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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (9440)	12/10/2005 6:40:23 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 22250

Meanwhile, your friend, Ms Merkel, has put her foot deep into Condolezza Rice's excrement. So, maybe relations between Germany and the US won't be so sweet in future? news.ft.com >>The US secretary of state had admitted the kidnap of a German citizen by the American security services was a mistake, Ms Merkel said. As soon as the press conference was over US officials denied Ms Rice has said any such thing.<<

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (9440)	12/11/2005 4:27:13 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Gus > Just as seventy years ago anti-Nazi Germans were not "popular" in Germany. Since the popularity of American fascism is increasing throughout Europe, you had better be careful they don't grab you and give you some "rendition". wsws.org >>European ministers have signalled an end to any pretence of opposing America’s practice of rendition, which involves shipping detainees abroad to be tortured—using European airports and even CIA bases located in eastern Europe. Following a formal dinner in Brussels on December 7, in advance of the next day’s meeting of NATO foreign ministers, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium all proclaimed themselves satisfied with reassurances by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the US abides by the Geneva Convention in its treatment of prisoners. Throughout the continent, governments are mounting a sustained offensive against democratic rights—a shift towards authoritarian forms of rule that finds its most developed expression in the state of emergency that remains in effect in France. That is why they have no intention of challenging the lawlessness of the Bush administration and why Paris chooses this moment to proclaim Europe as “America’s friend.”<<