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Germany pledges to arm Kurd forces and ‘set aside taboos’ on Iraq military role
irishtimes.com ^ | Thu, Aug 21, 2014, 01:00 | Derek Scally

Posted on 08/20/2014 7:13:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin

After weeks of heated debate, he said Germany was prepared to go beyond existing promises to deliver protective vests, night-vision goggles and humanitarian aid. “This can include weapons,” Mr Steinmeier said at a press conference with German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen.

He said any shipments would be “closely co-ordinated” with EU partners and added Berlin was “aware of the risks”, namely where the weapons end up.

But Ms von der Leyen said it was crucial to halt the Islamic State campaign. “More important than the question of whether or which weapons we deliver is the readiness to set aside taboos and have an open discussion,” she told Die Zeit. “This is where we are at the moment.”

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1 posted on 08/20/2014 7:13:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Obama is content with the level of barbarity and brutality committed by ISIS.


2 posted on 08/20/2014 7:16:06 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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3 posted on 08/20/2014 7:26:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Alright. Germany’s getting back in the game. Maybe they will
go full blown militarization and build some really bada$$
stuff again and scare the hell out of the world.


4 posted on 08/20/2014 7:52:34 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: Slambat

The Germans are always a wildcard in world events. Smart and strange. My wife is 100% Austrian. I call her my mad-dog Hitler wife when she gets angry.


5 posted on 08/20/2014 8:39:29 PM PDT by WMarshal (Free citizen, never a subject or a civilian.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

OK, why can’t we terrify these murderers by dropping pork products all over them. They are barbarians, but we mustn’t offend them and their primitive religion? It’s insane.


6 posted on 08/20/2014 9:10:51 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: BenLurkin

Minister of foreign affairs and Teutonic wildlife, ‘Ursula’, looks like she might be hot.
Do you have any better photos of her setting forth her positions, say, in a bikini?


7 posted on 08/20/2014 9:59:12 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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Germany WILL, but obozo WON'T!

obozo will always protect his “homies, his muzzie brethren. obozo is a traitor, muzzie collaborator, and he sides with the enemies of the people of the USA. This is all by design, it is not a matter of obozo’s making poor choices about whom to support. When will this traitor be dragged out of our White House, tried and sentenced? obozo is an out and out traitor, a threat to this country. When will his military advisers, stand up to him and tell him NOOOOOOOOOO, we will not do your bidding...where is the Praetorian Guard for our time?

8 posted on 08/20/2014 11:01:03 PM PDT by itssme
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