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To: TobagoJack who wrote (52619)	2/4/2006 6:23:51 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

General, always the nations without BIG GUNS want to find peaceful solutions - while the warmongers only see the world as a bunch of nails needing to get whacked by thier tanks and missles - Merkel should have learned from the USA - its OK to go into DEBT if you are going to build out the military - cause then when your creditors come knocking - you pull out the big shotgun and tell them to go home! Rome did not fall until her military was successfully challenged, weakened, and beaten numerous times - that day is a long way off for the USA - a LONG WAY off! Spain lost a lot of ships in her mass armada and only when her military might was beaten - did she really fall eh? The crown came to the USA to extract her tribute and george washington sent thier ass packing - that was the beginning of the end of her empire - asia was no longer succumbing to her military might as readily either. DJ Germany Merkel: Budget Restraints Limit Defense Spending MUNICH (AP)--German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Saturday that budget restraints would continue to limit her country's defense spending, despite calls from the United States for European allies to increase their military funding. In a speech to an international security conference, Merkel also said NATO should remain the "primary forum" for trans-Atlantic security - a position different from that taken by the government of her predecessor Gerhard Schroeder at the same meeting last year. Merkel also asserted that Iran cannot be allowed to develop nuclear weapons, and blasted comments about Israel and the Holocaust made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "A president that questions Israel's right to exist, a president that denies the Holocaust, cannot think that Germany has even the slightest degree of tolerance. We have learned from our history," Merkel told an international security conference. Merkel said the Nazi experience showed the need to act swiftly against such extremism, but stressed that Iran should be confronted with diplomatic, not military means. "Looking back the to German history in the early 1930s when National Socialism was on the rise there were many outside Germany who said it is only rhetoric - don't get excited," Merkel said. "There were times when people could have reacted differently, and in my point of view, Germany is obliged to do something at the early stages." Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sought to allay fears, insisting: "Iran has never been seeking nuclear weapons." (END) Dow Jones Newswires February 04, 2006 04:28 ET (09:28 GMT) I play you deathmatch General Chen, one effective strategy to beat you is that as the BFG's and Rocket Launchers spawn - I go gobble them up before you do - and only leave you with 9mm pistol against my arsenal of highly desructive weaponry. The western military complex doesn't want people it gets critical exports from to have guns equal to or bigger than it does. They might not let us keep extracting our tribute at that point - hehe.