[kennedy]

Either the EU should get a single seat or the US should get 50.

[BullDog108]

[snip] the best the US government could do would be to support "a developing nation's" bid for a permanent seat.

And that would be India!

Must be a b*tch for Germany to lose to India. LOL!

[GSlob]

Maybe the distinguished foreign visitor should be given some piece of cardboard with some high-sounding and meaningless text and a shiny paper seal affixed to it, like phony "Gift certificates" from Publishers Clearinghouse. Let nobody go away empty-handed.

[RedRover]

France gives Germany an inferiority complex. Schroeder is Chirac's poodle. What does that say about the Germans?

[John Jorsett]

Hell, emphasize the point that it's costly to cross the US by kicking France off.

[marron]

No one should be on the Security Council who is not able and ready to take action on the world scene. That would refer to countries who are prepared to deploy troops and money in the face of an international crisis.

If the Security Council is to mean anything at all, it should be limited to "countries that matter". That is a pretty short list.

[the anti-liberal]

stir up the Third World against China and the United States

So in other words, they're stiring up China and the United States against themselves. Doesn't sound like a very good strategy to me- the "Third World" v US of A and China?

[Patriot from Philly]

The German ambassador to the UN is a real nasty anti-American. The German ambassador to the US is a good guy.

The German mission to the UN is loaded with America haters and the US views their 2 year term as a rotating member to the UNSC as a disaster. Not only did they collude with France on Iraq, but they were the leaders in the successful attempt last year to deny US peacekeepers immunity from the ICC.

The Germans at the UN were gleeful, not now though.

[maica]

When German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder sits down with US President George W. Bush for lunch at the White House on Monday, he'll experience first-hand just how little support Germany can expect from its major ally.... LOLOLOL!

[ncountylee]

As Gerhard Schröder will be visiting anyway, time to discuss closing or restructuring of our German bases and revising the cost sharing agreements.

[quadrant]

I don't know why we worry about expansion of the Security Council. If you don't like the UN, you should support expansion. The more members the SC has, the less effective it will be.

[RJL]

When German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder sits down with US President George W. Bush for lunch at the White House on Monday, he'll experience first-hand just how little support Germany can expect from its major ally

LOL...Major ally! Der Spiegel has us confused with Germany's real major allies: France and Saddam Hussein!

I don't know how they could make such a mistake as to say that the US is a major ally of Germany's.

[Lancey Howard]

Cracks me up, all this New York Times talk about the UN, as if that turd wasn't already half swirled down the toilet. I wish Bush would just finish it off already.

[MarkL]

I want to know why there's still a single US serviceman in Germany, after the way they treated the US before the war.

Mark

[JarheadFromFlorida]

Well, let's see now. Germany, the country that brought the world the mass murdering monster Adolph Hitler, that refused to help us get rid of Saddam Hussein, another mass murdering monster, now wants our help? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!