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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 12:46 PM Original message |
Germans love their Army (pics) |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. You should run right the fuck over there and tell them this. |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 12:52 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Exactly! Convey to them that Americans are the new "Good Germans" ... |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 05:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
53. OP is French IIRC |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:05 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. anytime, any place nt |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
2. Today's Germans sure know how to put on a protest. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
3. Why should soldiers be exempt from criticism? Was it not the Bundeswehr that attacked those trucks? |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 03:56 PM Original message |
and the nice Talibans only stood by ? |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
25. What side are you on? Sanity or insanity? War and warmongering or peace? |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:35 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. Would that it were so easy... |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:41 PM Response to Reply #25 |
36. I am not on the side of Islamic barbarians |
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sui generis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
5. the difference is you have to serve in the military in Germany |
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MissHoneychurch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 01:04 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. The soldiers in Afghanistan |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
6. Bravo for them. 2/3 of the German people oppose our war in Afghanistan. |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:00 PM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Anarchists have always collaborated with the enemy |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:31 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. You're saying that the Germans who are against the war are "anarchists" . . .??? |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:54 PM Response to Reply #28 |
41. the people that organised that little "party" |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 05:07 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. Awww...poor troops. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 05:06 PM Response to Reply #16 |
42. Really? Want to provide some examples. And, who is "the enemy"? |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 05:21 PM Response to Reply #42 |
48. here is a pic |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 05:27 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. And, blowing up civilians did what to change that? |
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Threedifferentones (820 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 06:41 PM Response to Reply #48 |
56. When our own government is guilty of equally horrible crimes, who is the enemy then? |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:30 PM Response to Reply #6 |
27. Everyone in the world opposes our wars . . . US/CIA propaganda overcomes that, however .. . !!! |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
8. Germans love their right to dissent./protest/speech |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 03:55 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. They sure didn't get it from their grandfathers....... |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:32 PM Response to Reply #14 |
29. No . . . violence and terror by the ruling government tho seems to have taught |
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Kaleko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 11:43 PM Response to Reply #29 |
58. That's exactly it. Both points you make seem fairly obvious to many people, |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
9. Why do they hate "z troops"? Great masks BTW. nt |
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Kaleko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
10. "This is a blatant example of a lefty crticism that plays in the hands of the enemy |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 01:33 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. lol |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 03:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. English is not my primary language |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:35 PM Response to Reply #13 |
31. Easy to do! Our troops have been trained to be the most brutal and cruel |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 06:33 PM Response to Reply #31 |
55. Obviously you are ignorant |
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Kaleko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:38 PM Response to Reply #13 |
34. I was born and raised in Germany, |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:02 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. Bullshit. Tocqueville has been on DU far longer than you and ... |
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daedalus_dude (327 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:28 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. and his "time at DU" matters, how? |
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Kaleko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:29 PM Response to Reply #17 |
26. Actually, English is my second language |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:37 PM Response to Reply #17 |
33. First, how long someone is here is meaningless . . . what matters is |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:47 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. the display portrays the troops as butchers |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 05:30 PM Response to Reply #39 |
51. Civilians are already "fatigued" with the lost war in Afghanistan. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
12. Support the troops! |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
15. What a bunch of assholes. |
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daedalus_dude (327 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
19. K&R for "Wir trampeln durch die Beete, wir trampeln durch die Saat ..." |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
20. this is the real free Germany (pic) |
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Kaleko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:52 PM Response to Reply #20 |
40. My friends and relatives in Germany would disagree with your characterization. |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 05:15 PM Response to Reply #40 |
46. the right to dissent |
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Kaleko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 05:29 PM Response to Reply #46 |
50. In reality, everyone living in Germany these days has the right |
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Call Me Wesley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
21. I wouldn't put much thought in it, honestly. |
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daedalus_dude (327 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:25 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. oh, yes, Stauffenberg. |
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Call Me Wesley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:33 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. Stauffenberg excused the whole nobility |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:43 PM Response to Reply #30 |
37. Marion Dohnhoff, the friend of Nazi foreign minister Ribbentrop? |
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Call Me Wesley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 05:06 PM Response to Reply #37 |
43. Do you mean Lehndorff? |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:40 PM Response to Reply #22 |
35. opportunist? |
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Call Me Wesley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 05:09 PM Response to Reply #35 |
45. First, please don't attack other members here, |
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MissHoneychurch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:43 PM Response to Reply #21 |
38. Thanks CMW n/t |
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Call Me Wesley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 05:17 PM Response to Reply #38 |
47. Thank you. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
23. Certainly the Germans understand what troops can and have done . . .in obeying . . . |
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Kaleko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 05:53 PM Response to Reply #23 |
52. Ja genau. ;) |
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Gold Metal Flake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
54. My! What a finger-shaking little prick you are today! |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
57. The Universal Soldier |
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