Colin, Japan and Germany are the results of "world war"... Ivory coast is a result of, well, internal strife.
Can't compare the two properly.
Can't even compare German to Iraq... the scale and situation just is no the same.
Getting back to the original topic, it turns out that Powell's source is once again "questionable"...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/19/...iran/index.html
Nice to have the media prove me right for having doubts.
Alex