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2005-08-14 Europe

Schroeder Rejects Military Option Against Iran

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Posted by Fred 2005-08-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Dear friends in Europe and America, let us work out a strong negotiating position. But let's take the military option off the table. We have seen it doesn't work."

Dear Schroeder, it certainly worked very well in Germany's case: it converted a nation once bent on genocidal conquest and domination of the entire planet, into a nation of pacifist perennial vacationers and pensioners with all the imperialist impulse of a bag of turnips. Force not only worked, it worked very, very well.

Almost too well, it seems.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2005-08-14 07:58|| 2005-08-14 07:58|| Front Page Top

#2 "I ask you 'Does it advances the iterests of the Arian volk?'."

Posted by gromgoru 2005-08-14 09:21|| 2005-08-14 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 As I said yesterday: Ignore the lame duck.

Posted by True German Ally 2005-08-14 10:02|| 2005-08-14 10:02|| Front Page Top

#4 I hope you're correct, TGA, but media stuf like this makes me worry. I'll feel lots better after the election and formation of a new government.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-14 10:10|| 2005-08-14 10:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Let's get Sammy swinging, sooner rather than later. A nice public hanging will stiffen the spine of our "allies" and tighten the sphincters of our "less than allies."

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-08-14 10:14|| 2005-08-14 10:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Mrs Davis, campaigns will be campaigns. Stoiber is realizing that he needs to mobilize voters in the conservative South to upset losses in Eastern Germany.

Remember, he only lost the elections by 6000 votes which he could easily have secured in Bavaria with a little more effort.

Posted by True German Ally 2005-08-14 10:19|| 2005-08-14 10:19|| Front Page Top

#7 It just seems so clear cut, I'm surprised Schroeder is competitive at this point.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-14 11:55|| 2005-08-14 11:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey, I was surprised that Kerry was competitive. Go figure.

Posted by Darrell 2005-08-14 11:58|| 2005-08-14 11:58|| Front Page Top

#9 If it limps like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is probably a lame duck.

If two people in negotiations have a sense of goodwill, and that there is give and take and a vision of the common good, then negotiations will proceed and conclude successfully.

If one of the negotiators has no intention of give-and-take and jacks the other around, then the only negotiating tool the other has is a big stick leaning agin' the wall in the corner of the room.

Without a stick, the EU3 don't have jack sh*t to back them up. Their only tool is appeasement, which has been used a few times in the last century, but to little avail. Nice bag of tricks you have in your kit, Herr Schroeder.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-08-14 15:45|| 2005-08-14 15:45|| Front Page Top

#10 I hope you're correct, TGA, but media stuf like this makes me worry. I'll feel lots better after the election and formation of a new government.

I didn't know Howard Dean had a sister?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-08-14 16:37|| 2005-08-14 16:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Hmmmmmmmm, so GLOBAL ISLAMIST/JIHADIST STATE does NOT extend or mean GERMANY nor to the German people, just as it doesn't to FRANCE - you betcha boy!? And "JIHADIST" > is NOT mean any future Global Islamic Govt./Bureaucracy will NOT be in a permanent "state of war" like the USSR-Red China -OOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, whether dedicated Muslim or Convert, "state of war" = you have no rights except thru the now Global Mad Mullahs, aka the Central Committee/Presideum of Global Mullahship!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-08-14 21:24|| 2005-08-14 21:24|| Front Page Top

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