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There's nothing quite like a spat between old friends. After German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder narrowly won re-election last week, the Bush Administration subjected him to a series of calculated snubs, punishment for a campaign in which he forcefully opposed a war in Iraq--and during which his Justice Minister (since forced to resign) reportedly compared Bush's tactics to Hitler's. One reason for the Bushies' anger, Administration sources claim, is that Schroder left a clear impression with Bush that he would eventually support the U.S. against Iraq. "Schroder looked him in the eye and lied," says...
...oddity is that for all the Administration's display of pique, the result of the German election is probably as good as Washington could have hoped for. The Greens party, Schroder's coalition partner, was the big winner at the polls. Its leader, Fischer, can now be expected to have even more of a free hand in foreign policy--and of all the leading German politicians, he has the greatest feel and affection for the U.S. "I know the United States very well," he told TIME. "Bob Dylan was more important for my political orientation than Karl Marx." Moreover, Schroder...
...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's reaction? He told Bush such foolishness would never happen in elections in his country...
...White House has been biting its tongue ever since the liberal Schroder started revitalizing his campaign by bashing the U.S. position on Iraq. What Bush finds especially galling about Schroder's performance is that the White House let the Chancellor know he would not be forced to take a public position on 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...
...remarks last week by Rudolf A. Scharping, the former defense minister under German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, about Jewish influence in American foreign policy was an all-too-familiar example of anti-Semitism. Similarly, if anyone in the divestment debate is saying, “Harvard supports Israel because Harvard is controlled by Jews,” that would be an example of anti-Semitism, and patently false...