The Greens (and the other german parties) want to use the army for peacekeeping missions. Currently there are missions like these going on (with german involvement) in Afghanistan, Macedonia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Besides that there is the need for something like \"quick intervention forces\" within NATO and within the EU. The current \"Bundeswehr\" is ill-equipped for these missions and a more professional army could handle tasks like these a lot better.
Apart from that the whole draft thing is too expensive I guess.
To place the possible re-armament in a perspective: The german government has been asked by NATO, by the USA and by its other NATO allies to spend more on its military. Currently it has the lowest military budget of all NATO states in relation to its Gross National Product (with the exception of Luxemburg). This is one of the reasons that there is some sort of consensus to spend more on the military. Add to this the recent events around Iraq and the UN and the germans realise (even the greens!) that they have to build up a serious army if they want to be taken seriously in the world.
Franki [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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