After refusing to allow Israel to send a team of commandos, the Germans, for legal reasons not made clear, refused to give themselves permission to send in their own army units, and left the initial assault on the Israeli compound to untrained border guards.
Kathleen Blanco was a German elected official?
22 posted on 09/09/2005 10:57:51 AM PDT by Dahoser
(If we can't shoot the looters, can we at least drop a Taser in the water near them?)