Reply #8: the quote from der Der Spiegel is correct:

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"Defense minister Peter Struck deems possible the deployment of the Bundeswehr in Africa."

(Comment: absolutely, he is very explicit in stating that, note that he very generally speaks of AFRICA)

One cannot just watch (sit by) if it comes to genocide, he said in an interview.

(Exactly, that's what he said, IF it comes to genocide)

Nowhere he states, however, that what is going on in the Sudan is genocide. He speaks of some interpretations that may not be "entirely wrong". Read again my translation and show us (or if you can, point to the German text) where he allegedly does. He also does not threaten German troop deployment. He does just the opposite, saying that is not what is on the agenda.

And for the record, the SPD does indeed not represent the right wing in Germany (as I nowhere implied). They represent the "realist" moderates. Mr. Struck, however, does represent the right wing in the SPD, and in the government (as "defense" ministers almost always do).

What's more, the SPD is currently undergoing a transformation, carrying out more of the right-wing agenda than their right wing opponents were ever able to do, which includes not only their pro-active military policies but also their social cuts that have driven major parts of the left wing out of their party. Currently a new left party is in the process of forming itself and I am proud to say that I am a member of this initiative: Wahlalternative. Our most prominent supporter is Oskar Lafontaine, chairman of the SPD when they were elected into office in 1998, who left the goverment in protest. He was opposed to the Kosovo bombings, to the social cuts, and to the entire drift to the right. He will feel much more at home in the new party, which is forecasted to receive possibly more than 10% of the vote (while the SPD is losing EVERYWHERE they went to the polls since their last Bundestag victory under the false label of an anti-war party).

http://www.wahlalternative.de/positionen.php


on edit: Wahlaternative is not forming the "third" party, as I erroneously said. It will be the fifth party of relevance in Germay, three of which will then be to the left of the SPD. It will hopefully be the third largest of all.