THE GERMAN MAGAZINE DIE ZEIT notes the irony of German complaints about American troop withdrawals. MedienKritik has a translation:

Just a year and a half ago the majority of Germans were certain the USA and its President represented a greater danger to world peace than Saddam Hussein, and the US armed forces were considered fearsome executors of the sinister US plans for world domination. Now, however, German politicians and union people, who marched at the very front of the peace demonstrations, are pouting and grimacing like children who feel they have been left in the lurch by Daddy because the number one war-monger wants to deny us the trusted presence of our uniformed American friends.

Heh. Actually, they were totally consistent. Opposition to the war against Saddam was based on a fear that it would cost Germany jobs and money, and so is opposition to the U.S. troop withdrawal. On a related note, read this.