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BENJAMIN WEINTHAL: BOTH BUSH AND LANTOS COULD AGREE THAT GERHARD SCHRÖDER IS A POLITICAL PROSTITUTE…….

Gerhard Schröder would have made an excellent politician in the late DDR, in fact, he’s a caricature of that era, all smiles, but coupled with a hard fisted, statist mentality and a disgusting anti-American sentiment. KGS
Gerhard Schröder missed his chance for a 
being in a government that really was anti-American

Bush Says Schröder Betrayed Him on Iraq

November 17, 2010 4:21 P.M.

By Benjamin Weinthal

Berlin — No real surprise here: Former president George W. Bush’s discloses in his new memoir that former chancellor Gerhard Schröder violated Bush’s trust (and the American people’s) by supporting the Iraq war, then backing out. According to Bush, Schröder assured him in a January 2002 Oval Office meeting that “what is true of Afghanistan is true of Iraq. Nations that sponsor terror must face consequences. If you make it fast and make it decisive, I will be with you.”

“I took that as a statement of support,” Bush writes. “But when the German elections arrived later that year, Schröder had a different take. He denounced the possibility of using force against Iraq. His Justice Minister said, ‘Bush wants to divert attention from domestic problems…Hitler also did that.’

“It was hard to think of anything more insulting than being compared to Hitler by a German official.”

Last week, Schröder — who is now an executive with Russian energy giant Gazprom — responded to the charge: “The former American president is not telling the truth.”

Schröder is well-versed in political Volksnähe, which means he has a populist touch that can connect with a kind of groupthink mentality shared by many Germans — in this case, a mentality of radical German pacifism and anti-Americanism. His Social Democratic party’s come-from-behind victory in 2002 has been attributed to Schröder’s aggressive anti-American campaign. As Malte Lehming put it in the Wall Street Journal, “They saved themselves with thunderous anti–Iraq war propaganda, playing upon strong anti-American resentments.”

The contrast between Bush and Schröder in terms of democracy promotion could not be starker. Bush advocates a “freedom agenda” for anti-democratic countries; Schröder has aligned himself with Vladimir Putin, whom he terms a “flawless democrat,” and last year intensely courted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in an effort to advance German-Iranian trade.

In light of Schröder’s cheerleading for anti-Western forces and Russian gas interests, the late Democratic congressman and Holocaust survivor Tom Lantos once called him a “political prostitute.” That might be a sentiment on which Bush and Lantos could reach a bipartisan agreement.

NOTE:  The Tundra Tabloids also happens to agree with Schröder’s observation that Vladimir Putin is indeed a “flawless democrat”, in other words he’s a statist politician who favors mob rule. A republic guided by a constitution steeped in limiting government, is the only way to ensure a continued freedom, and why the US constitution is being assaulted as we speak by the Obama administration and Democrat party apparatchiks. 

2 Responses

  1. Your rewriting of history is a massive waste of time. It takes a lot of nerve to try to get people to remember Bush's false-premise warmongering as anything but. But please, continue wasting your time on this. Time Tundra Tabloids wastes spreading obvious historical distortions about the Iraq War is time it is not spending cheering on non-Muslim African migration to Finland.

  2. Useless revisionists like yourself and the Gnome, need to be debunked at every turn. Don't worry about my use of time, it's well spent.

    Long live freedom and individual liberty.

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