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Merkel strongly rejects Iranian leader's letter [... the saga continues]
REUTERS ^ | Fri Jul 21, 2006 | Louis Charbonneau

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: adolfinejad; ahmadinejad; angelamerkel; chancellor; fromtehranwithlove; germany; iran; iraniannukes; iranletter; israel; merkel; nothanks; nukes
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To: LibLieSlayer
As do the rats in this country. We all have our dumba$$es!

In a certain way, Germany and the US are very similar: Both consist of a number of states with often totally different livestyles and political orientations.

Our Texas is called Bavaria, rural Rhineland-Palatinate would be one of the midwestern states and so on...

E.g. the political socialization of a middle-aged citizen in Hesse (which was part of the American sector) and his counterpart in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (formerly part of the GDR) has been a totally different one, just like you can't compare a Californian with an Idahoan.
41 posted on 07/21/2006 2:02:31 PM PDT by wolf78
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To: AdmSmith

pong


42 posted on 07/21/2006 2:09:51 PM PDT by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: nuconvert
Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only please!


43 posted on 07/21/2006 2:24:31 PM PDT by Michael81Dus
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To: kesg

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?


44 posted on 07/21/2006 2:24:39 PM PDT by seppel
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To: marron

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.


45 posted on 07/21/2006 2:27:57 PM PDT by Michael81Dus
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To: wolf78

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


46 posted on 07/21/2006 3:13:49 PM PDT by John Semmens
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To: John Semmens

And people don't think we are in the 1st stages of WWIII?


47 posted on 07/21/2006 4:44:25 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (evolution has both deified and degraded humanity)
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To: brownsfan; sandbar
Take a look at the new automobile technology being developed by this startup company named Tesla Motors.

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.

48 posted on 07/21/2006 5:22:25 PM PDT by defenderSD ("Rise early, work hard, strike oil." - J. Paul Getty)
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To: wolf78

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.


49 posted on 07/21/2006 5:33:17 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: John Semmens

Oh my Dear Lord!

Why isn't this story number one with all the world's media???????


50 posted on 07/21/2006 5:58:32 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: wolf78
Of course it needs to be answered. A good start would be sending a panzer division to Iraq and putting it right on the Iranian border. It might concentrate a few minds.

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?

51 posted on 07/21/2006 6:04:07 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: Alas Babylon!
He said as much in his Spiegel interview, in Germany, in German. Everybody on earth knows he is a Nazi and at least as mad as Hitler. Fewer know that he is also an experienced torturer and executioner. He will get nukes and he will use them, and the world will stand and watch. "But that can't possibly happen, because it would be bad". WW II was bad, and it happened. Men deliberately giving Joe Stalin atom bombs was bad, and it happened. Etc. Hell will be paid in full for all our infighting and stupidity and sloth. Mark my words.
52 posted on 07/21/2006 6:07:05 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: JasonC
I can't disagree with you at all. In 1917 we fought "The War To End All Wars". Guess no one thought we'd be back "over there" in only two decades, huh?

My biggest fear is not the tin horns around the world, including Iran. It is our countrymen, who have forgotten 9/11 and what we then vowed. I often wonder if this generation of Americans are actually up to the challenge that is being laid out to them, precisely because they've lost the vigilance they had in the Fall of 2001. They think things are bad in Iraq right now, well wait for things to really hit the fan. Then they'll know bad.

Once more into the fire because we got too comfy codling lunatics with crazy followers who have lots of weapons. Appeasement NEVER, EVER works!
53 posted on 07/21/2006 8:14:47 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!
Appeasement isn't tried because people think it works. Appeasement is tried because on lot don't want anything to work, and another don't want to face things or get off their backsides. And the former know how to play the latter. It isn't generational, though. The Brits of the interwar period had the same pacifists, US liberals of the cold war defended Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs, the children of the 60s worshipped Fidel, Mao, and Che, their leading intellectuals sold out SVN and excused the Khymer Rogue, Bill Clinton heard the Rwandan genocide on the radio and worked to keep even the hapless UN from doing anything about it - etc.

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.

54 posted on 07/21/2006 8:25:18 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: JasonC

Sadly, I agree.


55 posted on 07/21/2006 8:28:48 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: dashing doofus

Kohl? Don't you mean Schroeder?


56 posted on 07/21/2006 8:32:07 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: Judith Anne
Thanks.

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.

57 posted on 07/21/2006 8:52:57 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: brownsfan

LOL!


58 posted on 07/21/2006 8:53:45 PM PDT by cmsgop ( President Mahmud Ahmadinejad Must Purify Himself in The Waters of Lake Minnetonka)
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To: NonValueAdded
Does any doubt still exist that this guy is a complete nut case?

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.

59 posted on 07/21/2006 9:24:28 PM PDT by danmar ("The two most common elements in the Universe is hydrogen and stupidity")
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To: Unam Sanctam

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.


60 posted on 07/22/2006 1:13:41 AM PDT by Schweinhund
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