January 31, 2006

WHY ARE THERE ANY?:

British troops in Germany ready for mass withdrawal (Michael Evans, 1/31/06, Times of London)

AN ARMY brigade that fought in all the major battles of the Second World War and has been stationed in Germany for 25 years is to be withdrawn and returned to England.

The 4,400 troops of the 4th Armoured Brigade, many of whom have German wives, are to be relocated to Catterick in North Yorkshire and given a new role.

The withdrawal will bring the number of British troops in Germany to below 20,000 for the first time since 1945.


You can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel of the WWII quagmire....

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 31, 2006 8:34 AM
Comments

Weren't we supposed to be moving our troops to Poland? What happened to that idea?

Now would be a good time to take our guys out of Germany, so Germans could notice the big dent in their economy.

Posted by: erp at January 31, 2006 10:48 AM

Germany for Germans!

Oh, wait.....

erp, we handed over the airport.....

There used to be a blogger - Wes Dabney(?) who was stationed in Germany right after 9/11 and then moved to Korea. He had to quit blogging, but I remember a post in which he wrote it was just a coincidence that Germany's economy started going down when we started moving out our troops in the mid-90s.

I've learned quite a few things courtesy of the blogosphere over these past few years. It's amazing what our economy did in the 90s and frankenreich barely moved.

Posted by: Sandy P at January 31, 2006 10:57 AM

So are they all out now?

Posted by: erp at January 31, 2006 11:30 AM

We're maintaining something there, but I think over 1m have left Germany since the mid-90s.

Posted by: Sandy P at January 31, 2006 12:26 PM

I lunched yesterday with colleagues and one woman stated that the EU could invade Iran "if it wanted to," but that it wouldn't. She was totally convinced that there was a country called "the EU" and that it had a viable military. It really made we wonder.

Posted by: greg at January 31, 2006 12:27 PM

How about the Korean War quagmire? Can we get ourselves out of that, please?

Posted by: b at January 31, 2006 3:01 PM

Next week the French army withdraws from France.

Posted by: Jim in Chicago at January 31, 2006 5:44 PM

Stop the war! 50 years is long enough! US out of Korea!

Posted by: Jayson at January 31, 2006 11:36 PM

And let's not ignore the lingering 110 year war...as we are still in Puerto Rico and Guantanimo. Let's bring the troops home now! End the Spanish-American War!

Posted by: Jayson at January 31, 2006 11:38 PM
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