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Germany: Opposition to US War Plans Sways Election
(Steven Erlanger, New York Times, September 23, 2002)
Buoyed by his refusal to support a war in Iraq, Mr. Schroder's Social Democrats were hurt in the last days of this bitter campaign by the reported remarks of his justice minister, comparing President Bush's tactics on Iraq to those of Hitler. . . . Today Mr. Schroder continued to defend his opposition to a war against Iraq, saying, "Between friends, there can be factual differences but they should not be personalized, particularly between close allies." . . . Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, visiting Warsaw, echoed comments made last week by the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that the diplomatic atmosphere between Washington and Berlin had been "poisoned." . . . "Schroder opened the sluice gates and realized how much hay he could make with careful anti-Americanism," Mr. Joffe said. "He thought he could just slap George Bush on the shoulder afterward like a local party honcho and say, `Let's forgive and forget.' But I think he's grievously miscalculated on that."

posted by LoZo 4:42 PM