[Michael81Dus]

Germany helps the US!

Germany
- protects US bases in Germany while they´re in the Gulf region
- took over lead of ISAF in Kabul (having the largest contingent with 2.500 soldiers)
- patrols with Navy ships at the Somali coast line
- cooperates with US intelligences (Al Quaida)
- has a bataillon of NBC-defense specialists in Kuwait on a US base
- has sent Patriot air defense missiles to Israel and will ship them to Turkey
- has special forces in Afghanistan hills fighting together with Turkish and US special forces against Taliban/Al Quaida

[Numbers Guy]

Germany helps the US!

I do think it's important to note, as you do, that Germany has a very solid post-war history of great cooperation with the U.S.

It's unfortunate that Schroeder's desperation to get re-elected has led him down his current path. He was basically willing to sell his country out in order to protect his political future, and the reverberations of that decision have affected people like you, and that's sad.

Here's hoping that there's a new government in Germany soon, even a more rational SDP government would be a vast improvement, and once that happens I expect relations will improve greatly.

[Ciexyz]

Okay, so we're willing to be educated on Germany's contributions. That still doesn't give Germany much points with the American public.

A better bellweather on attitudes toward France and Germany: the Saturday Nite Live skit last weekend about the UN -- with the pukey German ambassador leading the debate on when to break for lunch and the French ambassador insisting that he was bringing his mistress, his son and his son's two mistresses. A hoot.

[steveegg]

I was talking about the current political leadership, which seems to have a lot more in common with the Third Reich than you appear to appreciate.

[happygrl]

I suspect that the negative views of Germany will recover once Schroeder and his party are out of power.

Conservatives in Germany have a lot of work ahead of them. American's opinion of them [Germans] is not as critical as the nurturing of a realistic view of the world and the evil that must be confronted. The inability to grasp that strength must be projected in some instances, and that appeasement is fatal, will prove to be damaging to Germany in the long run. Germany, by hestitating in the face of evil, gives evidence that it does not trust its evaluation of good and evil in the world. America is confident that it knows evil when it sees it and should act to defeat it. This is the crux of the matter; Europe has lost its moral acuity.

This is also the result of a post-Christian world view in Europe. It has been said that when you don't believe in God, you 'll believe in anything.

[LibWhacker]

- protects US bases in Germany while they´re in the Gulf region

Against German peaceniks? Big deal. We're fully capable of "protecting" those bases ourselves.

[ohioman]

I hope Germany gets that Conservative woman as her leader. I hear she is a Thatcher clone. Schroederfuhrer is the worst leader of Germany since Wolf.

[nocommies]

dont forget where those patriot missiles came from

[faithincowboys]

Is it possible that Mr. Shroeder is a Russian plant? It seems like a preposterous question, but the chancellor is preposterous. I smell vodka. Why is your dear chancellor
hellbent on destroyng nato? With NATO coming closer to the Russian borders, many unreformed soviet-era communists would love to destroy NATO. Mr. Shroeder is Putin's proxy. The chancellor loved it when vlad spoke in the tongue of the fatherland before your parliament. The nat'l shame that you and your countrymen have worked so hard to wash off will be even worse in the years to come. To be called French or German will be a slur.