Germans play as our boys fight

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Germans play as our boys figh


Let them eat cake ... idle German soldiers enjoy table football

WAR-SHY German commanders in Afghanistan have branded themselves useless “cake-eaters” in a memo exposed today by The Sun.

The shocking admission comes amid growing anger in Nato at Berlin’s refusal to commit troops to the bitter war against the Taliban in the southern badlands.
While outnumbered Brits battle it out, Germany’s 3,200 troops stay in the safe far north of the country.

Even then, few ever leave their base and none are allowed out after dark for fear of taking casualties.
German military chiefs are now so worried about their combat shirking, they have even tried to cover up exactly how little their troops are doing, we can reveal.

The secret memo urges officers NOT to talk about a recent German operation in case it was compared with the intensity of fighting in southern Afghanistan.
It adds: “This is fuel into the discussion of the ‘cake-eating Germans in the North’.”

Useless

The Sun has also obtained a set of photos of German soldiers in their Mazar-e-Sharif base playing cards and table football

Pleas by Nato generals for reinforcements for the battle-torn south from major European countries — especially Germany and France — have been repeatedly ignored

That has left Britain’s 7,500 troops, along with the US, Canadians and Dutch, to take on the bitter insurgency alone. Despite the Germans’ inactivity, coalition forces have killed 70 senior Taliban commanders this year, senior sources said last night.

A Nato insider in Kabul said: “Everyone knows how useless the Germans are for the effort here, but now they are admitting it.”

The German government has been desperate to avoid troop casualties.

Last month German rescue helicopters refused to fly at night. And their troops are not allowed to travel more than two hours from a military hospital — making huge areas supposedly under their control off-limits.

THE Sun urges people in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, to support the homecoming parade of the 3rd Logistics Support Regiment parade today. Our Boys were devastated when sister company the 4th Logistics came home to empty streets two months ago. Meanwhile 500 soldiers from 1st Battalion Irish Guards, just back from Iraq, were presented with campaign medals yesterday.


Lazy ... Germans tuck into nosh

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I hope the Germans soldiers can enjoy cake at home again asap and are replaced by brave Sun reporters, maybe their stupidy and loudmouthness with impress the Taliban...luckily most British oppose this war too.

[bombadillo]

Bear in mind that that sleaze tabloid, "The Sun," is owned by that American a$$-kissing slimeball, Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch claims all his 150 newspapers have independent editiorial policies but not one of his papers criticised the American plan to invade Iraq. Why should German lives be risked for US imperial policies? Bring them back home -- where they can play card and foozball even more comfortably.

[Susi]

Soldiers relax too, don't they? I don't see a problem with card playing and foosball table...