[ModelBreaker]

Many Germans, remembering Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's scornful "old Europe" put-downs of their country last year, will see these withdrawals, and the accompanying German job losses, as payback for Berlin's diplomatic opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Washington denies that. But the Pentagon does seem to have a growing preference for stationing troops either at home or on the territories of allies ready to embrace President Bush's notions of unilateral preventive war.

. . . and the problem with this would be ?

[Atlantic Friend]

Basically, none at all. It could be that the move is linked to German opposition to the Iraqi operation, but even if it was, these are American troops whose deployment in decided in Washington and nowhere else.