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[ProudArmyWife]

I came across this while "surfing" and since I am totally ignorant of what newspapers are in Germany or Europe...I thought I'd let you all check it out. (Please delete if duplicate topic)

http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/another_october.html

[Otis]

[FreeFall]

Thanks for posting this. I am curious about this passage:

6. Bush knows that Europe and Germany don’t have the military at their disposal to become involved in any further foreign military engagements. Therefore he won't ask them for help. Kerry will do exactly that – and will further burden already damaged German-American relations.

Does anyone know where the German and European military are engaged? I am not up to snuff on German politics, so are the German forces militarily engaged somewhere?

[Otis]

[Tacan70UDN]

[twicearound]

It seems this paper understands Kerry' s weakness and utter lack of ability to lead. Seems they are one up one some our weakminded voters.
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[Tacan70UDN]

[1AD]

German troops are in Afghanistan. There may be some in Kosovo but I am not sure about this one. Most European countries are not set up for long term large engagements overseas. When in their own self interests the French will drop in some legionnnaires but as far as being able to match the U.S. they cannot match us. The Brits are the closest to the U.S. in capability which is evidenced by their troops in Iraq and the fact they flew in the no-fly zones. Love those Brits. There are some smaller European countries that have troops in Iraq. Brief and not an all inclusive explanation.

[Steve Z]

I was in France on vacation during the month of July, where lots of people (my wife's friends) were asking me how I could possibly support President Bush, and I talked to them about things like oil-for-food payments going to French officials, and a parked plane at Salman Pak in Iraq that terrorists used to practice hijacking, meaning that prior to invading in Iraq, there could be reasonable suspicions that they were connected to 9-11.

One of the people there was a veteran of the French army, and said that George H. W. Bush should have sent forces into Baghdad in 1991. Unfortunately, French politicians don't have the same kind of courage as their solders. Money talks!!!
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[fastrock]

I can speak to Germany only and Tucan is right regarding their military involvement in Afghan and elsewhere. The European countries, both old and new, have almost non-existent military forces. All European countries still employ 12-18 month conscripts to "maintain" their armies. But all countries has elite military units, who are professional lifer military and highly trained comparable to a 101st AB or 1st Cav units, tho the countries would like to think they are equivalent to Delta Forces or at least Seals, etc
These are the units Poland and Spain has or had deployed in Iraq. The crutch of Kerry’s problem, God forbid he is elected, is that the countries already providing support don’t have any troops to rotate in and out of Iraq. Bush and US CentCom understands this, which is why the smaller countries are given less dangerous locations. When they need to give their troops a break, they have to pull them out without replacements. Which is why they usually only have causalities from terrorist attacks not combat. For that matter, England can only rotate marginally as can the Aussies. You saw how the crack Russian troops did at the school hijacking, so you figure what they could provide. Maybe if they stopped selling arms indiscriminately around the world would be a big help.
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