A Pox On Schroder
Creepy German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder made opposition to American efforts to disarm Saddam the centerpiece of his reelection campaign last year. Schroder repeatedly scoffed at US claims that Saddam was amassing weapons of mass destruction. He was so fixated on vilifying America that a cabinet minister went as far as to equate President Bush with Hitler. (The cabinet minister apparently forgot that it was her country which gave the world Adolf Hitler and his merry band of genocidal maniacs.)
Now comes word, via eagle-eyed
Andrew Sullivan, that the German newspaper
Frankfurter Allgemeine has broken a doozie of a story. During his reelection campaign last year, Schroder was briefed by German intelligence that Saddam was stocking up on smallpox bioweapons. Since this inconvenient fact clashed with Schroder's campaign theme, he trashed the intelligence report.
Whoever coined the "Axis of Weasels" moniker nailed it. Herr Schroder makes Bill Clinton look honorable.
