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  • Some Peace Movement (Where are Germany's peaceniks now?)

    06/17/2006 7:16:00 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 18 replies · 923+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | June 26, 2006 | Jeffrey Gedmin
    Berlin EARLIER THIS MONTH, several hundred people gathered in Nuremberg, the site of an Iran-Mexico soccer match, for a protest. Their concern was that Iran's president might fly to Germany to attend the World Cup match. According to a German peace activist newsletter, the crowd of protesters was most unimpressive, a bunch of losers really. Those denouncing Iran's head of state were a motley crew of "Christian Crazies," "anti-German Germans," and "cheering Persians," the last being "loyalists of the mass-murdering regime of the shah."It's not the first time I have wondered about Germany's real peace activists. Speaking of mass murder,...