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To: Elsewhere who wrote (42178)	9/5/2002 1:54:22 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

German Leader's Warning: War Plan Is a Huge Mistake nytimes.com Senior officials in Washington are angry at his presumption that the American debate over Iraq is finished and his failure to give his closest ally the benefit of the doubt. They believe he is damaging the alliance for electoral advantage and is running against America. But Mr. Schröder believes that his policy is prudent and coherent. He insists that the goal must be to pressure Saddam Hussein to allow weapons inspectors unconditional access — not to go to war regardless to overthrow Mr. Hussein, as Vice President Dick Cheney has suggested. Mr. Schröder threw up his hands. "How can you exert pressure on someone by saying to them, `Even if you accede to our demands, we will destroy you'?" he asked. "I think that was a change of strategy in the United States — whatever the explanation may be — a change that made things difficult for others, including ourselves." Referring to Mr. Cheney, Mr. Schröder said: "The problem is that he has or seems to have committed himself so strongly that it is hard to imagine how he can climb down. And that is the real problem, that not only I have, but that all of us in Europe have." Schröder noticed that? I noticed that, a time or two. Seems to be quite a common neocon theme too, push W as far out on that limb as possible, then tell him we'll look like wimps if he backs off. One might even think there was a little frenzy involved in that particular activity, if one didn't have all those official WH denials on that front. We don't need no stinkin' frenzy. Full text of interview at nytimes.com Excerpts at nytimes.com