Germany asks will Queen say sorry?

Reuters ^ | 10/29/04 | Alexandra Hudson

[Optimus Prime]

Talk about shameless. They inflicted HOW much suffering in WWII? And they're questioning the use of force employed to stop the atrocities they were behind? Boo, freaking, hoo.

[Bikers4Bush]

Have the germans ever apologized for bombing England? Have they ever apologized for murdering millions of Jews?

This is sickening.

[Little Ray]

Not a bloody chance. If you start a war, you endure the consequences. Just be grateful that we didn't implement the Morgenthau plan on your sorry butts.

[danneskjold]

This is a joke, right?

[wideawake]

I'm sure the Queen will apologize for Dresden as soon as Joschka Fischer and Gerhard Schroeder fall to the floor and lick the soles of her shoes while they apologize for what the Nazis did to Coventry.

And then Fred Goldman should apologize to OJ Simpson for letting his son hang out with OJ's ex-wife.

[ikka]

"Krautrage" said a headline in the Daily Star tabloid.

That is a pretty funny one. When I worked with a German, he became angry over some technical problem and was frustrated; so I joked to him and the rest of the group about "Thomas is a sour Kraut." He didn't get it but everyone else laughed.

[danneskjold]

Hey Germany...You think Dresden was bad? Talk to Japan...

[Noachian]

Sorry for what?

The Germans should be asked if they are sorry for all the misery they inflicted on the rest of the world by backing a dictator.

Liberals are the same all over the world. They tend to revise history to suit their own sensitivities, but leave out all those nasty things (like facts) that don't fit in their playbook.

[wideawake]

Have the germans ever apologized for bombing England?

I don't think so.

Have they ever apologized for murdering millions of Jews?

Yes. They actually pay annual reparations. In gold.

This is sickening.

Sure is.

[laconic]

Berlusconi is still waiting for the apology from the Germans to Rome over the Teutoburg Forest.

[AppyPappy]

Yeah. Sorry it took so long for us to rescue the JEWS.

[Bluegrass Federalist]

Would it make a difference? The civilians in London are just as dead, sorry or not. Asking for an apology is shameful. Recognizing civilian deaths is one thing, but asking for an apology, shameful.

[Bikers4Bush]

I know about the reparations but have they ever said they were sorry or did they just agree to pay and never apologize?

[xp38]

Always heed John Cleese as Basil Fawlty....Don't mention the War!!!

[MadIvan]

My gran used to tell me about when she was a teenager in wartime London, and living with the nightly bombings, and then the doodlebug bombs came in: how there was a sound of the engine cutting out and then a loud bang when it hit. Years after the event, she shuddered remembering what life was like back then.

I'm not at all sorry as to what we did to Dresden. It was just retribution.

Regards, Ivan

[ClearCase_guy]

A word from Her Majesty:

"There has been much talk about the events of 1945. I know you remember them well. I want to say to you now -- you bloody well deserved it!"

[sierrahome]

My next door neighbors moved here from Germany in the early 50's. He would have been 16 in 1945 and she was 14 at the war's conclusion. To this day both believe that all the Jews returned from "camps" at the war's end and the Holocaust NEVER happened. It was at that point in our discussion that I called off any sort of Friendship. This is more common than most people would want to believe

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

One question for the Germans .......... How about Dachau?

Of all the places I've been on this earth, it's the most disturbing.

[headsonpikes]

Germany is one of those 'traditional allies' that Bush has alienated, according to Kerry and the MSM.

The other 'traditional' ally, of course, is France. It is to laugh.

With allies like these, who needs enemies?