Former Chancellor Schroedar says "Bush lying"....Huf Post..

[Stuart G]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-heilbrunn/chancellor-gerhard-schroe_b_781297.html

Jacob Heilbrunn
Posted: November 9, 2010 07:16 PM

Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder says that George W. Bush is fibbing about him in his new memoir. Bush was furious at Schroeder for winning reelection in 2002 by campaigning vigorously against the Iraq War. The looming war was wildly unpopular in Germany and Schroeder caught an election wave by pledging that Germany would not participate.

Now Bush claims in his memoir that Schroeder deceived him by promising support for the war when they met at the White House on January 31, 2002. Schroeder's response: "Bush is not telling the truth." Schroeder says that he only promised to support the Iraq War should it become clear that Saddam Hussein was supporting al-Qaeda, He never got the proof he wanted because it didn't exist.

So Bush says Schroeder lied to him. Schroeder says Bush is lying. Whom do you believe?

[LiberalFighter]

1. Bush probably wasn't listening to Schroeder while he was trying to sniff

if Merkel's perfume was on Schroeder.

[Jim Lane]

2. K&R - a refreshingly blunt statement from Schroeder

The HuffPo piece should've linked to the Spiegel Online page that provides the information about Schroeder's comments: .

Thanks for posting this! I've added the information to about Decision Points. We can hope that other people who have first-hand knowledge will emulate Schroeder and refute Shrub's lies.