The Social Democratic (SPD) candidate for the top job in the eastern German state of Thuringia’s September 1 election criticized on Wednesday the SPD leadership’s timing of a decision to back a US missile deployment in the country. Thuringia’s SPD Interior Minister Georg Maier on Wednesday expressed surprise at Monday’s decision, in which the SPD leadership expressed its support for the deployment of the long-range missiles, and said the timing is not helpful. “The decision does not make it any easier for us in the election campaign,” the SPD candidate told German public broadcaster Deutschlan…