Departing German chancellor Schroeder takes swipe at Bush

[bigbrother05]

Short read
interesting statements by Schroeder

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/12/051012132549.ato4tz7s.html

[Cha]

1. Priceless! What's going

to happen to Germany now that merkle is in? Is she going to send Germans to Iraq?

[LincolnMcGrath]

3. She wants to break the unions, for one thing.

[Cha]

7. I hear the election was

close so maybe she won't get a chance to do that. I hope her experiment doesn't work in Germany. I don't know that much about German politics but I hope she doesn't stay around long.

[truebrit71]

11. Her "mandate" is so strong that she wound up with a coalition...

..government....She will not be able to push through any of her Thatcherite agenda...

[Cha]

16. I saw a cartoon with

her and thatcher and some birthday cake the other day on the net ..so I figured she was some sort of thatcher wannabe.

Too bad we can't have a "coalition" government here instead of the chimp's "man date".

[tabasco]

5. She won't send German troops to Iraq.

That's one thing the German people are united on - hatred for Bush and a desire to stay out of the Iraq quagmire.

[Cha]

6. Good, I hope that chaps

her conservative butt.

[BlacknBlue in Red NC]

2. Bet those comments won't make it

into the revisionist "history" being crafted by Bob Woodword for W. Thanks for the article.

[Cha]

8. Welcome to

DU, BlacknBlue in Red NC! :toast:

[jedicord]

4. I'm keeping this one, to use over and over again.

"People do not want the state in their faces, but they want it by their side," he said.

[Cha]

9. It's a good one, eh?

We pay taxes To have it "by our side"! They friggin work for us.. Damnit!

[HereSince1628]

10. Great sound bite for democrats to work on.

"People do not want the state in their faces, but they want it by their side,"

[billbuckhead]

12. I love Schroeder

If he would have only created millions of WalMart jobs and counted making hamburgers as assembly jobs...............................

[Itchinjim]

13. Right Wingers, Germans.

Not a good mix.

[xchrom]

14. while i think schroeder brought his pain on himself

i'm not wishing merkel well.

these remarks are very good -- schroeder has a caustic wit.

[win_in_06]

15. With all of the disdain in Europe for Bush and America

why would Germany elect a leader who is more Bush-like???