October 12, 2004

• DIE DEUTSCHEN:

  
  

  In Kerry Verlieben, das Recht Verwirren, den Mut Verloren – von den Meisten ist Alles Klar…

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Germany, a weasel for everybody to love (though some will say not a high-brow weasel with the particular tastes of France) seems to be burning its bridges by Bush with a backdoor endorsement of John Kerry. (Germany is expert, it turns out, in burned-out bridges). In an interview today with the Financial Times of London Germany’s Defense Minister Peter Struck, in a rush to be among Kerry’s most devoted of ”foreign leaders/poodles” seems to indicate Germany would be willing to lend a hand with a troop presence in Iraq given the right circumstances:

  
  

   

  
  

  1.       The terrorists promise not to shoot at them.

  
  

  2.       The U.S. chooses the Old World candidate John Kerry in November…or December…or January…

  
  

  3.       Hollywood promises more oompa music in movie soundtracks

  
  

  
  

   

  
  

  In the interview, Herr Struck said that Monsieur Kerry’s promise to convene an international conference on Iraq was a “very sensible proposal”. He then went on to say “Germany has taken on responsibilities in Iraq, including financial ones…”

  
  

   

  
  

  Actually, I do believe we already know about those financial interests.

  
  

   

  
  

  The German defense minister in the interview also sought to validate Germany’s input in the Iraq process by pointing out their help in training Iraqi troops and police while vacationing in the sunny UAE. Training them to do what, lose? It’s amazing Berlin can hear itself above the laughter.

  
  

   

  
  

  Struck, between a rock and a hard place, then points to German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer’s “contribution to stability in the (Middle East) region” between Israel and the Palestinians, which has clearly worked so well to bring about a new age of newly forged plowshares and integrated ice skating rinks all across the Bibleland.

  
  

   

  
  

  For all of Germany’s criticism of the Afghani opium trade, there are certainly far more than just ein Stuck who seem to have become fully whisked away by the preternatural altered realities of something. 

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Related Stoffe über die Deutschen:

  
  

   

  
  

    

  
  

  Aber jeder nicht And lest you cast out the baby with the Baath water, there are still many Germans who haven’t completely lost their marbles. Unfortunately outnumbered by socialists since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, Die Deutschen ohne Stimme, whose CDU Party Prime Ministers included Founder-Statesman Konrad Adenauer and Reagan-pal and friend to Freedom Helmut Kohl are anything but happy with the direction of their nation’s current foreign policy. In fact in a recent poll, one in five Germans would even go so far as re-erecting the Berlin Wall and sticking all of the suckling former East Germans back on the other side. Nevermind the fact many DDR (German Democratic Republic i.e. East Germany) Communist war criminals’ slates in 1990 were wiped clean for expediency – so they could remain politically relevant.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  More:

  
  

   

  
  

  A colorful web-scrapbook belonging to a man by the name of Manfred-Günter Boffo seems to be a bottomless pit of great historic photos, tales and eccentricities from the old DDR:

  
  

   

  
  

  In German

  
  

   

  
  

  In English (very broken English, but still worth your visit)

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Blogbat Presents:

  
  

  Dirty Secrets of History #589

  
  

   

  
  

  Sozialismus:

  
  

  The SDP (Gerhard Schröder’s) Party Motto

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

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