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Opinion

Thursday April 22, 2003

Editor’s Weekly Blog

By William Grim

Welcome Back

Here’s hoping everyone had a Happy Easter and/or Passover.  Although Easter is a four-day weekend in Europe, your ZCPortal staff has been on the job every day, because we care about you, our readers.

Axis of Weasels Report

Germany Provided Intelligence for Iraqi Dictator

In an important article in The London Daily Telegraph, the German Intelligence Service is shown to have been supplying information to Saddam Hussein for over a year before the start of the War in Iraq.  In papers discovered by Telegraph correspondent David Harrison in the former headquarters of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, it becomes all too apparent why the duplicitous German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his 60s-radical Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer were trying to undermine the efforts of the United States to remove a brutal dictator from power.  It wasn’t just nostalgia for Saddam’s hero Adolf Hitler; the German government was expecting big contracts from Saddam in exchange for obstructing and backstabbing the United States.  The peacenik pinkos in Germany kept up their mantra ad infinitum of “no blood for oil” while at the same time they were only all too willing to allow American blood to be shed for German construction contracts. 

The despicable behavior of the German government shows that regime change is needed in Germany (as well as in France and Russia).  America liberated Germany from the Nazis and protected the country for 45 years from the Soviet Union and the Germans have repaid America’s generosity with a jackboot to the face.

Interestingly, Chancellor Schroeder, like a husband just caught cheating on his wife, has apologized for his anti-American rhetoric of the past year.  Too little, too late, Herr Chancellor.

As I said in last week’s blog, CDU/CSU leader Dr. Angela Merkel is an honest and responsible politician who should be Chancellor.  Let’s hope that the days of the Schroeder/Fischer cabal in Germany are numbered.

What’s New This Week on ZCPortal

I have a new review of a production of Igor Stravinsky’s opera “The Rake’s Progress” that has just been published.  Look for some reviews of recent movies, especially some that our American readers haven’t had a chance to see yet.

The ABCs of Kulchar is a particularly good batch of items this week.  Another installment of Grim’s New World Lexicon is forthcoming, and it wouldn’t be too surprising to see some particularly trenchant political commentary in the next week.

For fans of Richard Strauss’ operas, I will be presenting reviews of performances of three of his operas in the next month.  Additionally, I’ll be spending some time in London checking out the jazz and theater scenes there.

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