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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elsewhere who wrote (16885)	5/7/2003 7:03:17 PM
From: Rollcast...	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

for refs to who supplied weapons to Iraq. Germany provided less than the USA Any refs for moral support to Saddam?? I'm sure Germany would be close to the top of that list. But there is always the "collective memories of urban warfare being so fresh" fallback to attempt to excuse Germany's collective back stabbing... I love that one.

To: Elsewhere who wrote (16885)	5/7/2003 8:31:20 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 21614

Jochen, Pure weapons versus dual use chemical/medical/biological equipment. Insecticide precursors = nerve gas precursors. Growth media for yeast or other germs? I suspect there is some hidden stuff that may or may not be found out afterwards. Russia was the big suppliers as they hade a large amount of otherwise worthless junk that they could sell to Iraq and hope some daye to get paid full value. I suspect that no weapons or dual use items will be paid for Genuine oil field supplies will probably get paid for. Schroeder and his advisors had better smarten up the German trade unions or they will totally ruin the economy. 5 week holidays and never ever lay off a worker policy only add to the cost of production, often ruinously so in bad times. In good times companies do not expand and make more, they just lengthen the delivery queue and that lets other companies somewhere else fill that need. They do that because they dare not hire another worker to make the extra goods because they cannot unhire him afterwards. So the law of unintended consequences means that the concept of permanent jobs = permanent 15% unemployed. If you hire and fire and get efficient. you end up with 4-5% unemployed and so I agree that Schroeder is a fool with power beyond his means. Bill Bill