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Germany joins France, Belgium in blocking NATO planning to protect Turkey
AP
| 2/10/03
Posted on 02/10/2003 3:14:35 AM PST by kattracks
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany joined France and Belgium on Monday in blocking the start of NATO military planning to protect Turkey against the threat of an Iraqi missile attack.
"We are joining Belgium and France," Foreign Ministry spokesman Walter Lindner said.
The announcement came after France and Belgium blocked the move at the NATO alliance in Brussels, Belgium.
NATO officials said France formally blocked the move an hour before NATO procedures would have automatically started the military planning at 4 a.m. EST.
At a weekend defense conference in Munich, Defense Minister Peter Struck had still hinted that Germany might be willing to lift its objections.
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:14:35 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
NATO: RIP
2
posted on
02/10/2003 3:20:15 AM PST
by
Arkie2
(What do you call 100,000 Frenchmen with their arms in the air? The Army!)
To: kattracks
The Axis of Weasels is complete.
No protection for the Turks? What a bunch of pious hypocrites in the German government. Where would they be if WE hadn't protected BERLIN from the Soviets in 1949?
Euroweenies show their true colors once again.
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:25:44 AM PST
by
petuniasevan
(Ahh---Germany, the leader in civilized behavior---barf---backstabbing again.)
To: Arkie2
Germany=Moe; France=Shemp; so I guess Belgium must be Larry (I couldn't bring myself to insult Curly by including him in this group!)
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:26:20 AM PST
by
t4texas
To: kattracks
It may be time to reconsider NATO, in that it is well past time for the Europeans to fully take on the expense to defend and protect themselves. The economies of the EU states are strong enough in their own right to be able to afford the costs. We can spend the savings on missile defense and rapid force projection, and let the surrender monkeys take care of themselves. The US no longer needs to subsidize a basic responsibility of nation-states.
To: Arkie2
Irrelevant -- just like the UN. We ought to scrap both, or just quit paying the bills and wait until they collapse. Who are the Frogs going to cry to when the ragheads destroy the Eiffel Tower?
6
posted on
02/10/2003 3:27:05 AM PST
by
jrlc
To: kattracks
Boycott ALL French and German products!!!!!!
To: kattracks
buh bye NATO, UN, France, Germany.
To: kattracks
9
posted on
02/10/2003 3:32:22 AM PST
by
petuniasevan
("Anything for a buck": proud slogan of the Axis of Weasels)
To: kattracks
Et tu, Brute?
To: kattracks
11
posted on
02/10/2003 3:34:50 AM PST
by
petuniasevan
("Anything for a buck": proud slogan of the Axis of Weasels)
To: petuniasevan
"We've been waiting for you, Belgie!"
12
posted on
02/10/2003 3:36:14 AM PST
by
shezza
(The Axis of Weasels revolves around delusions of grandeur)
To: kattracks
The war on terrorism is showing just how impotent and irrelevant the methods of the 19th Century are going to be during the 21st Century. The UN, NATO, and even the attempt to form a European Union will be smashed on the shoals of the New World we must lead.
13
posted on
02/10/2003 3:38:18 AM PST
by
AFPhys
To: Hoosier-Daddy
I'll second that..
To bad this wasn't decided before we got sucked into the Balkans quagmire..
That was a bondoggle that didn't even concern NATO....
Looks like we may lose bothe NATO and the U.N.
With the cost savings we maybe can improve our defenses..and save our soverniegty....
14
posted on
02/10/2003 3:40:48 AM PST
by
bullpup
To: kattracks
blocking the start of NATO military planning
My guess is that plan is already in place. This is just some bureaucrat chatter.
15
posted on
02/10/2003 3:43:06 AM PST
by
doosee
To: Hoosier-Daddy
I'll second that..
To bad this wasn't decided before we got sucked into the Balkans quagmire..
That was a bondoggle that didn't even concern NATO....
Looks like we may lose bothe NATO and the U.N.
With the cost savings we maybe can improve our defenses..and save our soverniegty....
16
posted on
02/10/2003 3:44:38 AM PST
by
bullpup
To: Highest Authority
I agree wholeheartedly on an immediate BOYCOTT of all French and German and Russian goods. I'd add Belguim to the list, but can anyone figure out anything actually made in Belguim??
Second NATO is Dead. Kaput. It was formed as an alliance to counter the Commie Warsaw Pact after WWII and to protect the weasels from the Red Army. Now that the Soviet Empire and the Warsaw Pact are no more, NATO has no real purpose.
Clearly, NATO is impotent in the current War on Terror since several memebers of the "alliance" are working in full cahoots with the Terror Makers. So let's face reality and scrap NATO and form a second Atlantic-Mediterranean Alliance against Terror. Let in the Brits, Italians, Spanish, the East European countries and anyone in the region who stands With Us and Against Terror. That would mean bye-bye to Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and anyone else who hinders us.
Third, I dont think any future Secretary of State will ever advise a President of the United States to forestall any foreign policy decision until the UN has acted. That policy of UN-consensus is also, alas, quite dead.
To: kattracks
Defense Minister Peter Struck had still hinted that Germany might be willing to lift its objections. Too late for that, pretty boy.
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posted on
02/10/2003 4:02:25 AM PST
by
Cicero
To: petuniasevan
No protection for the Turks?It isn't just the Turks. No AWACS or patriots that were supposed to come from NATO leaves our troops in Turkey open to pre-emptive attack from Iraq. We probably do have some of those there, but refusing these now (heck, we probably supplied them in the first place), puts our servicepeople at greater risk.
To: bullpup
Speaking of the Balkans, I think we will need those troops. I don't care if Germany and France and Belgium get overrun by islamists.
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