[elhombrelibre]

I'm with you or with your attitude about this. Schroeder isn't sincere. He's a very flawed man. He's had about 5 wives, and he's a real phony. He sues news papers about things like telling people what color his hair really is. He's very frivolous, much like the German people today. And he's naturally the man who is leading them towards a divorce from the US. Our country pays 79% of the cost to base Americans here! Then we employ Germans at their wages and goofy goofing off-all-the-time work schedules. This is a very strange arrangement. This country is a post Christian one, but they get every Saints Day off you can think of. It's kind of like their sucking up to Putin while claiming they're concerned by US war crimes in Iraq. Hello? Have you heard of Grozny, Claus?

[HassanBenSobar]

Good points. He is barely hanging on politically anyway. But, having apologized, I think that Churchill's advice to be 'magnanimous in victory' would be well heeded. That doesn't mean we all forgive and forget, but I wouldn't think it all that bad for W to accept a phone call from Schroeder now. (Not that I'm going to consider a German car for a long while...)