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To: Elsewhere who wrote (74983)	2/17/2003 7:21:05 PM
From: Rollcast...	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Europe was never under Saddam's boot. If he ever threatens to attack another country again there will be no problem to assemble another coalition just like in 1991. That's not the sort of attack Americans are concerned about... Also BTW, how large would the coalition be if he had nuclear capability? I wonder if that's the sort of bipolar world that Schroeder and Chirac are looking for?

To: Elsewhere who wrote (74983)	2/17/2003 7:37:12 PM
From: Rollcast...	Respond to of 281500

Europeans do care about the terror threat. Regular police is arresting alleged terrorists nearly every day. Special forces of all countries continue to hunt al Qaeda members worldwide. I wish the Bundeswehr would expand the KSK special forces. The few hundred men we currently have are all tied up in Afghanistan. Enough to collectively say "it's not us, it's THEM..." to the terrorists and their sponsors. The arrests are great though... it allows for a very "nuanced" position in the "with us or against us" argument. Habermas must be proud of his pupils.

To: Elsewhere who wrote (74983)	2/17/2003 8:18:24 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I would like the US forces to stay. And so do a huge number of German leaders who paid for an advertisement in yesterday's Sunday edition of the New York Times which is not online unfortunately; At this point my prediction is that those American troops leaving Germany for the Gulf will not return to Germany. If they return to Europe at all, it will be to new bases in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria.