[JCEccles]

First off - Germany has been taught well that they should not engage in any wars. Now they don't and everyone calls them Nazis

Germany has not been so "taught." Germany was prepared throughout the span of the Cold War to fight to the death the Soviet authoritarian threat. That threat has dissolved, largely through US resolve, resulting in the liberation of the communist-enslaved masses of eastern Europe.

Saddam is another authoritarian threat, able and willing to invade other nations and to employ weapons of mass destruction. However, Germany has done an about-face and now stands ready to protect this grotesque, mass-murdering, Jew-despising evil. Germany is reverting to type.

[WOSG]

I was in Munich same time as Rummy (different business). I saw the demonstrators. Included in them was a group carrying the hammer and sickle flags and 'che gueverra' flags. These are not pacifists, they are anti-American leftist militants who are opposed to anything good that the USA tries to do.

I saw a Palestinian flag, but not a peep of concern about the violence of Pali terrorists, nor a peep about the world's #1 warmonger, Saddam Hussein, who managed to start 2 of the biggest wars since 1980: iran-iraq and gulf war I.

It is not pacifism but anti-Americanism that is driving German opposition. JMHO.