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Germans don't realize what they have lost
The National Post (Canada) ^ | April 14, 2003 | Alexandra Richie

Posted on 04/14/2003 6:34:14 AM PDT by MadIvan

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The German political class has lost its collective mind.

Regards, Ivan


The flag of Canada...before the trouble started.

1 posted on 04/14/2003 6:34:14 AM PDT by MadIvan
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To: hoosiermama; Dutchgirl; Freedom'sWorthIt; Carolina; patricia; annyokie; ...
Bump!
2 posted on 04/14/2003 6:34:30 AM PDT by MadIvan
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To: MadIvan
Believe me the leverage they exert is minuscule beside the fury of their bellows.
3 posted on 04/14/2003 6:36:21 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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God bless our troops. Come home safe, and soon.
4 posted on 04/14/2003 6:36:32 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: MadIvan
germany has been acting against the us and the uk for a few yrs now..time for us to break all ties with them
5 posted on 04/14/2003 6:38:49 AM PDT by rrrod
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To: MadIvan
Although it was unutterably stupid of the Germans to take the stance they did, it was even stupider of the Russians.
6 posted on 04/14/2003 6:39:28 AM PDT by wideawake (Support our troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: MadIvan
"Germans don't realize what they have lost"

Well, for a start, how about two world wars.
7 posted on 04/14/2003 6:43:47 AM PDT by Bluntpoint (u)
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To: MadIvan
I was reminded of the days when I lived in proto-Stalinist East Berlin and would cross the Wall into the West only to run into demonstrators protesting against the "illegal American occupation" of the city.

I wonder how many protests against the "illegal Soviet occupation" were held in East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechlosovkia, the Baltic Countries .....?

8 posted on 04/14/2003 6:47:12 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Soddom has left the bunker.)
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??? For a few years now??? Would you please explain that?
9 posted on 04/14/2003 6:48:14 AM PDT by Michael81Dus
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To: MadIvan
Germans claim to have learned the lessons of history, but on the streets of Berlin today the irony that their country is turning its back on the United States in favour of the likes of France, Russia, China and Syria -- countries engaged in places such as Ivory Coast, Chechnya, Tibet and Lebanon -- indicates that they haven't learned quite as much from the past as they would like to think.

Excellent point. Where are all of the protests by the euro-weenies about those invasions?

10 posted on 04/14/2003 6:48:16 AM PDT by StockAyatollah
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To: MadIvan
The Germans have started another war that will be devastating to their country.

This one is an economic one and one of chosing the side of evil.

They will be in a severe recession with higher unemployment before the year is over.

They have lost this war without firing a shot.

$crew the Germans!
11 posted on 04/14/2003 6:50:16 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
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i dont think any one can deny that germany , france and russia were actively acting against us before and during this war...and i think they are going to continue to sabotage us at every chance...looking at germany today you can see they have thought police all over the place...complete state control
12 posted on 04/14/2003 6:51:20 AM PDT by rrrod
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"They have to be removed by other means," she replied.
The only other way is to get another country to do the fighting for them, like the French do.
13 posted on 04/14/2003 6:53:49 AM PDT by afz400
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I stopped a young student with a "Shame on You Mr. Bush" poster and asked him why he was there. 'To protest against American imperialism," he said earnestly. And what of the pictures of Iraqis pulling down the statue of Saddam Hussein? "Didn't you see the looting

Ignorance is bliss. The Iraqis sure seem to be happy even if "the world" isn't. I live in Los Angeles, less than 10 years ago we were plagued by 3 days of riots and looting because our fine "black community" didn't like the verdict in the Rodney King trial. Yes I said LOOTING, LOOTING, LOOTING (so what)

14 posted on 04/14/2003 6:54:09 AM PDT by Mister Baredog ((They wanted to kill 50,000 of us on 9/11, we will never forget!))
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Believe me the leverage they exert is minuscule beside the fury of their bellows.

Well said! Well said!

15 posted on 04/14/2003 6:58:20 AM PDT by geedee
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To: MadIvan
Red Ensign bump.
16 posted on 04/14/2003 7:26:47 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Help me decide: Is the Left morally corrupt and intellectually bankrupt, or vice versa?)
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To: MadIvan
What has happened in Germany happened in the United States for a time under the Clinton administration - the ascension of a 60s-bred ruling class steeped in internationalism, its members convinced of their own moral and intellectual superiority, and utterly opposed to nationalist identity, sovereignty, and independence. Their efforts on behalf of peace through world government wouldn't be so bad if their model for that government weren't centralist, bureaucratic, elitist, and coercive, a sort of EU writ large.

It won't work - it is already creaking under its own unwieldiness and inflexibility, and is supremely subject to being suborned by a determined "maximum leader." Chirac sees himself in that role in Europe. Clinton sees himself in that role worldwide. It is essentially a large organization full of representatives of smaller organizations, themselves representatives of still smaller ones - it is the model from which the Soviet Union was built. The attraction it has to a self-proclaimed elite is that it allows a very small number of people - a vanguard - to wield an inordinate amount of power - oh, for the purposes of good, of course, but that is a self-defined good that its supposed beneficiaries, poor unenlightened souls, find rather dubious. The principal problem is that it can promise peace and prosperity but cannot deliver, and so with the German government of the moment, so with its East German predecessor built on the same ideological hopes, so with the Soviet Union itself.

18 posted on 04/14/2003 7:43:07 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Technoir
I guess you didn't notice:

IRAQ WAS A CENTER OF STATE SPONSORED WORLD TERRORISM

with its fall, the world socialist vanguard has lost its shock troops...

why do you think there were so many protests, all coordinated and synchronized against this war. you actually think these protests were "spontaneous"???

19 posted on 04/14/2003 7:53:59 AM PDT by chilepepper (Gnocchi Seuton!)
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??? I have no idea what you are trying to say. It seems like you are both for and against the war in Iraq. Sort of like Germany and Canada.
20 posted on 04/14/2003 7:58:47 AM PDT by KeyWest
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