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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve harris who wrote (5043)	9/17/2005 2:34:39 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

SCHROEDER'S SPD USES DEAD U.S. SOLDIERS ON ELECTION POSTER dpa ^ \| 16 Sep, 2005 \| dpa Berlin (dpa) - Battling for reelection in a tight race, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's party is putting up campaign posters showing flag-draped coffins of dead American soldiers to underline their opposition to the Iraq war, reports said Friday. Rolf Schwanitz, a state secretary in the Berlin chancellery, is using a poster with five coffins covered by the American stars and stripes being loaded into a transport aircraft flanked by a U.S. military honour guard. The caption of the poster is aimed at conservative challenger Angela Merkel, who backed the Iraq war while always vowing not to send German troops. ``She would have sent soldiers,'' is emblazoned across the poster for Schroeder's Social Democratic Party (SPD). The Chancellor, who narrowly won reelection in 2002 after making his ``no'' to the Iraq war a key campaign issue, never misses a chance to attack Merkel over Iraq in election rally speeches. ``As long as we are in office German foreign policy will be made in Berlin and not anywhere else,'' said Schroeder to cheers at a rally in Potsdam this week, adding that Merkel lacked the strength to stand up to ``the kind of pressure'' he had to face over Iraq. Schroeder's use of the Iraq war in 2002 for domestic purposes led to the worst post-war crisis in German-American ties. The conservative Bild tabloid dubbed the posters ``perverse election campaigning.'' Merkel's Christian Democratic alliance (CDU/CSU) reacted with outrage to the poster. ``It's totally tasteless! There are limits even in an election campaign - you don't use the dead to win votes,'' said CDU Secretary General Volker Kauder. German elections will be held this Sunday. Polls show a very tight race with Merkel's centre-right alliance short of a majority in parliament. There is speculation that Merkel may try to form a grand coalition with Schroeder's SPD as junior partner. But some analysts predict Schroeder will try to cling to power by adding the opposition Free Democrats (FDP) to his SPD-Greens government which all polls show failing to win a majority. dpa lm pmc expatica.com

To: steve harris who wrote (5043)	9/17/2005 10:15:14 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9838

Money that Congress set aside for New Orleans evacuation plan went instead to studying bridge AP ^ \| 9/17/05 \| RITA BEAMISH RITA BEAMISH Associated Press Writer As far back as eight years ago, Congress ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to develop a plan for evacuating New Orleans during a massive hurricane, but the money instead went to studying the causeway bridge that spans the city's Lake Ponchartrain, officials say. The outcome provides one more example of the government's failure to prepare for a massive but foreseeable catastrophe, said the lawmaker who helped secure the money for FEMA to develop the evacuation plan. "They never used it for the intended purpose," said former Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La. "The whole intent was to give them resources so they could plan an evacuation of New Orleans that anticipated that a very large number of people would never leave." ap.onlineathens.com