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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (12169)	2/4/2006 5:28:21 AM
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To: Scoobah who wrote (12169)	2/4/2006 10:11:22 AM
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Germany rises to a WORLD leadership position on IRAN!, Germany has been Israel's most consistent friend, IMO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted that Iran cannot be allowed to develop nuclear weapons and said Germany's Nazi past meant it could never tolerate Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments about Israel and the Holocaust. "A president that questions Israel's right to exist, a president that denies the Holocaust cannot think that Germany has even the slightest degree of tolerance. We have learned from our history," she told an international security conference. She said the Nazi experience showed the need to act swiftly to tackle such extremism, but stressed that Iran should be confronted with diplomatic, not military means. "Looking back the to German history in the early 1930s when National Socialism was on the rise there were many outside Germany who said it is only rhetoric - don't get excited," Merkel said. "There were times when people could have reacted differently, and in my point of view, Germany is obliged to do something at the early stages." Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sought to allay fears, insisting: "Iran has never been seeking nuclear weapons." He appeared to issue a veiled threat that Iran could respond through its influence in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan. "I hope that Europe doesn't chose this line of confrontation," he told the conference. "You know our role in Afghanistan and our role to stabilize Iraq, but threats against us are always ignored." He said Iranian law would oblige the government to cut dialogue if the country is referred to the Security Council. Merkel told him if that is the case, the law should be changed. Outlining the new German government's security objectives, she warned that budget restraints would continue to limit her country's defense spending despite calls from the United States for European allies to increase their military funding. But Merkel's speech underscored her efforts to improve Germany's relations with the United States - strained by her predecessor Gerhard Schroeder's staunch opposition to the Iraq war. She stressed that NATO should remain the "primary forum" for trans-Atlantic security, contradicting the position taken by Schroeder's government at the same meeting last year. "NATO is the bond of the trans-Atlantic community of interests and values," Merkel said, setting out the security objectives of her new government. "It has to be the forum in which political and military work are coordinated." She expressed support for efforts to reform the alliance giving it a greater global role and building links with other nations from North Africa to Australia and New Zealand. Last year, a speech Schroeder prepared for the Munich conference warned NATO "is no longer the primary venue where trans-Atlantic partners discuss and coordinate strategies.