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So, following Merkel's Bushesque logic, should I expect German soldiers in the Iraqi theatre of the "GWOT" anytime soon? Coalition of the...errr...willing betwetters and all.

Good to see the Warsaw Pact mentality is alive and well in a country other than Poland. Nice of the Germans to have picked an Ossi, though too bad they didn't pick one from our camp...

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Sun Sep 16th, 2007 at 12:53:40 AM EST
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Merkel is chancellor today because in 2002 her party rival Edmund Stoiber refused to rule out a role in Iraq - giving Gerhard Schröder the election. She's definitely not going there.

The domestic context is that the current Afghanistan mission (in a supporting role) is up for legislative renewal, and something like 2/3 of the electorate is agin it.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Sun Sep 16th, 2007 at 06:33:17 AM EST
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O I know, only tickling the subject a bit.

But the rhetoric is quite "global war on terror," especially the intervention in a state to fight non-state actors who may or may not be there.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Sun Sep 16th, 2007 at 09:36:32 PM EST
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