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2006-06-16 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2006-06-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What bullshit!

Posted by Captain America 2006-06-16 00:36|| 2006-06-16 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 I think Patton said "The Hun is either at your feet or at your throat." Looks like they've assumed the supine position.

Posted by Grumble Thrirong5141 2006-06-16 01:42|| 2006-06-16 01:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Is this true? If not, then let's hear it from some reliable source.

If so, then just go the fuck home. It is farce for component forces to expect to pick and choose what missions or responsibilities they will accept. Your decision renders your force unreliable and deleterious.

We recognize it's a leadership problem, the individual soldiers aren't cowards, but military forces must act cooperatively, not as individuals. Thanks to your gutless leadership, you're less than worthless.

Be gone. Stay gone.

Where and when the rubber meets the road, you'd never know Shroeder's gone.

Posted by Sholurt Clomoling7310 2006-06-16 02:58|| 2006-06-16 02:58|| Front Page Top

#4 having a german force deployed abroad in a country where a war is happening is enough of a stretch. I wouldnt expect them to go beyond their reconstruction and peacekeeping in the north for the offensives in the south, not at this point. Im glad theyre there, in the north, freeing Brits and Canadians for the fighting.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-06-16 09:51|| 2006-06-16 09:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Apparently they have also been of substantial assistance in intelligence activities that don't garner the headlines.

A third of the Germans are from the East and were raised to assume everyone is a spy and the enemy is the Americans. The place is a mess. The worst thing BushI ever did was to allow reunification.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-06-16 10:32|| 2006-06-16 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Pardon me gentleman, but having the Germans as wuzzes after a couple hundred years of militarism and the high points of the 20th Century [WWI and WWII] is not a bad idea. But, that just may be me.

Posted by Ebbiling Phereter5196 2006-06-16 15:44|| 2006-06-16 15:44|| Front Page Top

#7 The problem is not that they are wuzzes. The problem is that they free ride off of our defense investment while at the same time adopting offensively consdescending attitudes towards us. TV and news magazines that are owned in part by the German government spew vile anti-American hatred -- along with distored reporting of events.

Posted by lotp 2006-06-16 15:46|| 2006-06-16 15:46|| Front Page Top

#8 This is different from the American media? How?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-06-16 15:57|| 2006-06-16 15:57|| Front Page Top

#9 The German press are much worse than the Americans in terms of assumptions and willingness to believe blatant lies. They make no pretense to being balanced or fair -- every news outlet has a known position and sticks to it regardless of reality, like the French outlets. And they are dreadfully self-rightious about the whole thing -- I don't even want to think how many times when we lived over there, friends would say the most absurdly obnoxious things about Americans, then follow up with, "Oh, but not you, trailing wife! One would never even guess you were American!" (Which was true -- apparently on first impression I appeared local, wherever I was people assumed I was from the next village or two over.) And yet Germans nontheless believe everything they read in print or see on the television news, much like Americans believed Walter Cronkite a generation ago.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-16 16:23|| 2006-06-16 16:23|| Front Page Top

#10 What happened to the so-called "acceptable" war in Afganistan (as compared to our so-called imperialist invasion of Iraq)?

A new century but the same pussies.

Posted by Captain America 2006-06-16 23:08|| 2006-06-16 23:08|| Front Page Top

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