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Article: A Letter to Greens at Home. (War for Oil).(Green Party)(War on Terrorism, 2001-)(Brief Article)
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- Synthesis/Regeneration
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Recent conflict here in Germany between the Social Democrats and the Greens (and corresponding conflict within the Greens) are interesting to US Greens, though I would stress that we have not been served the same sort of dilemmas they have. I have received a few e-mails asking how in hell a Green party could have voted for this war so I will try.
Here is the mess that the Greens had to face: Schroeder forced things so that the vote of confidence in his government was tied with support for the deployment of German troops in a combat role outside of Europe for the first time since 1945--despite the fact that no one has asked them to participate. If Greens had voted ...