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To: longnshort who wrote (264851)	12/16/2005 2:40:34 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573433

Ahhhhh.......you do know right from wrong. How interesting that the odor from Schroeder's latest doings bothers you but the comparable smell emanating from the GOP side of Congress doesn't warrant even a mention by you. ******************************************************* Gaseous odour clings to Schroeder Dec. 16, 2005. 01:00 AM It's the sort of behaviour we have — sadly — come to expect from some in Congress.** But when Gerhard Schroeder, the former German chancellor, announced last week that he was going to work for Gazprom, the Russian energy behemoth, he catapulted himself into a different league. It's one thing for a legislator to resign his job, leave his committee chairmanship and go to work for a company over whose industry he once had jurisdiction. It's quite another thing when the chancellor of Germany leaves his job and goes to work for a company controlled by the Russian government that is helping to build a Baltic Sea gas pipeline that he championed while in office. To make the decision even more unpalatable, it turns out that the chief executive of the pipeline consortium is a former East German secret police officer who was friendly with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, back when Putin was a KGB agent in East Germany. If nothing else, Schroeder deserves opprobrium for his bad taste. continued................. thestar.com