-Caveat Lector- >>>The more Duh-B(uckaroo)-Yuh pisses people off with his flashbacks to substance induced omnipotence, the more likely he (and the U.S.) will be shunned by various factions (not just independent nations or elements within) around the world. Thus, by the shunning, the ability of the U.S. to peacefully interact with foreign sources of materials and intellectual properties will be reduced. Thus, as time progresses, the Black Bloc and the anti-Globalists and the Soviets and the Islamicists and the whoevers will have achieved their goals. His mama may be proud to have had two men in her life who became president but there are about two hundred ninety-nine thousand OTHER Americans he needs to think about as well, many of whom have not advanced to the age when shuffleboard is a competitive sport. A<>E<>R<<<
From http://www.iht.com/cgi- bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=47850 }}}Begin Copyright © 2001 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com Germany joins criticism of Bush Steven Erlanger The New York Times Wednesday, February 13, 2002 Fischer warns U.S. not to act alone against nations like Iraq BERLIN The German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, warned the Bush administration Tuesday not to treat its allies like satellite states in some new empire or move unilaterally against states like Iraq. Fischer thereby a dded a prominent German voice to a new wave of anxious continental criticism of Washington's post-Afghanistan foreign policy. Fischer, a Green with a strong pro-American reputation, joined his French counterpart, Hubert Vedrine, in slamming the "simplistic" language of President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address, in which he descr ibed an "axis of evil" made up of Iran, Iraq and North Korea. "The international coalition agains terror is not the foundation to carry out just anything against anybody, and particularly not on one's own," Fischer said, referring to Iraq. "All the European foreign ministers see it that way," he said in a long interview with the conservative German daily Die Welt. "Because of that, the expression 'axis of evil' does not take us further," Fischer said. "Thro wing Iran, North Korea and Iraq into one pot. Where should that lead us?" The Europeans are concerned about the Bush administration's policy toward the Middle East, which they regard as too heavily tilted toward the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, and too dismissive of the embattled Pales tinian leader, Yasser Arafat. But the Europeans are most worried about how the Bush administration will choose to prosecute the war on terrorism after Afghanistan. They are trying to influence the intense debate going on in Washington about how to deal with or bring down President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, with the Pentagon perceived as pressing for military action and the State Depar tment urging further international pressure through the United Nations to get Iraq to agree to new inspections of its suspected biological, chemical and nuclear weapons facilities. "A world with 6 billion people will not be led into a peaceful future by the mightiest power alone," Fischer said. "I do not support anti-Americanism at all, but even with all the differences in size and weight, alliances between free democracies should not be reduced to following. Alliance partners are not satellites," he said, using the term normally reserved, during the Cold War, for the east European countries under Soviet military domination. As for Iraq, Fischer said, Saddam is playing "a brutal, cynical game" with his population. "It is all the same to him whether his people suffer or whether a whole generation goes to the dogs," he said. "But it would be wrong to limit the options to the military realm. "The UN inspectors must be allowed to return to the country," he said, adding: "The sanctions regime must be further developed so that Iraq cannot produce or bring on line weapons of mass destruction." By inference, Fischer does not favor efforts to produce "regime change" in Iraq, the way the Bush administration does. Nor do the Europeans accept that Washington has the right to attack Iraq, as it did Afghanistan, unles s there is a clear tie between Baghdad and the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. When the deputy defense secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, suggested earlier this month in Munich that Iraq presented such a clear danger to Am erican interests that the United States might act preemptively, Russian and European officials warned Washington to obey international law and respect the need for a United Nations mandate. "Our approach has been to aim a t prevention and not merely punishment," Wolfowitz said. "We are at war. Self-defense requires prevention and sometimes preemption." On Monday, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, again warned Washington not to attack Iraq. Vedrine was the first and bluntest critic, saying last week that Bush's approach to terrorism is "simplistic" and "reduces all the problems in the world to the struggle against terror." He said Europeans must speak out more loudly now because they face a United States that acted "unilaterally, without consulting others, making decisions based on its own view of the world and its own interests." Secretary of State Colin Powell was quick to reject Vedrine's words, saying: "We believe in multilateralism," but "when the multilateral community does not agree with us," Washington would not "shrink from doing that whic h is right, which is in our interest, even if some of our friends disagree with us." The French prime minister, Lionel Jospin, made comments similar to those of Fischer, as did the European Union's external affairs commissioner, Christopher Patten, who said that European leaders should speak up before Was hington went into "unilateralist overdrive." In an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper, Patten said the "axis of evil" phrase is "unhelpful," adding: "I find it hard to believe that's a thought-through policy." No plan for war, Powell says Powell told Congress Tuesday there is no plan on Bush's desk - at the moment - to start a war with the "axis of evil," the Associated Press reported from Washington. 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