Word: hitleritis
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...conference dominated by virulent, unrelenting anti-Semitism—not to be confused with anti-Zionism—replete with sales of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion taking place just outside the meeting halls. Ubiquitous flyers enthusiastically wondered, “What if Hitler Had Won?” The Arab Lawyers’ Union distributed books of cartoons featuring hook-nosed Jews. The conference itself was hardly better. Did you know that virtually all the world’s racism and intolerance is perpetuated in a country of six million with an area significantly smaller than Maine...
George Bush usually blows off criticism from Europeans, but he lost it when he heard that German Justice Minister Herta Daubler-Gmelin compared him to Hitler. "Bush wants to distract attention from his domestic problems," she said. "That's a popular method. Even Hitler did that." Daubler-Gmelin says she was misquoted. Rather than blaming the Frau, however, Bush lashed out at German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder in private phone conversations with other world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin. "He believes that Schroder created the environment for that kind of comment to take place," says a senior Administration official. Putin...
...Iraq before election day. The Bush team expected a little good behavior in return, but Schroder kept stomping. He did send Bush an apology about his minister's remark, but White House officials viewed it as "arrogant." Says another senior Administration official: "If you had asked me before the Hitler comment, I would have said this is retrievable. Now, boy, I'll tell...
...eder, who heads a coalition of Social Democrats and Greens, narrowly won re-election last week. But he badly damaged relations with the U.S. during a campaign in which he forcefully opposed a war in Iraq-and his justice minister (since fired) reportedly compared Bush's tactics to Hitler's. The Bushies were furious, and embarked on a post-election campaign of calculated snubs of Schröeder and his deputies. The odd thing is that, for all the Administration's display of pique, the German election turned out about as well as Washington could have hoped. The Green party...
...What was a nuisance was that he was so much about law and procedure,” said audience member Francis Woehrling. “But in international situations that doesn’t apply. So we didn’t have to remove Milosevic or Hitler...