Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, center, facing a parliamentary committee in Berlin on Thursday over allegations that Germany had assisted the U.S. invasion of Iraq. (Hannibal Hanschke /Reuters)From The International Herald Tribune:
BERLIN: The credibility of Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Social Democrat who will challenge Chancellor Angela Merkel in national elections in the autumn, came under sharp attack Thursday over continuing allegations that - under his tutelage - Germany in fact aided the United States both in its "war on terror" and in the Iraq invasion that Berlin opposed.
In a foretaste of the national election campaign next year, conservatives aligned with Merkel and opposition deputies both sharply attacked Steinmeier's credibility when he appeared - for the fifth time in two years - before a parliamentary committee investigating allegations that German intelligence services were aware of CIA kidnappings, and of prisoner renditions to third countries where torture was permitted, and were involved in preparing the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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My Comment: They condemn those who assisted the allied forces in overthrowing the tyrant Hussein .... I think those who helped the allied forces be treated as heroes.
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