PENTAGON ADVISER SEEKS "REGIME CHANGE" IN GERMANY
Reuters, 10/1/02
BERLIN - A Pentagon adviser was quoted as saying on Tuesday that the best
thing German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder could do to ease strained
relations with Washington over Iraq would be to quit.
"It would be best if he (Schroeder) resigned. But he's obviously not going
to do that," Pentagon adviser Richard Perle said in an interview with
Wednesday's Handelsblatt daily, released ahead of publication.
U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said relations have been
poisoned by strident German criticism of U.S. policy towards Iraq during
the recent election campaign. Schroeder's anti-war rhetoric is credited
with helping him win re-election.
Perle, a leading voice in U.S. efforts to oust Saddam Hussein, told
Handelsblatt that Schroeder's stance on Iraq would set back Berlin's desire
to win a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council "for a
generation…"
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