Germany to Bush: Get Bent

Conservative German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was literally rubbed the wrong way by our boy Floyd R. Turbo Bush, said no way are her nation's troops going to get involved in attempting to help U.S. forces stave off an epic comeback attempt by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.

That the U.S. had to ask the Germans to do this is yet more evidence of the incompetent distribution of resources by the Bush Administration in the area and things are indeed becoming more tenuous for the American ability to stifle Afghanistan's murderous Islamic religious nuts. Helluva job there Georgie and Donny!

Both the war and Bush are extremely unpopular in Germany and it is evident that Merkel is attempting to soft shoe her country's participation in helping to turn Afghanistan around from a barbaric theocracy to a workable ally of the west.