Algeria wants apology for VE Day massacre

While Bush is busy ignoring 1945 realities and criticizing US policies in post-war Eastern Europe, one legacy that is worthy of criticizm has not been touched. The US and Allied countries made a massive mistake when they alllowed the continued colonial domination around the world. Algeria is right, France should apologize for the May 8, 1945 massacre as well as helping with the mine clearing program in Algeria and I suspect that with a little prodding, France will take action. In another losing battle to hold on to a colony, Vietnam lost over 2 Million people fighting for independence in a war that did not have to happen. Looking at the proxy wars that occured all over the globe during the Cold War, both the US and the Soviet Union played their part in dragging millions of people into wars that served little purpose.

If Bush wants to pick on post-war failures, that's where he ought to focus. A lot more people died and suffered in the developing world than anywhere else during that period of time.