[Michael81Dus]

Hey, that´s unfair.

[elhombrelibre]

Michael, that doesn't mean the German people support what some German companies did. Unlike the French, who worked full speed to undermine sanctions, the Germans are just indifferent to the role their companies played in building Saddam, and they're just more eager to join France to stop the US than in liberating the Iraqis. Schroeder is more anti-anti Saddam than is worthy of a person who cares about humanity. Elections have passed. He still works to save Saddam though. Weird.

[ffusco]

Smell the coffee. 80 firms have been indicted in Germany last week for doing biz w/ Saddam.

[Sal]

It sounds to me like the BND is undermining Schroeder. It's a good thing to do; I wish they'd started earlier.

[ffusco]

A good book about this is "The Captains and the Kings".
Premise is that although governments change, big companies do not. Examples include: Siemens, Krupps, Braun, Messershmidt, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagon, etc...all produced articles for Nazi Germany yet continued business as usual after the war.