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Berlin - In a speech to the
FRG parliament (Bundestag) on Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to send additional
850 German troops to back the US surge in Afghanistan ordered by President Barack Obama. The
FRG foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, announced their new contribution to the US-NATO war to 60 foreign ministers assembled for the London Afghanistan Conference on
Thursday. The FRG will also step up its financial contribution to the war and provide €50 million to a €350 million international fund aimed at bribing members of the Taliban,
and double its contribution for so-called civilian development projects to a total of €430
million.
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The new FRG military strategy will lead to a far higher level of casualties amongst Afghan rebels and civilians at the hands of
FRG troops, as well as significantly increasing the death toll of
FRG soldiers. Merkel sought to disguise the real content of her Afghanistan policy, deceitfully describing
as 'the new approach'. All of this is humbug aimed at throwing sand in the eyes of the German public. Merkel's duplicity in relation to the real nature of the war in Afghanistan and the consequences of
the new position is possible only because the so called political opposition
(Frank Walter Steinmeier) has made clear it backs the new line. Also the Left Party indicated that they were prepared to drop their demand for the withdrawal of
FRG troops.
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The 'new strategy' is now clear, i.e., more of the same criminal military occupation that has already brought death and misery to hundreds of thousands of Afghans in a war which has already lasted twice as long as the
WWI. Increased numbers of FRG troops will bloody their hands alongside American and NATO forces in a military adventure with no end in
sight.
