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U.S. Slams German Minister for Bush-Hitler Comment
Reuters ^
| 09/19/2002
Posted on 09/19/2002 11:46:19 AM PDT by Pokey78
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's spokesman on Thursday expressed outrage that Germany's justice minister drew a link between Bush's saber-rattling on Iraq to the tactics used by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Spokesman Ari Fleischer said the United States and Germany have long had a strong relationship, "but this statement by the justice minister is outrageous and is inexplicable."
The regional Schwaebisches Tagblatt newspaper quoted German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's justice minister, Herta Daeubler-Gmelin, as saying "Bush wants to divert attention from his domestic problems. It's a classic tactic. It's one that Hitler used."
The Bush administration has been none too pleased that criticizing the United States over Iraq has been a key campaign plank for Schroeder in his re-election battle but has refrained from publicly commenting on the issue.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Germany; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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posted on
09/19/2002 11:46:20 AM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
Maybe its time to consider cutting ties with the idiots that twice plunged the world into war during the twentieth century. Do these people even have a clue about right and wrong?
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posted on
09/19/2002 11:50:12 AM PDT
by
MoGalahad
To: Pokey78; dighton; Orual; general_re
Dear Herta Daeubler-Gmelin
Please read this thread to know what Americans think of you and your idiotic remark.
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posted on
09/19/2002 11:51:26 AM PDT
by
aculeus
Well, atleast we now have direct evidence of anti-American opinions in EU governments. We can quote this German everytime some "coffe-house intellectual poser" from Europe spouts off.
To: Pokey78
How dare he insult President Bush and Americans.
I bet this creep is related to Hitler.
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posted on
09/19/2002 11:58:47 AM PDT
by
BlueAngel
To: BlueAngel
How dare he insult President Bush and Americans. Actually it's a she, but you couldn't tell that from her picture, must have been a former East German swimmer.
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posted on
09/19/2002 12:00:08 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: MoGalahad
Maybe it's time to start Freeping the
German embassy!
You can send in online complaints here. Postal address, email and phone numbers are on this page.
(Warning: Pages are VERY slow to load.)
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posted on
09/19/2002 12:01:00 PM PDT
by
Timesink
To: Timesink
This is the gratitude we get for saving them from the Soviet Union for 45 years.
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posted on
09/19/2002 12:02:59 PM PDT
by
tomahawk
To: Pokey78
"It's one that Hitler used"
I think this is the Marxist line - Hitler didn't do what he did even though he said he would do just what he did for years, but he did it because of a "crisis in capitalism" blah, blah, blah.
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posted on
09/19/2002 12:04:24 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: Pokey78
This is a good way to get Americans to dislike you German bastards even more then we already do there hans. Just shut up and go invade Poland again dirtbag.
To: dfwgator
Any former female east german swimmer is no longer a female....after all the hormone shots and steriods they took, they all grew beards and penises.....What do you call them now?
To: dfwgator
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posted on
09/19/2002 12:06:56 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
This is beyond the pale.
Hope Stoiber wins.
To: Pokey78
Fraulein Dobbler-Smellin' can kizzen mein heinie.
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posted on
09/19/2002 12:09:33 PM PDT
by
TheBigB
To: Pokey78
Herta's the b!th condemning Americans by holding terror info hostage, yet claims it is because the US condemns people to death in the courts. She also says all Europe thinks that way... except they do assisted Suicide in Holland, Switzerland, legalized drugs and prostitution and what not other life peddling business. So we cannot have a due process, but they can be emotional barbarians over there,
To: Timesink
Hey, if SAP built the software, no wonder they're slow.
To: aculeus; dighton; general_re
![](http://www.bundestag.de/mdb14/mdbjpg/d/daeubhe0.jpeg)
Dr. Herta Däubler-Gmelin
Please print out for the pupose of performing unspeakable acts thereupon.
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posted on
09/19/2002 12:11:01 PM PDT
by
Orual
To: Joe Boucher
Is there some reason that every time some extreme leftist spouts off that every poster on FR has to slander the leftist's entire nation? I expect there are plenty of Germans who disagree with her. It's the same as judging the entire United States by something Tom Daschle says.
To: Pokey78
Wasn't there a FReeper who claims to work for the Pentagon sying similar stuff recently?
To: Pokey78; MoGalahad; aculeus; willgetsome; BlueAngel; dfwgator; tomahawk; Shermy; Joe Boucher; ...
I just emailed the following to the German Embassy:
How DARE your justice minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin compare our president to the most evil man of the 20th century? Her vicious, disgusting statement will not quickly be forgotten by the American public, nor by the Bush Administration! It is precisely this sort of pure, visceral hatred on the part of the Schroeder government that is going to ensure that you will all be working for Edmund Stoiber come Monday morning.
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posted on
09/19/2002 12:14:40 PM PDT
by
Timesink
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