"Base closures would hit us very hard," fretted Ole Kruse, spokesman for the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg, home of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division.

Baumholder, a town in rural western Germany, will lose $150 million a year if the U.S. military training area leaves, Mayor Volkmar Pees complained today to the Associated Press.

"We view this with great concern," Bamberg spokesman Steffen Schuetzewohl chimed in.

Tough luck, Germans. Should've thought of that before you launched all those vicious anti-U.S. demonstrations!

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