Peace Demonstrations

[Vengeance]

Here is the 2nd one:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31190

For those who don\'t like to click, here is one excerpt:

According to the latest issue of G2 Bulletin, Iraq\'s own reports to the United Nations Security Council show that German firms made up the bulk of suppliers for Iraq\'s weapons of mass destruction programs.

\"Even while playing the role of peacemaker looking only for solid proof of arms violations by Iraq, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder knows the truth ? that he and his country have provided much of the equipment and expertise Iraq has needed to reinvigorate its efforts to build weapons of mass destruction,\" the newsletter reports.

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The German firm Preussag is the leading supplier of chemical agents and production equipment to Iraq, according to documents turned over to the U.N. by Baghdad. Preussag is a subsidiary of Europe\'s largest travel agent and tour operator TUI. It is also a company that has been very supportive of Schroeder. In early 1998, when Schroeder was running for re-election as prime minister of the state of Lower Saxony, he had the state buy 51 percent of Preussag\'s troubled steel division to the tune of $500 million, claiming that 12,000 jobs were at stake. Schroeder went on to win the crucial election, setting him up to become chancellor.

[elKano]

Well, I don\'t know a lot of all that, but I have heard many things about European division, etc.
The point is that I have read the famous letter wrote by 8 european leaders. I have heard what Chirac saids about Irak. And, when you pass through all US-ass licking on the letter, you have the same message than Chirac\'s: \"We want to wait for the UN conclusions, and try to avoid the war by all ways possible. If it\'s unavoidable, then we\'ll be there.\"
Apparently, the media really want to create ennemies where there are just differences of style.

Anyway, I personnally am against wars, but I reckon that one would be the easiest way to end with the mess started with that gulf war. The problem is that I by now have heard nothing about the post-war Irak situation: the kurd problem, a new democracy imposed to a broken people, etc. It\'s not that easy to remove a dictatorship if the country is not ready.