Posted on 07/21/2006 12:35:13 PM PDT by wolf78
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday forcefully rejected a letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seeking cooperation with Germany, saying it did not even deserve an answer.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki delivered the letter to the German embassy in Tehran earlier this week. A German government official who saw the letter told Reuters it criticised Israel and said Germany and Iran should cooperate in dealing with Zionism and solving the Palestinian problem.
"He's repeating the old thinking, which is totally unacceptable to us," Merkel told ZDF state television.
"Israel's right to exist is a key part of our state policy and he calls this into question time and again; and at the same time our offer -- an offer which really gives the Iranian people hope for the future -- is not mentioned once," she added.
"That's not in order and thus does not need to be answered."
Germany and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council offered Iran a package of incentives in June to end Tehran's stand-off with the West over its nuclear programme.
Government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said earlier on Friday the letter did not mention Tehran's nuclear standoff with the West, or the current fighting in Lebanon and Israel.
Berlin's relations with Ahmadinejad have been soured by his repeated denial of the Holocaust, the Nazi massacre of 6 million Jews, and his call for Israel to be wiped off the map.
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why? I thought Germans were all racists. Why should they be ashamed if they have already been labeled? Or do they have to prove their good intentions to someone?
I wished Mr. dye-hair had never governed here, but unfortunately, he has. And that´s why things will never be the same. Germany has been unreliable once. Of course, Merkel has restored the good relations and is now promoting worldwide peace and security with our allies, instead against them. But the US now knows that Germany could have another anti-American leader again. We all will watch out in the future.
An excerpt from the letter:
Iran's Ahmadinejad Sends Letter to Germany's Merkel
In a letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has chastized the German leadership for failure to reinstate "the enlightened anti-Zionist policies of the great Adolf Hitler." "Hitler was blocked from fulfilling the dream of a Jew-free world by the untimely interference of the U.S. imperialist forces who invaded his country," wrote Ahmadinejad. "But he was headed in the right direction and made a good start. Why have you not taken steps to resume his great work?" Ahmadinejad closed his letter saying that much to his regret that despite Germany's historical contribution to the battle against the Jewish pestilence, he was adding Germany to the list of nations slated to bear the consequences of "Muslims' righteous wrath."
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
And people don't think we are in the 1st stages of WWIII?
The oil companies aren't trying to keep us dependent. Our dependency grew from cheap oil in the 80s and 90s, which limited the incentivies for investment in innovative new techology. Now that oil isn't cheap, I'm seeing a lot of new technology being developed and used for oil drilling, ethanol production, and to make motor vehicles more fuel efficient. We're just ending a long era of cheap oil, so it's going to take a few more years to turn the supply/demand ratio around and start to end our dependence on foreign oil.
There was also a great thread a few days ago about the potentially huge Bakken Shale oil field in North Dakota and Montana. There is a vast amount of heavy oil in the Americas and the ME that can be developed in the years ahead and there's also a lot of oil left behind in old fields that couldn't be extracted previously because they needed horizontal drilling to get at the oil. Now that we have new horizontal drilling technology, the oil companies are starting to bring up a lot of the oil remaining in old field and in areas that couldn't be drilling into before. Once we get through this Iranian nuclear crisis, I think oil prices will probably stabilize into a trading range and we'll see increasing use of homegrown biofuels and electric cars.
This guy is so lacking in every thing but Stupidity! Germany concieved of , financed ,and populated the state of Isreal. He should be talking to france.
Oh my Dear Lord!
Why isn't this story number one with all the world's media???????
Why Europeans expect to be able to conduct world politics without ever being remotely serious about anything, as a matter of their own independent activity as a state, is a great standing mystery in our time. They act as though it were fated by the stars above that only the US would ever do anything, and they are only called upon to express approval or withhold it, in leading editorials. When was the last time Germany had its own actual policy on anything, actually implemented directly, by themselves, instead of by pleading with Washington?
Wherever a tyrant is intent on murdering millions, look around a little, and you will find a leftist kissing his feet. They talk about peace but they worship ruthless killers. One is just talk. They like the ruthles killers because they go after the dastardly capitalist establishment types who haven't made said leftists rulers of the world, yet.
Sadly, I agree.
Kohl? Don't you mean Schroeder?
Doesn't really make me too sad, though, truth be told. I like my scotch on the rocks and well diluted with soda, but I prefer reality straight.
My life is just fine. And I learned quite a while ago that peace of mind does not depend on even one's own life being fine, let alone on such things.
It'd be nice if people were wiser and kinder, and had less trouble as a result. But in the end, men enjoy the nature of things and their lives, or they do not, largely for reasons far more personal, inward, and intellectual than any of this nonsense.
LOL!
Beg to differ!...this guy is a calculated individual in any aspect of the political spectrum.
He embraces totally the Hitler doctrine and he is testing the waters with the German government and other fringe elements therein.
Do not underestimate him as a nut case, he is a very calculated individual with a deeply set of ideas to entangle the West (namely Germany) to isolate and eradicate the Jews as a nation.
Well, most sensible Germans feared not that Bush is an obstacle to peace, but that he's instrumental in uniting the Middle East in islamist extremism.
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