Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

Germany can cope with at least 500,000 asylum seekers a year for several years, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said.
Germany expects more than 800,000 asylum-seekers in 2015 alone - four times the 2014 figure.
Mr Gabriel reiterated that other EU states should share the burden.

I know that Scotland will do its share.

Keep in mind that without US meddling we wouldn't witness today neither a Syrian 'crisis' nor ISIL.
Wonder how the next mess done by the self-proclaimed 'world-police' will look like.

The German government is accused of selling weapons and security systems to dictatorial regimes and supporting them against democracy calls of their nations, especially in the Middle East and North Africa. Selling arms to such regimes takes place despite the fact that Saudi Arabia has not been playing a peaceful role in regional developments during the past few months.

It has been suppressing the popular uprising in Bahrain, on the one hand, while playing a sinister and destructive role in the Syrian unrest, on the other hand.

Israel, another major customer of German weapons in the Middle East is still pursuing its warmongering policies in the region after being delivered very advanced German submarines. Tel Aviv continues to threaten Iran with the use of force over Tehran’s nuclear energy program and has frequently underlined the role of these submarines in any possible attack against Iran.

Germany and Saddam’s Regime The issue which cannot be easily ignored is the high-profile part played by (former West) Germany and German companies in providing Iraq’s former Baathist regime with all kinds of weaponry during its eight years of imposed war against Iran. Experts say no country ever helped Iraq with building weapons production complexes and a chemical weapons arsenal as much as Germany did.

In the meantime, Iraq imported a total of about 625 million dollars worth of military equipment from Germany between 1982 and 1986 to become the fourth biggest importer of German weaponry in the world. Of course, the figure only encompasses weaponry exports for which an official permit had been issued.

It ems that a sizeable number of immigrants coming into places like Italy, etc refused to give information on themselves so that is a dangerous side to things.

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The German government is accused of selling weapons and security systems to dictatorial regimes and supporting them against democracy calls of their nations, especially in the Middle East and North Africa. Selling arms to such regimes takes place despite the fact that Saudi Arabia has not been playing a peaceful role in regional developments during the past few months.

So it's easy to say, hard to prove. I agree that the US has fiddled too much in the region, but you'll have to show me that Syria would be fine otherwise. Did the us cause the uprising against Assad? I don't think so.

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The German government is accused of selling weapons and security systems to dictatorial regimes and supporting them against democracy calls of their nations, especially in the Middle East and North Africa...

I guess there's a bit of guilt everywhere.

However the amount of guilt might differ substantially to say the least.

In the early 1980s, five German firms supplied equipment to manufacture botulin toxin and mycotoxin to Iraq. Iraq's State Establishment for Pesticide Production (SEPP) also ordered culture media and incubators from Germany's Water Engineering Trading.[3] Strains of dual-use biological material from France also helped advance Iraq’s biological warfare program. From the United States, the non-profit American Type Culture Collection and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control sold or sent biological samples to Iraq up until 1989, which Iraq claimed to need for medical research...

I feel soooo guilty.

You're personally guilty for the Hitler era, aren't you?

Hier, bitte sehr.

This is one time I for one am inclined to stay the heck out of it. The only way to fix it would be to make Syria glow in the dark--- and nobody will like it if we do that.

is an American military news satire organization featuring satirical articles reporting on US military news. It is often described as "the military version of The Onion."

I daresay that bit of satire hits very close to the mark.

I see very little from the "chorus" here that doesn't try to blame America for every bad thing that happens anywhere in the world.

Have you ever asked yourself, why America with its 1400 military bases abroad and not someone else like Switzerland?