Posted on 05/09/2003 2:51:10 AM PDT by kattracks
Schroeder builds bridges to U.S. after Iraq row
BERLIN, May 9 (Reuters) - Chancellor Gerhard Schroedersaid on Friday that Germany and the United States were more united than divided as he tried to mend ties soured by his vocal opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
"Germany and the United States are bound by a vital friendship. This friendship is founded on a solid basis of common experience and common values," Schroeder said according to the text of a speech he began giving to mark the 100th anniversary of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany.
He said a debate over whether the post-Cold War world order should be unipolar or multipolar was unproductive.
"Surely we are all agreed that we only want one pole in global politics around which we orientate ourselves, the pole of freedom, peace and justice," he said.
Schroeder was due to hold talks next week with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, the most senior U.S. official to visit Berlin since Schroeder won a September 2002 election in part on the back of his fierce criticism of U.S. plans for war in Iraq.
05/09/03 05:37 ET
Guess again, Gerhard.
We won't even begin to be "more united than divided" until YOU are out of office.
I thought it was more anti-American than just the war in Iraq.
Bipolar disorder is more like it
"Surely we are all agreed that we only want one pole in global politics around which we orientate ourselves, the pole of freedom, peace and justice," he said.
The axis of "wheezes" (Old Europe) is turning upon itself.
You are so right. Mania is over, and depression is in.
I was wondering about that, because Chirac and his pet de Villepin are still spewing away at us, and here's Shroeder trying to play nice-nice with the U.S.
We in the US thought this was true too, until Germany rejected the US and stood by Saddam Hussein, a brutal and murderous dictator, known worldwide as a madman.
"Surely we are all agreed that we only want one pole in global politics around which we orientate ourselves, the pole of freedom, peace and justice," he said.
The US believes this. France, Germany and Russia don’t. They were easily bought by Saddam Hussein with dirty Iraqi oil money to overlook “freedom, peace and justice” for the long suffering Iraqi people. If they stabbed their ally, the US, in the back at the same time, so be it, no problem.
Chancellor Schroeder, please go back and plot with your new allies: Saddam Hussein, France, Russia, we in the US don’t want to hear your BS any longer.
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