Tino Chrupalla, August 29, 2021, Afghan Migrants

AfD Kompakt, August 29, 2021. 

The debate over the Ortskräfte [local auxiliaries] was from the beginning a door-opener debate for the settlement of migrants who certainly are not Ortskräfte. The Federal government needs to immediately provide precise information as to which persons they have flown in and on which basis. Is it possible that violent perpetrators have again been brought to Germany?

2015 indeed threatens to be repeated, yet otherwise than was thought. We will not be over-run; we haul the people by aircraft via legal flight paths and resettlement programs into the country itself. This policy neither helps the Afghans nor serves the interests of the Europeans. It must be our goal that all Afghans are able to remain in their homeland or in their home regions!

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Rüdiger Lucassen, August 25, 2021, Bundeswehr and Afghanistan

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/238, p. 31011.

Herr President. Ladies and gentlemen.

We here need to clarify what we are dealing with: The parliament’s supporting act prolongs a sustained consent of the Bundestag to an already running evacuation operation. Despite that, this sustaining mandate is essentially symbolic. The Federal government ten days ago sent paratroopers and the KSK [Special Forces Command] to Kabul and thereby made facts. Even if the majority in this house were to refuse to vote in favor: These are faits accomplis and the Bundestag’s vote therein changes nothing.

Yet in this symbolism the government now does something shameless. You say: Who does not vote for this mandate leaves our soldiers in the lurch. – This is the same government which still in March agreed to the prolongation of the endless mission, the same government which slept through the Taliban offensive, and the same government which ignored the warnings of the German embassy, the same government which started the evacuation of German citizens 48 hours too late, and the same government which sees all others as responsible for this gigantic failure, only not itself.

Right honorable Federal government, it is not for you to decide here and today who stands behind our soldiers and who not.

For my delegation it is beyond question that we have always and everywhere supported the rescue of Germans from great danger. In the case of Afghanistan, that also pertains to the registered local auxiliaries [Ortskräfte]. Yet just as we feel ourselves responsible for the security of Germany and Germans in foreign lands, we fight for the security of Germany itself. And here we see the Federal government thereby begins to repeat its catastrophic loss of control from the year 2015.

Ladies and gentlemen, I will vote in favor of the Federal government’s mandate. My symbol is the rescue of Germans from a great danger. Yet I also understand each of my delegation colleagues who reject this mandate because they therein already see the core of a renewed wave of refugees to Germany and Europe;

            Alexander Lambsdorff (FDP): What nonsense!

            Henning Otte (CDU/CSU): Contrived!

for them, the symbol is the domestic security of Germany. Germany’s security and the rescue of Germans – the AfD stands for both.

Ladies and gentlemen in the coalition bloc, you are obligated to the policy of your Chancellor – we not; in the voting, we follow our consciences.

Thanks.

           Aydan Özoğuz (SPD): Because you have none!

 

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Armin-Paulus Hampel, August 25, 2021, Afghanistan

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/238, pp. 31015-31016.

Herr President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen. Dear viewers at the screens.

Frau Chancellor Rabbit – I cannot designate you otherwise – , the story, which you today have here delivered to us, tops all that up to now you have told in other fairy tales.  

Nothing understood in 20 long years, 20 long years in which you have forgotten all that experts have observed and opined of Afghanistan. After 20 years, you then arrive at positing questions which for 20 years many experts in this country were able to answer for you and were able to bring you to the correct conclusions.

It began with the Americans’ decision to enthrone the Gucci Pashtun Karzai…with falsified elections which were carried out with falsified ballots, with an enthroned parliament which no Afghan understood; and with a constitution which no one at all could understand, it continued.

After that came the catastrophe which occasioned the words of my friend Peter Scholl-Latour when he then visited me at the ARD studio in Kabul – I believe it was 2006 – : Dear Paul, what we have staged here in the Hindukush will end in tragedy. Thus Peter Scholl-Latour, already in 2006, Frau Chancellor, a man to whom many Germans had listened. In this house, he was often smiled at and derided.

So as to similarly clear up another fairy tale: Not only the governing coalition but also you of the FDP and the Greens have always happily added your votes, although there were long since stories which depicted the truth of Afghanistan and the situation of the coalition troops. All of you added your votes.

This morning in the breakfast television we have heard from the chairmen of the Bundeswehr associations that we only still have an observer’s role and are no more an active player. Herr Foreign Minister, who in this Federal Republic of Germany is no more an active player, and by reason of the many failures he has made cannot negotiate eye to eye with other nations, can from Afghanistan draw only one consequence and immediately submit his resignation. In this house, all other is unacceptable…

You now arrive with deceptive packaging in your motion, Frau Chancellor, in which you have us believe we want to let enter only sought-after circles of persons. No, you say quite concretely: We want designated persons, including especially Afghan civilians requiring protection. – The Foreign Minister has today stated: It should be with all who once in any form had to do with Germany or with Germans. – This opens the sluices, ladies and gentlemen. On that account, we will not vote in favor of your motion, but abstain. Some hold back differently. – Respect for your conduct.

Alexander Lambsdorff (FDP): Like the Linke party! The horseshoe theory lives! An additional proof!

This is the point why we reject your motion: You want to open the sluices. You indeed grandly say: 2015 should not be repeated. – Yet you create the pre-requisites so that it does repeat. You quite knowingly want to bring a great number of people to Germany. That, ladies and gentlemen, my AfD delegation rejects. Not again 2015! Recovery for those who are there in secure countries of origin, but no sluicing program to Germany.

Bring the people to security, that is important!

Thank you, Frau President.

 

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