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To: Irish_Thatcherite

Maybe a bit like listening to americans talking about having rebuild an protected germany....

germans don't like to hear that either.


51 posted on 09/14/2006 12:33:54 AM PDT by Rummenigge (there's people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
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To: Rummenigge; Colosis; wideawake
Maybe a bit like listening to americans talking about having rebuild an protected germany....

It was free market reforms by successive Irish governments from the 1980s onward, not your handouts - considering that your subsidies have near-crippled Irish agriculture, I am thankful we didn't rely on your Euro dole in other areas....

59 posted on 09/14/2006 10:28:44 AM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
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To: Rummenigge
Maybe a bit like listening to americans talking about having rebuild an protected germany

The difference here is that it is true that the Marshall Plan and the US Armed Forces were instrumental in rebuilding postwar Germany.

60 posted on 09/14/2006 10:31:31 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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