[after talking about soccer and the upcoming World Cup:]
In a more serious moment, he said he understood German opposition to the war in Iraq.
"The Germans today simply don't like war... And I can understand that.
"There is a generation of people whose lives were thrown into complete disarray by a horrible war."
full: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4982338.stm
Unlike Americans, I guess, I suppose, who *do* like war. And by comparison, his little war in Iraq is a nice one.
All this coming from a guy who managed to sit out the Vietnam War with a coke straw stuck up his nose.
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Colin Brace
Amsterdam