Perhaps you missed ThorHammer's post - he replied to that. Anyway, whether it is something common to many countries and armies or not, it surely is wrong.

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All I know is that I'm going to be a bit more suspicious of any future German military activity in the Bronx.

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I don't think you have to worry about that anytime soon... in the words of Dennis Miller "It's just not on a grand enough scale for them" Althought, in all honesty, he was referring to them not being in Iraq.

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The hot potatoe game between democratic people. Anyone casting a global look on both sides of democratic people involved: democratic europe and the democratic us can only come to one conclusion: a similar perception on black people.

Democratic us black ghettoes a dangerous place for white people? Possibly but still much less that they are for democratic us black people themselves.

A democratic white one killed in such places is insured with being his case deeply investigated with democratic us cops combing the zone while in case of democratic black one being killed, the democratic investigators are less vindicative.

I still wonder which democratic movies depicting democratic black ghettoes as warzones, keeping in mind that democratic germany, mainly in its eastern parts has also its dangerous zones.

Of course it is Bush's fault. he has sent a secret message to the new Gestopo to start WWIII Doncha no???

The problem is that you don't understand that your so-called military shot-talk is revolting, and anything but something you should be proud of.

The more you post about military matters, doniston, the more I think you had a very sheltered experience in the Air Force. Obviously you have no idea what life is like in line units, or combat arms in general, and are therefore unable to understand why we do what we do.

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At least the Germans have done the right thing. According to the BBC this was a fairly big issue in Germany.

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I just finished an article that said the instructor has been dismissed from the Bundeswehr.

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Yep the BBC has been reporting that all morning.

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If the Austrian 'military' were truly a collection of Nazi's your cowardly weak-kneed government would have been removed ages ago. However, do not fret I am sure the Sovietish government of Germany will toss this instructor into the gulag system in the near future.

I cannot believe what I heard with my own ears. This man is a shame for all Germans. So - I beg your pardon, because I'm a German too. Please think about that in every country in the world are living some motherfuckers like this absolutely stupid kid.

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Why are you apologizing? You have no reason to.

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But Matt, that's one of your favourite habits ... you often excuse things the present administration does and refer to Clinton's failures instead. What was that about an earlier poster referring to post and kettles?

Matt

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