Pravda.ru
Moscow, October 5,
2002
America Knows Best Who
Should Rule Germany
"It
would be better for the chancellor to resign"
By Sergey Borisov
PRAVDA.Ru
THE White House is very
much dissatisfied with Germany, and the Pentagon even more so. And
all this dissatisfaction is because of the German chancellor's rigid
opinion concerning the US-led campaign against Iraq.
[Gerhard]
Schroeder has indicated several times already that Germany will not
participate in this war, even if the UN approves it.
The statement made by German
Minister of Justice Herta Däubler-Gmelin when she
compared George W. Bush with [Adolf] Hitler
only added fuel to the fire.
During the past several days, German
diplomats have made every possible effort to reduce the tension in
relations with America, which arose after the above mentioned
statements.
The scandal seemed
practically hushed up when Pentagon senior adviser Richard
Perle [who
is Jewish]
arrived in Berlin. He was the aide to the US defense secretary
under Ronald Reagan. As soon as he arrived in Berlin, he
immediately announced that Gerhard Schroeder should resign.
Perle doesn't care at all that
Germans elected the chancellor in accordance with their domestic
interests. However, the American official strongly believes that if
the chancellor doesn't support US policy concerning Iraq, he should
resign. Germany's Handelsblatt quotes Perle: "It would be
better for the chancellor to resign."
Perle says that Schroeder's anti-war
election campaign strongly undermined the relations between Germany
and America, and in a burst of revelation, he explained to the German
people how much the chancellor's pertinacity will cost the country.
Does Germany, he asked, still entertain any desire to become a
permanent member of the UN Security Council? It should forget about
it for a long time, Perle says. According to him, it is because of
the chancellor that the problem can be considered once again only by
the next generation of Germans.
Germany has been deprived of any
authority to influence the Iraqi problem because of Schroeder's
"astonishing isolationism," Perle says. He adds that nobody made
Schroeder do anything concerning Iraq, the USA especially.
However, the chancellor, says Perle,
"preferred to stay with his old friend for the sake of several votes
at the elections."
Many observers say that relations
between Berlin and Washington are at the lowest level ever registered
since the end of WWII. They also admit that Perle's statements proved
to be the most harsh within the whole period of preparation for the
war in Iraq.
At first, US officials dared to speak
only about Hussein's resignation only. But, as we all know,
appetite grows while eating.
Sergey Borisov
PRAVDA.Ru
Translated by Maria
Gousseva
