Schröder's coalition near collapse over leak

The Times ^ | February 11, 2003 | Roger Boyes

[MadIvan]

The collapse of the German government is imminent. Thank God.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[CatoRenasci]

The idiots running Germany today are worse than the schemers and self-important toadies who ran the Weimar Republic.

[Myrddin]

The Greens were obviously trying to secretly send a bunch of U.N. "human shields" under the misnomer of "inspectors" to derail action against Saddam. They really get enraged when their underhanded behavior gets exposed. Too bad.

[Wphile]

BTTT!

[PhiKapMom]

I certainly hope so. Schroeder and the Greens scare me!

[Keith]

Do you really think so? From your lips to God's ears...

[glock rocks]

gerhard! door. ass.

[Petronski]

The idiots running Germany today are worse than the schemers and self-important toadies who ran the Weimar Republic.

Germany needs more leaders like Franz Von Papen!

[evad]

There's hope for the Krauts yet...

..still no hope for "le poosie meowsers"

[cpprfld]

The collapse of the German government is imminent. Thank God.

If the German government collapses, then the only country we can complain about is the French.

[Dog Gone]

We can only hope that it's on the verge of collapse. I find it extremely interesting, though, that the Green foreign minister is more mature and responsible than Schroeder.

I still wonder whether they would let the government collapse, since both would be out of a job, given voter sentiment.

[evad]

Newspaper Headlines in the year 2035

Last remaining Fundamentalist Muslim dies in the American Territory of the Middle East (formerly known as Iraq)

[Billthedrill]

If the Greens cross the aisle to form a coalition, Shroeder's toast. Fischer didn't strike me as a guy capable of that, but then I haven't been sitting at his desk the last month or so, either. This could get interesting.

[Wait4Truth]

The collapse of the German government is imminent. Thank God.

Hope you're right, Ivan!!!

[dfwgator]

Did Patrick Leahy move to Germany?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Herr Fischer was involved in attempts to boost the presence of UN inspectors in Iraq. He appears to have passed on some information to the Pope during a meeting on Friday. But the detail in the plan published yesterday, including a proposal for UN troops to man roadblocks in Iraq with French Mirage jets flying overhead, did not form part of Foreign Ministry calculations. German diplomats are well aware that an American plan for a robust UN inspection system was floated last year and dropped, having drawn little international enthusiasm. A European reworking of that plan, drawn up without the consultation of the United States, would be seen only as an affront by Washington.

Bugger them, and their European high handedness. Bugger them all.

How many 10s of millions did aggressive German racism kill in the last century? How much damage to stiff international resolve was wrought by French equivocation (they call it "diplomacy") over the past century?

More importantly, how much money did French and German commercial concerns earn off of building nuclear, biological and chemical research facilities in Iraq over the past 25 years?

[Willie Green]

The collapse of the German government is imminent. Thank God.

So what happens to Germany, Ivan?
Are they going to split up into East and West Germany again?
Or are they going to get sliced, diced, split-up and shared by the neighboring Euroweenie countries?

[CatoRenasci]

I was actually thinking of the smarmy Kurt von Schleicher....

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, this couldn't happen to a nicer guy except for some of his Islamofacist cash cows in Iraq, Iran, Lybia, and ?.

The only problem will his successor be even more of an anti American Socialist or some Watermelon?