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Originally posted by bilmore
No, it was based on the reaction of the biggest trade union in Germany - which has spent the past year decrying us as warmongers, and has urged its membership to partake in the anti-American protests, but now, in the past few days, is suddenly aghast that they might lose jobs when we pull our troops.
(From this decent English-language German blog.)
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I know this is a hard thing to explain to a Republican, but I'm going to try anyway. There is a distinction between our country and our elected officials, and you can support the first without supporting the second. For example, you can call our leaders "warmongers" -- as German union kingpin Frank Bsirske evidently did, per your blog, in disagreement with our Iraq policy -- while still supporting our troops, or wanting to have them around.
You can divorce your wife because she refuses to obey your every command, but you can't pretend that she walked out on you -- not unless you have a reactionary view of marriage, anyway.
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