Just a link, haven’t read it, can’t comment – but if you always wanted to know what the US are fighting for, click here and find out. There’s also a comment from some (seemingly) left German academics and the American reply on that page. I’ll read and comment on it later.
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FT: FDP criticizes Schroeder’s stance on Iraq
(Link) I really don’t know why the papers pay so much attention to politicians during campaign time. They really ought not to.
Wolfgang Gerhardt, the boring old possible successor of Joschka Fischer in the foreign office has given an interview. Now that is something he does not do very often since he was ousted as chairman of the FDP by Guido Westerwelle in 2001.
He’s a politician, so he probably likes media attention. And he probably wants more of it. And he thinks he will get some for criticising the chancellor for something I am pretty sure neither of both actually has: an (informed) stance on Iraq.
It’s election times, people. As a reminder, election times are those in which policy is the last thing on a politician’s mind, for the product/market diagrams his campaign staff have prepared dominate the thinking part of his/her brain. So my guess is, should they actually have an informed stance on Iraq (and I *very* much doubt that) neither of them is going to tell it to the public before the election.
Germany is a democracy. And we have tv. And one and one still adds up to two.
Soundbites.
German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder stated today that in his opinion a war against Iraq is not useful for the time being. The middle east conflict should be solved before considering any further action against Iraq.
I have not yet made up my mind concerning a western military intervention in Iraq but to wait until the middle east conflict will be resolved would certainly be a bit longer than useful. Sometimes I wonder whether politicians secretly hate Emil Berliner for inventing the microphone…