The Nobel Prize for War 2009 goes to ...

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Indeed. On a related note, wasn't Menkel's pro-Iraq War
stance one of the reasons why she didn't win the Bundestag
election that took place a few months before the invasion?


Heikki

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Otto wrote:

> This is all correct, Thomas, thank you.
>
> But it is not true "that the people are overwhelmingly against it" -
> in our last general elections 90% of the people who voted have voted
> for political parties that stand for the Afghanistan-adventure. It
> doesn't matter what thepeople say in the surveys, it only matters what
> they do when they are going to the polls.
>
> 2009/12/6 Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>:
> > As far as I know, it's more complicated than that. The colonel (Oberst) who
> > called in the air strike, Georg Klein (incidentally also the name of an
> > important German author who champions Pynchon, I take the opportunity to
> > especially recommend Klein's novel 'Libidissi'), has not resigned but will
> > be subject to a courtroom hearing. The minister who was responsible at the
> > time of the air strike, which took place before the general elections, has
> > resigned. For the other resignations, see
> >
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/26/german-army-chief-resigns-afghanistan.
> >
> > These people have resigned i.e. been fired because relevant information was
> > withheld. In the course of events, Germany's new defence ('Deutschlands
> > Freiheit wird am Hindukusch verteidigt', errrm) minister has revised his
> > evaluation of the calling-in of the air strike from 'adequate' to 'not
> > adequate.'
> >
> > As I see it, the German elites desperately want to continue to take part in
> > the Great Game 2.0. but the people are overwhelmingly against it. We'll see.
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> >
>