Posted on 12/13/2003 8:49:36 AM PST by americanbychoice
Minister of Defense, Peter Struck has announced the closing of military bases and a decrease of American Soldiers in Germany. Their State Departement, Defence Ministry and American representatives are building a "Work group", announced Struck to Die Welt am Sonntag. After that,the American Secretary of Defense and Congress will decide in the Spring.
This site is only German AFAIK.
The first link brings you to the title page. You can see the article...."USA schließen Standorte"....4 articles down.
"WELT am Sonntag"....Title Page....USA schließen Standorte
The second link is linked to the article itself, but that brings me a page that requires a login page. It says you can read the article for free, but you have to register. I didn't sign up because I'm on a dial-up now and the connection is frustratingly slow for me.
"WAMS"....USA schließen Standorte
HTH
longjack
I don't care what language it's in. As it is, it's in German- a language I do understand, so this is not a bother. Still, the onus should be on the one who posts the article, not for every individual poster to go out and round up the article. This is why the "Post Article" page is formatted as it is with all the relevent fields for links, sources, author etc.
Worth a repeat.
"Ahh, we'll have to just rebuild them in another decade or so when the Islamics start building training camps in the cities they are taking over as we speak and we need to move the war on terror to the Islam-Euro front."
I do understand why we're getting out of Germany at the present time. However, people are forgetting the biggest infiltration of Islamics is in two places and it is driving them nuts: #1 UK, #2 France.
The frogs detest us because we kept them from learning how to speak German, the Germans, frogs and Russians were up to their elbows selling weapons and technology to Hussain who was a barbarious murderer.
What GWB is doing is clearly playing hardball with the "former allies".
We MAY have to "Rescue Them" Again!!
It SEEMS, They ar e "Children,"--even 'Tho their Culture is Older than Ours!!
Our Culture has "Grown Beyond" Theirs'
Doc
That is Patch Barracks-----headquarters for EUCOM.
It isn't going anywhere.
I agree.
I paraphrased an article I read in Germany's "Spiegel" about the EU-Constitution failure for a post in another thread:
FR....Chirac blames Blair as EU constitution talks collapse
Schroeder talks about those countries that negotiate with European integration in mind (i.e., his own Germany) vs. those that negotiate only through national egotism (i.e. Poland).
IMO, Germany/France's new tactic will be to be to represent the 'balkers' as nationalists who promote their own country's interests before European advancement. The justification for a renewed attempt at a EU constitution ratification will be based upon the premise of the necessity of avoiding a fiasco as the one that just occurred.
Reports I've read mention that Berlusconi described the atmosphere at the last meeting as "complete disagreement". I also read that an Euro representative from some Scandavian country said the constitution issue would probably be tabled until early 2005.
It remains to be seen if the issue is resurrected before then due to some crisis that requires rapid handling by all member countries, making the vote distribution issue a hot button item.
Again, JMO.
longjack
My son was born in Northern Germany two years ago. I used to go into the city to go to my ob-gyn. Upstairs was the ob-gyn's office, downstairs was a pediaticians's office. Every trip I made there for the entire ten months or so, I saw floods of Muslim women going in to either doctor. I would say at a ratio of about 8 to one.
Obviously this is true for the Democrats, Kennedy and Johnson, who got us into the Vietnam War and expanded it, but in no way does it tie into President Bush’s very successful handling of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
You are mistaken about this. We had been out of the country for two years. That team was just geting out the civilian staff at the embassy and it was only a few hueys that went over the side and one of those was blown of the deck. The press made it look much worse. You need to do a little work on the history of Viet Nam. We never lost a battle and did not loose in the field. The Democrats took over the Hill and cut off funding. You are quite wrong in your statements. It is all in the record if you care to look.
And this will most likely be the tipping point in the WOT. YOu should find some non-lib Viet Nam vets that server in the 68 to 71 period, particularly after Abrams took over. Your understanding of Viet Nam is strongly invluenced by leftist propaganda.
I don't think that we can ever afford to be that "right" again. Just like Iraq will turn out.
As you were typing this drivel, arete, The DNA of Iraq's captured Ho Chi Minh was being tested.
It is rare that someone writes a post that is already wrong, but with the capture of Saddam yesterday at 8:30 PM Iraq Time, 2:30 PM ET, 11:30AM PT, you've done the near-impossible with your 11:48AM PT post. Congratulations (excuse the momentary gloat).
Gloat done.
Oh, and Nam would have turned out similarly with a Republican president and the ability to refute the lies of the mainstream press we have today.
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