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2004-02-06 Europe

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Posted by Jarhead 2004-02-06 9:38:51 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Any unexplained stranglings in the area?

Posted by mojo 2004-2-6 10:30:03 AM|| 2004-2-6 10:30:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I kept expecting to see "Rumsfeld met with a blogger named 'True German Ally' for lunch before leaving for Poland..."

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-2-6 10:32:35 AM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-2-6 10:32:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I will attend the conference :)
Won't be lunch I guess but a handshake :)

Posted by True German Ally 2004-2-6 10:53:17 AM|| 2004-2-6 10:53:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 TGA - Cool! At least you won't have to eat rubber chicken, heh. Rummy would do well to enlist some wise experienced folks, such as yourself, to translate between the press and realities. Your press is as agenda-driven as ours - and apparently just as blindered by their liberal background. Such advice would pay off in the reduction of wasted motion.

Have fun!

Posted by .com 2004-2-6 11:17:50 AM|| 2004-2-6 11:17:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Say hello to Rummy for us, TGA!

Posted by Mike 2004-2-6 11:22:55 AM|| 2004-2-6 11:22:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd like to see Rummy say something like, "gee if you guys don't feel UN supported enough to get us troops to help in Iraq, the least you could do is help us in Afghanistan"

Posted by mhw 2004-2-6 11:24:35 AM|| 2004-2-6 11:24:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 If I get the chance I will mention Rantburg to him... but I guess at least his aides are reading it already!

Posted by True German Ally 2004-2-6 11:34:16 AM|| 2004-2-6 11:34:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 mhw--There are Germans deployed to Afghanistan. Have been for some time. It's just Iraq that they have problems supporting, but they did loan our Marines some Fuchs NBC recon vehicles in the beginning of the conflict.

Posted by Dar 2004-2-6 1:25:03 PM|| 2004-2-6 1:25:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Dar, I wasn't aware that Germany had loaned the Fuchs-Panzers to the Marines. That's good. I do know they had a least six German Fuchs teams in Kuwait during the drive Baghdad. They inspected the Iraqi missles that landed in Kuwait for signs of ABC. And I can't find it on the web, but I remember reading somewhere, probably a German magazine, that a Fuchs team actually went into Iraq to inspect suspicious chemical stores.

Posted by GK 2004-2-6 2:04:51 PM|| 2004-2-6 2:04:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I'll bet TGA is gonna be quite an asset in my next 6 degrees of association game.

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-6 2:41:50 PM|| 2004-2-6 2:41:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 That was rather undiplmatic of Rumsfeld - making our allies travel all the way to Germany, rather than meeting them in their own countries.

Posted by A Jackson 2004-2-6 6:42:31 PM|| 2004-2-6 6:42:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Good luck on your meeting with Rummy, TGA. The hopes of all Rantburgers are pinned upon our number 1 lobbyist, TGA! Also, see if you can get a direct feed established from DOD to Fred's server.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-2-6 8:25:54 PM|| 2004-2-6 8:25:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Rummy has a major problem on his hands. NATO is a military alliance. More and more, the European nations have no real military power. An "alliance" where only one of the partners has any ability to contribute isn't much of an alliance. Canada's armed forces are pathetic. The armed forces of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and a half-dozen other NATO members couldn't contribute two full-size, fully-equipped regiments. Spain, Portugal, and Italy have the manpower, but lack really modern equipment. The same goes for the new member-nations of the former Warsaw Pact. Germany has a reasonable military, but is so hobbled by its constitution as to make it virtually unusable except in Central Europe. The less said about the French, the better. NATO isn't dead, but it's not the liveliest "alliance" around, either.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-2-6 11:01:11 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-2-6 11:01:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 TGA, good luck on the conference.I seldom post comments, though am a regular reader.Thanks for being our true ally.Sometimes I wish you're an american.

Posted by Sonnie 2004-2-6 11:30:31 PM|| 2004-2-6 11:30:31 PM|| Front Page Top

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