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Europe
Paul Wolfowitz response to German foreign minister Mr. Fischer
2003-04-18
It has only recently come to my attention that the German Foreign Minister, Mr. Joschka Fischer, has claimed that, in a meeting with me a week after the attacks of September 11, I allegedly said that "the United States should liberate a whole row of countries from their governments, if necessary by the use of force." I have never held the view the Foreign Minister attributes to me and did not express such a view in our meeting of Sept. 19, 2001, as the official notes of that meeting make clear. According to those contemporaneous notes, I stated that we needed not just the military but the whole range of instruments — including diplomatic, intelligence, criminal justice, and others — to sucessfully fight terrorism. Additionally, I stated that our approach to different countries would have to be "tailored" to each individual case. I am disappointed that the German Foreign Minister would choose to discuss the contents of a private meeting, but even more disappointed that he should do so inaccurately.

That's a rather public slap to Mr Foreign Minister's face. Not only is he talking out of school, but he's also being publicly called a damned liar. Too bad about those meeting notes. Y'gotta watch them...
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