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2006-02-06 Europe

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-02-06 10:19|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Words are cheap.

Posted by Fordesque 2006-02-06 11:25|| 2006-02-06 11:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Who would you rather have on your side in a fight with Iran, Germany or India?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-02-06 11:38|| 2006-02-06 11:38|| Front Page Top

#3 India all the way. They have shown a willing to confront terrorism head on. The extra-judicial justice also enables them to deal with Islamists at their level.

Posted by Rightwing 2006-02-06 11:57|| 2006-02-06 11:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Germans will be invading France for the third time in 100 years. looks like the next time it will be a good thing.

Posted by ed 2006-02-06 12:07|| 2006-02-06 12:07|| Front Page Top

#5 The relationship between the U.S. and the Germs is probably about the same at the diplomatic and Nato/UN level. Schroder was a wedge driven between the two countries that have, essentially, the same interests and objectives. A wedge that was placed by the communist(ish) left in Germany. While we don't always want to take long showers together, Germany and the U.S. usually work together enough to get it done. Schroder and Chirac let their personal investment portfolios get in the way of their professional judgement on Iraq maybe.

Posted by Shomosh Griper3082 2006-02-06 12:20|| 2006-02-06 12:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe the sons & daughters of Hermann aka Arminius will rise again. Arminius gave Caesar Augustus nightmares, was the reason the Roman Empire stopped expanding much beyond the Rhine & was why German is not a romance language.

Posted by Snuns Thromp1484 2006-02-06 13:39|| 2006-02-06 13:39|| Front Page Top

#7 MLF Lullaby
Sleep, baby, sleep, in peace may you slumber,
No danger lurks, your sleep to encumber.
We've got the missiles, peace to determine,
And one of the fingers on the button will be German.

Why shouldn't they have nuclear warheads?
England says no, but they all are soreheads.
I say a bygone should be a bygone,
Let's make peace the way we did in Stanleyville and Saigon.

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean,
But that couldn't happen again.
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they've hardly bothered us since then.

So, sleep well, my darling, the sandman can linger.
We know our buddies won't give us the finger.
Heil - hail - the Wehrmacht, I mean the Bundeswehr,
Hail to our loyal ally!
M L F
Will scare Brezhnev.*
I hope he is half as scared as I!

Tom Lehrer

Posted by gromgoru 2006-02-06 20:47|| 2006-02-06 20:47|| Front Page Top

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