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To: The Philosopher who wrote (84306)	3/20/2003 5:35:13 PM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 281500

Are you sugggesting that it isn't enough to affect German policy? Yes, the Germany-Iraq trade volume is too low to have a significant impact on Schröder's policy. What seem to you to be the major reasons Germany didn't support the US in the UN? The left-wing history of Schröder, Fischer and their parties. Schröder's social democrats have a long history of pacifism. After WW II, for instance, they opposed the introduction of the German army in the 1950ies. In the 1980ies, during Kohl and Reagan times, the SPD was part of the "peace movement" against the deployment of the Pershing tactical nuclear weapons. The Greens are even more radical pacifists than the SPD. One of their parliament members, Ströbele, wants to sue Schröder for acting too "militarily" in the current Iraq war (flight permits and allowing access to US bases are a "crime" for him). stroebele-online.de