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BelgianMadCow

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8. Merkel's CDU got 41,5 % of the vote. 65 % of Germans don't approve of the US

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Reply #4)

Fri Nov 8, 2013, 08:23 PM

Nov 2013

So that reasoning doesn't carry water.

I very much look op to the german popular resistance to surveillance states. What I read on the conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine makes more sense than what I read on DU, on this topic.

edited for bad math 100-35 = 65 not 75

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