When this was posted yesterday, the link from TAPPED was apparently broken. Now it works again, I just tested it at 4:30am. Jubilation for my recipe box, my kitties, and glass of white wine! Just double-checked before sending an email to TAPPED. It still is funny that Babelfish translates "Perle" as "bead"....
Two contenders for the World's Funniest Joke, one here and the other here. This link, translated courtesy of TAP's babelfish link, has now been thoroughly purged of the text that prompted this TAPPED comment:
The translation is pretty rough, but it seems to confirm what B.M told us, which is that Pentagon apparatchik Richard Perle is getting a little too big for his britches. In the article, Perle apparently tells a reporter that newly-re-elected German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder should resign over his opposition to a U.S. invasion of Iraq. He also suggests, ominously, that German hopes for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council have been set back for at least "a generation."
Perle stressed that this was his own personal opinion. But that doesn't matter much when you express it so publicly. Let's put this in context: A senior defense advisor to George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld has now argued that the duly-elected foreign leader of an allied nation should resign simply because he opposes an administration plan to invade Iraq that itself has only tepid support in the U.S. We were worried before that the pro-war neocons were slowly being consumed by their own sense of manifest destiny. Now we're even more worried. [posted 12:40 pm]
On the bright side of life, the fullscreen Lexus Commercial popover no longer appears when you click on the link, so there is a lame upside to online political revisionism.. But what ate the original story? It WAS there, wasn't it, Chris? - or am I simply losing my mind, needing time in a re-education camp? Where's my recipe box? Where are my kitties, my Mehu-Liisa steam juicer? I need Sauvignon Blanc just to live!
Another update 10/07/02...I can't keep up! Here's what it says now!
HB DUESSELDORF. Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder should withdraw, in order to settle the German-American relationship durable, said the high-ranking US defense expert Richard bead the trade paper: "the best would be, if he would withdraw. But it will obviously not do that. Berlin chance on a constant seat in security council be "for a generation" throw, mean bead. The hard liner is a boss of the Defense Policy board, an informal consulting committee of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, stressed however, to represent its private opinion.
"I have never experienced that the relationship to a close allied one was damaged so fast and as heavily as by the election campaign of Schroeder", said bead, which was under Reagan undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Defense. Under the red-green Federal Government the damage no more is not to be repaired. Schroeder had excluded a participation in an Iraq war also under UN mandate.
Schroeder tried in the election campaign to improve its position "at any price" and with the release of Germany von Adolf Hitler likewise ignored the role of the USA like of Americas contribution in the reconstruction after the war and during the reunification. Bead said: "the chancellor threw all of this from the window."
He expressed himself confidently that the Security Council will adopt a sharp Iraq resolution. The largest danger proceeds at present from the biological weapons Iraq, said bead. The question, when Saddam Hussein can build an atom bomb, is to be answered not exactly. Saddam searches however on the world market for construction units for its nuclear weapon program, also in Germany. If it comes to a military action against the Iraqi regime, assume it that it will run "very goal-exactly, effectively and fast", thus bead.
8:42:00 PM 
|
|
