German Justice Minister compares Bush to Hitler.

[L@mplighterM]

Snip:
- Sammenlignet Bush med Hitler
Tysklands justisminister Herta Däubler-Gmelin skal i en diskusjon ha sammenlignet USAs president George W. Bush med Hitler, skriver en tysk avis.
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/ur...ticleID=402767

Translated from Norwegian:

A German newspaper is reporting that Germanys Justice minister Herta Däubler-Gmelin in talks compared George W. Bush with Hitler.

End.

Must be something in the sauerkraut or the German beer or perhaps the Justice Minister is just plain nuts.

[elke]

And they say Americans are undereducated? Good grief!

[martinw718]

Originally posted by elke
And they say Americans are undereducated? Good grief!

Well, I mean...if Israeli checkpoints are comparable with the Holocaust, George #43 could be like Hitler.

Follow the bouncing logic....................

[Miriam]

Herta Daeubler-Gmelin denies having said it, and I tend to believe her. Apparently she has been misquoted by a provincial newspaper. She is not exactly a fan of the US, but she is also an experienced politician and very careful about her rhetorics.

[martinw718]

Originally posted by Miriam
Herta Daeubler-Gmelin denies having said it, and I tend to believe her. Apparently she has been misquoted by a provincial newspaper. She is not exactly a fan of the US, but she is also an experienced politician and very careful about her rhetorics.

Maybe she was overheard in pub.

[Miriam]

Originally posted by martinw718
Maybe she was overheard in pub.

The newspaper claimed that she said it during a meeting with a trade union. The basic moral: chill off before you react to stuff like this. This particular person has survived some 40 years in politics without having ever made even a remotely scandalous pronouncement. Germany has 3 days left until government elections, the campaign frenzy with all its dirt-throwing is reaching the boiling point. Here is a simple proposal: don't read or listen to any news from Germany before Sunday evening

[martinw718]

Originally posted by Miriam
The newspaper claimed that she said it during a meeting with a trade union. The basic moral: chill off before you react to stuff like this. This particular person has survived some 40 years in politics without having ever made even a remotely scandalous pronouncement. Germany has 3 days left until government elections, the campaign frenzy with all its dirt-throwing is reaching the boiling point. Here is a simple proposal: don't read or listen to any news from Germany before Sunday evening

Miriam I'm pushing 50. I grew up with Richard Nixon's administration. You don't have to tell me not to believe what I hear.

[Miriam]

Originally posted by martinw718
Miriam I'm pushing 50. I grew up with Richard Nixon's administration. You don't have to tell me not to believe what I hear.

Good to know

[elke]

Hey, does that mean you didn't believe "I am not a crook?"

[L@mplighterM]

I'm not a liar!

[martinw718]

Originally posted by elke
Hey, does that mean you didn't believe "I am not a crook?"

In those days I was probably high and looking at the whole thing like it was a cartoon show. Spongebob Squarepants has nothing on Richard Nixon.

[L@mplighterM]

snip:

The regional newspaper the Schwaebisches Tagblatt reported Thursday that Daeubler-Gmelin told a small group of union members: "Bush wants to distract attention from his domestic problems. That's a popular method. Even Hitler did that."

The newspaper said it had cleared the quote with Daeubler-Gmelin, which is common practice in German journalism. She, however, denied that.

Daeubler-Gmelin admitted that during the course of a chaotic discussion that touched on Iraq she had referred to diversionary tactics - saying "we know that from our history, since Adolf Nazi." But she denied ever using Hitler's surname.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...=1032275815483


By her own admission she did compare Bush to Hitler and I think that she should resign. It’s a slap in the face to Bush and to civilization as a whole. In the conflict between Hussein versus Bush there’s no question in my mind who’s the Hitler.

Adolph Nazi makes it quite clear that she was talking about Hitler.

[L@mplighterM]

Snip:

Sep. 22, 2002
German justice minister to resign after comparing Bush to Hitler
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BERLIN - Germany's justice minister has decided to step down after coming under fire from the opposition and Washington for allegedly making an indirect but damaging comparison between US President George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler, a mass-circulation daily reported Sunday.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...=1032275829497