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Merkel: we were unprepared for refugee influx in 2015
thelocal.de ^ | 9/19/16

Posted on 09/19/2016 6:56:13 AM PDT by pabianice

Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged Monday that there would be no repeat of last year's "chaotic" border opening to refugees, after a stinging loss for her party in Berlin elections.

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Even as she defended the "political and ethical" decision to let in one million asylum seekers in 2015 in the face of a potential humanitarian catastrophe, Merkel admitted mistakes that she would avoid in future.

"If I could, I would turn back time many, many years to better prepare myself, the federal government and all those in positions of responsibility for the situation we were rather unprepared for in the late summer of 2015," Merkel said.

Merkel, who has been in office since 2005, was speaking to reporters after a dismal showing for her conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) in Berlin state elections Sunday, two weeks after a drubbing for the party in another regional poll.

In an unusually frank opening statement, Merkel said the errors included a long-standing refusal to accept Germany's transformation in the postwar decades into a multicultural society.

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To: pabianice

Merkel is a globalist, just as Obama and the Bush clan are globalists. Sovereign nations are an inconvenience to those who want to break down nationalism and breed a brand of humanity that the Power Class can manage more easily. George Bush called it the “New World Order.” “Democracy” will only be allowed if it furthers this lofty goal, held by many of our presidents, including Woodrow Wilson with his League of Nations that became the UN. The Founders would be grief-stricken that we have been suckered into trading our promise of independence, won with the blood of better men, for this bowl of globalist hash. This is why the political class hates Trump, because his brand of brash Americanism undermines the “progress” they’ve made in moving the next generation to global serfdom.


21 posted on 09/19/2016 7:23:35 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Tennessee Nana

She was the opposite of unprepared. She rolled out the welcome mat.


22 posted on 09/19/2016 7:23:54 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: pabianice
The witch single handedly aided in the further destruction of Europe and now she says they were unprepared...what a genius!!! s/
23 posted on 09/19/2016 7:25:50 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory ... Thomas Jefferson)
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To: pabianice
Merkel lights fires and then complains that there were insufficient fire fighting resources and preparation.

Question for German Freepers: Is the word "merkel" German for "idiot"?

24 posted on 09/19/2016 7:26:42 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you should have endorsed. Big mistake.)
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To: CaptainK

She should be tried & placed in front of a firing squad.


25 posted on 09/19/2016 7:28:19 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory ... Thomas Jefferson)
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To: pabianice

“We” ???????????

“We” ??????????

“DU” as in YOU!!!


26 posted on 09/19/2016 7:30:28 AM PDT by ZULU (Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
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To: pabianice

When she is dragged out of office, she needs to be held accountable for all the Germans killed, raped and otherwise injured by the Muslim invaders she brought into the country.


27 posted on 09/19/2016 7:40:53 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: pabianice
Merkel: we were unprepared for refugee influx in 2015

So Frau Merkel, after being warned it was nothing more than invasion, you persisted and continue to this day. What happened to that superior German intelligence?

28 posted on 09/19/2016 8:12:33 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (When satan's sister calls you "DEPLORABLE", you know you're on the right path!)
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To: pabianice

“”If I could, I would turn back time many, many years...”

Umm, German chancellors shouldn’t talk about wishing they could turn back time. Just saying...


29 posted on 09/19/2016 8:28:18 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: pabianice

Shut up, Merkel. You rolled out the red carpet for them.


30 posted on 09/19/2016 8:40:12 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: pabianice

Poor Frau Merkel. Somebody should have warned her that bringing in hundreds of thousands of unvetted Muzz could be dangerous/problematical. Oh, many did, but she ignored the warnings.


31 posted on 09/19/2016 8:43:35 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: pabianice

Was just reading an article from Wall Street Journal about Merkel’s ongoing efforts to brow-beat companies to offer ‘migrant’ internships and full-time jobs.

In the past year, during which time 736,000 migrants were welcomed in:

Continental AG has taken on 30 interns, thought they were hoping for 50.

Deutsche Post has filled 235 internships out of 1000 available.

Lufthansa (thank God) has hired none.

The idiotic, hectoring Merkel government has hired...five.


32 posted on 09/19/2016 9:01:35 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: pabianice
Unprepared?

What was your first clue?

33 posted on 09/19/2016 9:20:53 AM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: pabianice

Doubling down on stupidity and treason at the most fundamental level.

She, and ‘leaders’ like her, and enablers like Soros, should hang.


34 posted on 09/19/2016 9:22:12 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (One party feigns virtue, the other flaunts its corruption. May God reward both as they deserve.)
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