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Hypocrisy by any other name

The Chancellor’s lies

by Ulrich Rippert

Berlin (Germany) | 25 April 2010

Germans remain uncomfortable with the idea of fighting a war, therefore Chancellor Angela Merkel’s line is that German soldiers are in Afghanistan to help stabilize the environment to pave the way for reconstruction. But with public opinion increasingly in favour of a troop withdrawal, Merkel (...)