Germany's former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder on Iraq and Bush:

[Call Me Wesley]

SCHRÖDER ON IRAQ
"The Mother of all Misjudgements"

In his memoir, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder recalls the difficult period during the run-up to the Iraq war -- a sequence of events that drove a wedge through trans-Atlantic relations and the European Union. It was an absurd era of "freedom fries" and the political crucifixion of Hans Blix.

More: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,444748,00.html

SCHRÖDER ON US PRESIDENT BUSH
"Almost Biblical Semantics"

That US President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder were not the best of friends was hardly a secret. But Schröder's memoirs point to a deeper distrust of Bush's religious faith.

More: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,444751,00.html

[rwork]

1. Schrub's faith is a big act.

Maybe some day when the people who prop him up are gone, he will look in a mirror and maybe realize what he has done.

[Bruichladdich]

2. I won't bet on that, he is doing that all on purpose

I just wonder, where all this superelite people want to live, when world has turned out to be contaminated by depleted uranium, or worse weapons, and the rest is destroyed by the consequences of globla warming?

I hope, they will finally find out, that you can't eat money, and starve as millions do already today!

[blm]

3. He'll be just fine sharing the millions of acres of land above Guarani Aquifer

with RevMoon. They didn't put US military base near there last year for nothing.

[newyawker99]

4. Hi Bruichladdich!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Bruichladdich]

5. Hi there! Thanks for your welcome n/t

[QMPMom]

6. I'll be getting that issue of der Spiegel tomorrow.

DH loves to translate his German magazines and newspapers for me. I'm looking forward to this issue and the one after with reader responses.