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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (113923)9/4/2003 4:08:53 PM
From: Elsewhere  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Either way it's pretty clear that Jochen Fischer isn't exactly dancing a jig about sending German troops to Iraq.

Joschka (really Joseph) Fischer :-)

I doubt there will be much support out of that government without some serious pressure, internally and externally.

For the record: the conservative German opposition leader, Angela Merkel, favors German troops in Iraq. Merkel's party is still leading Red-Green in polls by far.

German opposition chief calls for military engagement in Iraq
IRNA, August 16, 2003
irna.ir



To: Hawkmoon who wrote (113923)9/4/2003 5:20:31 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
<But I think Powell has drawn an acceptable compromise with the US reporting to the UN on its activities in Iraq.>

Except it's not a compromise (it leaves all effective power with the U.S.) and not acceptable to the French and Germans (or, I suspect, the Russians or Chinese).

This mini-FallBack position is going to quickly give way to further fallbacks. UNization = Vietnamization.


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