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| German minister's comparison of Bush to Hitler... |
| 2002-09-19 |
| The White House isn't happy that a Germany government minister compared President Bush to Hitler. Germany's justice minister (Herta Daeubler-Gmelin) told some labor union members yesterday that Bush was going after Iraq to divert attention from domestic problems. A German paper quoted her as saying "That's a popular method. Even Hitler did that." Did he call people like Herta stoopid and tactless ideologues, too? White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer calls the statement "outrageous and inexplicable." That's the way press secretaries say "stoopid and tactless." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 Screw Germany. The main US presence in Germany is V Corps and 3rd Air Force. That's a starggeringly potent force, which would go through Saddam's cockroach army like prunes through a short Granny. Germany needs to be taught the price of its moral equivocation. |
| Posted by: David Gillies 2002-09-20 09:55:49 |
| #2 Someplace I read that we have 70,000 troops in Europe, mostly Germany, with dependants, all spending loads of American dollars. Do the Germans really want to see their economy take a bigger slide than it already has by pissing us off and we take all our toys and go home? |
| Posted by: Chuck 2002-09-20 05:39:21 |
| #1 Gerhard looks willing to sacrifice American-German long term relations in order to get re-elected, and the people seem willing to go along..we'll probably see the drawdown of US forces in Germany, sent to the Gulf, and not replaced. Let the German economy support their social give-aways AND self-defense expenses. We no longer need each other, and it's become obvious that NATO is a one-way relationship (except for, surprisingly to me, Tony Blair's Britain - hail Brittania!). Let the EUniks chatter themselves to death, rant and rave about the US Cowboy, just get out of our way and don't expect favors from us |
| Posted by: Frank G 2002-09-19 20:15:50 |