Germany’s Gerhard Schroder: Shameless
CSM reports: “The last time he faced the prospect of electoral defeat, Chancellor Gerhard Schroder turned
President Bush’s foreign policy into a campaign rally cry, plunging German and American relations to their lowest point since the end of World War II.”
“As Mr. Schroder visits Washington Monday, he is once again politically embattled, with his weakened Social Democrats (SPD) facing an emboldened Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in early elections this September. And he will no doubt use Mr. Bush to improve his voter support. But this time, analysts say, Schroder won’t be driving the anti-Bush bandwagon he rode to victory in 2002.”
“Instead, the two-term leader is hoping his appearance with Bush will remind German voters of the greater international profile he has given his country. And he’s expected to press Germany’s case for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council - a bid the US has opposed.”
All’s fair in love and politics. But Bush should firmly remember the “Axis of Weasels,” and learn from the past.
What comes around goes around…
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