Sorry, TGA, he’s never getting near the WH at this point in time, don’t even think about the ranch. Via Zogbyblog.
Schröder says call for troops made him feel sick
By Hannah Cleaver in Berlin
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has said a call from his Green Party coalition allies for German troops to join any United Nations force in Iraq made him "want to puke". Mr Schröder, who was re-elected on the strength of his opposition to the Iraq war, has consistently ruled out such a move. He used the phrase in a private meeting with MPs of his Social Democratic Party (SPD), adding that the Greens should stop acting as if they were both part of the ruling coalition and an opposition party. The comments were widely reported in Germany yesterday, only days after Mr Schröder and his Green vice-chancellor, Joschka Fischer, said they would fight the 2006 general election as a team.
Both parties attempted to play down the remarks. Bela Anda, the government spokesman, refused to confirm or deny what Mr Schröder had said. But the SPD’s parliamentary party head, Franz Muntefering, said there were "voices which were a bit strange" among the Greens and that the chancellor had only been reflecting wider SPD opinion. Mr Fischer said: "I never comment on cabinet colleagues in public, and certainly not the chancellor." Angelika Beer, the Green Party politician whose comments first enraged the chancellor, has since backtracked, ruling out any kind of German military involvement in Iraq "at the moment".
So, what do the Greens see that Gerhard can’t or won’t??? Money, status, grinding the US’ face into the ground?? |