Classified Papers Prove German Warnings to Bush

[mgc1961]

Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer made every effort they could. The German chancellor and foreign minister spared no effort with their appeals, whether in public or private, in small groups or with the eyes of the entire world upon them. In the end, though, it was all for naught. Then-United States President George W. Bush wouldn't allow anyone to change his mind. He was dead set on launching a war against Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and thereby bringing "freedom," as he put it, to the Middle East. It was a freedom that Bush described as " God's gift to mankind."

Over time, however, this would-be gift from God has grown to become the biggest foreign-policy disaster in US history since the Vietnam War. The war in Iraq and its subsequent occupation has cost more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians and over 4,000 American soldiers their lives. Washington's credibility has been severely damaged, and Iraq will remain a trouble spot for the foreseeable future.

It is facts like these that have helped stoke the outrage since Bush recently published his memoirs, "Decision Points," in which he claims that Schröder -- the very man who won re-election in 2002 in large part based on his opposition to the war -- assured him in January 2002 that Germany would support the United States if it decided to go to war against Iraq. For his part, Schröder was quick to deny Bush's comments, claiming instead that "(t)he former American president is not telling the truth."

Here's the link: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,730979,00.html

[Botany]

1. and this will get no play in the u.s. press

bottom line bush and cheney lied us into a war for oil & money.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/news/entry/189/

[PearliePoo2]

2. Decisions Points is....

a book of lies, "written" (cough, cough) by a war criminal in an attempt to re-write history.

[hootinholler]

9. It will fit right in tho the new

Pretzledental Liebury

-Hoot

[Angry Dragon]

10. To be read and used in the bathroom only

[felinetta]

3. Bush can try to re-write history, but thankfully it will never be successful.

[SpiralHawk]

4. ..the Ministry of Republicon Fabrication

ptoooooey

[xchrom]

5. Recommend

[Enthusiast]

6. K&R

The U.S. mainstream media will completely ignore this. And has completely ignored this.

[Old and In the Way]

7. "the biggest foreign-policy disaster in US history since the Vietnam War."

Well, yes, it was. But it was a great financial boom to the MIC, particularly the Carlyle Group and Halliburton - companies that Bush and Cheney had close ties to. It's not every day that the head of a major industrial nation calls an American President a liar.

[Overseas]

8. K&R ! //nt