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Following the act, Syria urged the U.N. to condemn the air strike, maintaining that it violated the U.N. charter as well as the 1974 disengagement agreement that followed the 1973 Yom Kippur war. Similarly, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder denounced the attack, as did various leaders from Arab nations. Here in the United States, however, the Bush administration supported Israel’s attack as a fair defense tactic. President Bush argued: “Israel’s got a right to defend herself; that Israel must not feel constrained in terms of defending the homeland.” Likewise...
German Chancellor GERHARD SCHRODER, staking his political future on the quick, successful implementation of his government's ambitious "Agenda 2010" economic reforms
...back to "Gerhard" for Mr. Bush - after a year of icy silence during which the U.S. President refused to lay eyes on German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. The feud was not just over policy; it was personal. Last fall, Schröder saved his sinking campaign by raising the sluice gates of anti-Americanism in Germany, while his Minister of Justice compared Bush to Hitler. The Bushies repaid the compliment by dumping Berlin in the junkyard of "Old Europe," putting out the word: "Talk to the Russians, punish the French, ignore the Germans." But at the U.N. General Assembly...
...Continent can't forge an identity without first agreeing on a common foreign policy, then it may never learn its true name. Like any battered family, Europe has learned how to hide behind half-truth and euphemism. It's a crucial survival skill. On Saturday Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Tony Blair - in Berlin for their first meeting since Europe's dramatic split earlier this year over the war in Iraq - tried to present a common front, but didn't quite pull it off. "We all want to see a stable Iraq," said Blair...
...informal meeting of the Security Council on Friday. Both Washington and London remained upbeat about the resolution's chances of success, despite early opposition from France and Germany, which staunchly opposed the war on Iraq. After a bilateral meeting in Dresden, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said the proposal did not give the U.N. sufficient political authority in Iraq and did not foresee a speedy enough handover of power to Iraqis. But though Schröder publicly called the proposal not "dynamic or complete enough," White House sources tell TIME that Germany has given...