[srm913]

"US leader fails to win over Germans"

That's because winning over Germans requires tanks, amphibious invasions and air raids.

[WestTexasWend]

"...Germany is no longer an importer of security, we're an exporter of security."

LOL...is that a reference to Rumsfeld's looming troop realignments?

[traderrob6]

We did too good of a job pacifisizing the Germans, turned them into a nation of pansy @$$ girly men. more here

[popdonnelly]

I was sitting in a coffee shop one day during the Elian Gonzalez controversy. A German tourist took a seat at the table next to me. As he read the paper about the furor created by the possibility of sending Elian back to Cuba, he began a loud complaint so everyone could here. He said it showed how self-righteous America was - typically American.

Now, I am generally not into "manners", but when I go to a foreign country I don't make it a point to insult the country and its citizens in a loud manner. But Mr. Kraut did want everyone in provincial America to know he thought himself morally and philosophically superior to his American hosts.

[Bommer]

That's because winning over Germans requires tanks, amphibious invasions and air raids.

Not anymore. Pull our troops out of Germany and their economy will go into a free fall!

[Grzegorz 246]

Hmm

[DAC22]

"That's because winning over Germans requires tanks, amphibious invasions and air raids"

No truer words were ever said. Whether it is Nazi's or Leftest, they are push overs for ideologues. Hopefully it doesn't take another ass kicking to get them on a straight path.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Screw Europe! The Germans don't like any war that they don't start and the French have a long policy of "Surrender first and ask questions later". We should focus our friendship on the appreciative, newly free, former Communist blocs countries and not on the manipulative whiners and thieves of "Old Europe".

[Vision]

US Leader Fails To Win Over Germans

And in other important news, it's going to snow tonight in Baltimore

[cynicom]

Germany a partner??? In what???

[HungarianGypsy]

I had a pen pal who said he did not care who our president was as long as Alan Greenspan was around. Oddly, though, after he made a comment about U.S./German relations, I said that at least we don't call them names like we do the French. He hasn't written since.

[shrinkermd]

By 2015 40% of Germany will be Turk. Why worry about the aging welfare staters?

[hermgem]

When Germans are down their kissing of... is ongoing.
When up, superiority coupled with arrogant behavior has no bounds.
Lets see how in several years down the road their current 12.1% unemployment figure plays out.
At current graduates from High Schools to Universities march straight onto the unemployment line.
The wake up call will not surface till the next generation follows joins the idleness sectors.

[Mark17]

But a poll by the Marshall Fund showed about 60 per cent of Germans disapproved 'very much' of the Bush administration.

Has there been a poll to tell how many of us disapprove of the German government?

[Malesherbes]

"It takes more than eight hours to repair a friendship." There was no friendship to repair. Schroeder and Fischer have both made careers of anti-Americanism.

One problem is that both the German and French leadership, and a lot of their population, think that their views represent all Europe. There are some places in Europe where people do not want to be led by either Germany or France.

[nkycincinnatikid]

"the encounters between Europe and America are reminiscent of a pair of lovers who are now separated"
Yeah! It seems the Deutsch can buy their own chocolate bars and nylons now. It pains me as German/Dutch American to say this but the Germans were perhaps never lovers, just whores.

[Spirited]

The best thing that could happen to Germany is for the US to move its entire military out and into Poland.

[Diva]

HAHAHAHA Thanks for the belly laugh, I enjoyed that. Its been a difficult day.