- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President
Bush's spokesman on Thursday expressed outrage that Germany's justice minister
drew a link between Bush's saber-rattling on Iraq to the tactics used by
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
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- Spokesman Ari Fleischer said the United States and Germany
have long had a strong relationship, "but this statement by the justice
minister is outrageous and is inexplicable."
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- The regional Schwaebisches Tagblatt newspaper quoted
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's justice minister, Herta Daeubler-Gmelin,
as saying "Bush wants to divert attention from his domestic problems.
It's a classic tactic. It's one that Hitler used."
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- The Bush administration has been none too pleased that
criticizing the United States over Iraq has been a key campaign plank for
Schroeder in his re-election battle but has refrained from publicly commenting
on the issue.
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