A Brief History of Germany
1871 - Bismarck founds modern Germany.
1890 - Bismarck sacked, warmonger Wilhelm II takes direct control.
1914 - Germany starts World War I
1914-1918 - Germany kills millions upon millions of people.
1917 - Germany forces peace loving Americans to enter war.
1918 - Germany loses World War I.
1920's - Germans try democracy.
1933 - Germans reject democracy, allow Hitler to take power.
1939 - Germany starts World War II.
1939-1945 - Germany kills millions upon millions of people.
1941 - Germany forces peace loving Americans to enter war.
1945 - Germany loses World War II.
1946 - Germans whine about lack of food, America gives billions in food aid
to feed them.
1947 - Germans whine about crappy economy, America gives billions in
Marshall Plan aid to rebuild German economy.
1948-1949 - America puts bellybutton on line and risks WW3 to save a few Berliners
from Soviet hordes.
1949 - Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) established.
1950's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes.
1950's - German 'economic miracle' occurs while America keeps watch on
Soviet hordes.
1955 - NATO formed to protect West Germany from Soviet hordes.
1960's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes.
1960's - German students protest war in Vietnam and American civil rights.
1963 - American President John Kennedy makes "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech.
1970's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes.
1970's - Germans form the Marxist terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF).
1970's - Leftist German guerrillas burn, loot, and plunder much of West
Germany.
1980's - America spends tens of billions to defend West Germany from Soviet
hordes.
1980's - German leftists squeak about Pershing II missiles.
1987 - American President Ronald Reagan makes "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down
this wall" speech.
1989 - Gorbachev tears down Berlin Wall.
1990 - German Reunification.
1990's - America spends tens of billions to defend Germany from Islamic
hordes.
1990's - Germany stands by as ethnic cleansing occurs in Balkans.
1993 - Germany joins European Union.
1995 - Americans send troops to Bosnia as Germans watch from the sidelines.
1997 - Germans finally send troops to Bosnia.
1998 - Hardline, left-of-left socialist come to power under Gerhard
Schroeder.
1999 - Americans lead air war to save Kosovo as Germans watch from the
sidelines.
2001 - Schroeder offers solidarity to America after 9/11 attacks.
2002 - Schroeder bashes America to distract voters during election
campaign.
2003 - Germany sees rise in anti-Americanism after several decades of poor
treatment from America.
AND YOU THOUGHT THE FRENCH WERE UNGRATEFUL?
Germany certainly has the right to disagree w/ us... but they are overtly trying to derail us from doing what we feel is best for our country... disagreeing is one thing, but not siding with us is the same as siding against us(As all clear thinking people in America know) . The fact is, Germany is a non-communist, free country who owes whatever current prosperity it has to the U.S. You Germans may not like it, but we protected your borders when you could not, fed your people when you could not, built up your infrastructure when you could not, bolstered your economy when you could not. You want to know when you should no longer be beholden to the U.S.? Never. A little reciprocity would be nice.
The Americans who actually follow our history know that the French were very instumental in aiding us in acquiring our independence(thank you). We paid them back in WWI and WWII, with interest. Thousands upon thousands more Americans died in France in WWI and WWII than French died in the American revolution.
The Germans pay back decades of having their country propped up bt us by deliberately going about interfering with what we feel is vital to our security. The only logic that I can conceive of is: Both France and Germany have been doing extensive and illegal business with Iraq and they don't want to be found out. The only other explanation is the same one that applies to the ignorant peaceniks in this country: they ignore the facts because they like to be heard... and here is just another example of something they can "march" about to make them feel good about themselves.
