite or not.

Eissenhower had his HQ in the city of Reims where the German capitulation was signed May 7 1945. During a recent luncheon in Reims with some top figures there I was given additional

reasons for why the Americans were genuinely hated by the liberated. However I fear the worst victims was German women, their story remains untold. Enough that Eisenhower executed rapists in France, in Germany there was no punishment at all for such abonimable crimes.

And the Americans were not alone in this primitive attitude of course. The Russians took rape just as natural a freedom for its armies let alone the British and the French (among the cruellest).

I myself am not German, not American, not British, not French however I live in France and am a trained historian.

And I am by the way a woman.

Television series encouraging girls of any age to believe that the meaning of a short life should be finding a man and - as the term goes - settle down and have children should be forbidden in the name of public health.

Women who stay single lead healthier richer lives whatever the size of their bank account.

The traditional fate for women is that of a loser.

Why encourage women to be losers?

The man benefits from marriage and children, never women.

It is in black and white in a recent Swedish survey.

Surprised anyone?