U.S. Slams German Minister for Bush-Hitler Comment

Reuters ^ | 09/19/2002

[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.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Just in case you missed WWII in history class let me point out that Germany and all those nice ohoompa,ohoompa beer garden dancers,decimated the world in thier quest for world domination.The United States and our allies, beat the
he$$ out of them and then stayed around to help them rebuild. I am of German descent but these people disgust me. After WWI and WWII only the very mentally challenged would trust them.

[PhilDragoo]

herta.daeubler-gmelin@bundestag.de

The Winner of the Most Asinine Remark for 2002 is Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's justice minister, Herta Daeubler-Gmelin.

Daeubler-Gmelin's comparison of the American president to the fuerher of the German Third Reich is enough to gag a maggot.

Decent Germans will show Gerhard Chancre the door on Sunday--and he can take his HIV-positive hundin with him.

[The Real Eddie01]

Do you drive a Chrysler, VW or Audi? Hmmm?

German Engineering. I'd rather own a car that was produced by a free republic than a car produced by a socialist hell hole. In stead of prolonging the agony, perhaps the further away the German people feel their promised Utopia is the quicker they will be to elect a conservative.

Reminds me of a line from Caddy Shack. "Danny, I've sent boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. Felt I owed it to them."

Eddie01

[cake_crumb]

Who the heck IS Herta Daeubler-Gmelin? A politician? I was researching something else. I heard about the &^%$#@! Hitler reference, but didn't know who had said it (except that it wasn't Schroeder).

[cake_crumb]

Oh. Minister of Justice. Yeesh. Shouldn't have picked today to start cutting down the old coffee intake. (**administering face-slap**) Yeesh.

[cake_crumb]

ROFLOL!

[Faraday]

"Bush wants to divert attention from his domestic problems. It's a classic tactic. It's one that Hitler used."

The most obvious fact is that she is accusing President Bush of the very thing she is guilty of. In a campaign made difficult for the Social Democrats by a weak economy and persistant high unemployment, the socialists bring out the American war-monger boogey man as a way of diverting domestic attention from their own domestic failings. This is very Clintonian. I hope the German people see through this slander and depose this slime. The American people should not forget. NATO is getting entirely untenable.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

wait . . . wait . . . wait . . .

how many Jews did the United States exterminate? oh yeah, the answer is NONE.

How many Jews did Germany exterminate? oh yeah, the answer is SIX MILLION.

Who is a Hitler?

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Well,maybe we should bomb germany with b-52's and glass jars full of urine!

[dfwgator]

How many Jews did Germany exterminate? oh yeah, the answer is SIX MILLION.

While you're at it, how many Slavs did Germany exterminate?

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

I called and got a German Secretary who spoke no English. My German has been mostly forgotten and the words I do remember are not for polite conversation. Everyone has to call back at 8:00 AM tomorrow.

[cake_crumb]

"Germany's knife-edge general election campaign took an extraordinary new turn yesterday when the conservative candidate, Edmund Stoiber, pledged himself to the deportation of 4,000 alleged Islamic militants if he is voted in as chancellor on Sunday."

Now let's hope nobody asassinates HIM before the election...in this case, once is a terrible crime and a tragedy ...twice will be a terrible criminal PATTERN.

[WyCoKsRepublican]

My German blood runs deep, but I am somewhat digusted the them on several issues. We kicked their tails in WWI and WWII. I 've been to Germany and loved it, but don't understand their irrational behavior on the terrorist issue. I will continue to celebrate Oktoberfest and drink St Pauley Girl and Beck's Dark, but to my fellow Krauts......shame on you!.....sincerely, American

[debg]

she's just following the islamicist cum leftist mantra. it's cheap PR for them...lots of old material (words, pictures) for them to recycle, twist to their ends. and, unfortunately, it's an image that will cause many unimformed in the west to question: are we acting like hitler? this is very devisive, imo, and needs to be nipped in the bud immediately.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

While you're at it, how many Slavs did Germany exterminate?

millions?

Of course the people who have killed the most are all the communist regimes.

oops, we're not supposed to say that?

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

it's a man, baby!

[cake_crumb]

"The most obvious fact is that she is accusing President Bush of the very thing she is guilty of. In a campaign made difficult for the Social Democrats by a weak economy and persistant high unemployment, the socialists bring out the American war-monger boogey man as a way of diverting domestic attention from their own domestic failings. This is very Clintonian"

Well said BUMP!!

[philetus]

GERMAN CHANCELLOR OFFERS CONDOMS FOR VOTES
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