USS Clueless - Who's this we, white man?
     
     
 

Stardate 20020918.0659

(On Screen): Joschka Fischer is at it again. Using his official position as Foreign Minister of Germany, he issues yet another proclamation pandering to Germany's antiwar left, in the run up to Sunday's election where Fischer's Green Party is by all reports not likely to do well enough to maintain its place in a ruling coalition. Ostensibly directed to Washington, this announcement is firmly aimed inward. But it hit the international press anyway.

Germany urged the United States on Wednesday to end war threats against Iraq, saying the United Nations should first be allowed to test Saddam Hussein's offer to readmit weapons inspectors.

"In no case should we escalate," Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said on ZDF television. "There's still a big danger of war, and that is a point where we really have a differing opinion."

It's amazing how one little word in a statement can rankle so badly. Who's this "we", Green Man?

I fully agree: in no case should Germany escalate. Germany should immediately cease all its preparations for war in Iraq.

Another quote from this same article:

Schroeder says a war to oust Saddam would vastly complicate Middle East peace efforts and risks breaking up the international coalition against terrorism.

On the contrary; it will in the long run vastly simplify Middle East peace efforts. And it can't break up the international coalition against terrorism because there is no such thing and never has been. On the other hand, it risks breaking up the international coalition against the US struggle against terrorism, and that would be a mighty fine thing.


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