8/6/2002

The sleazy 'Spinnmeister' has done it again. (As if that were a surprise.)

On 6 August he goes on the air and proclaims, in an interview with Mr. Martin Wagner of German Public Radio, that 'Germany Won't Help the U.S. Remove Saddam Hussein'.

During the interview the following statements were made by the two:

O'Reilly:

....because the United States intelligence services believe, based upon defectors who we have in custody now right in Washington where you are, actually they're not in D.C., they're in Virginia, that Saddam Hussein is busily working on a nuclear what they call dirty bombs, on smallpox, and on anthrax, that he has these weapons in development, and that as soon as they're operational, he will give them to whoever will do his bidding.

Now, I mean, what else more do you want?  You know the guy's a killer, you were there, you saw it.  You know he's unstable.  The defectors say he's got this stuff.  And we're talking about scientists who worked on it, OK?  What more do you want?

Wagner:

I want what the government want, what the German government wants, because...
[O'Reilly interrupts}
WAGNER:  Which is to have proof.  And...
[O'Reilly interrupts}
WAGNER:  ... I'm quite sure, I'm quite sure, I'm quite sure...
[O'Reilly interrupts}
WAGNER:  (UNINTELLIGIBLE)...
[O'Reilly interrupts}
WAGNER:  If the CIA gives the information to the German intelligence...
[O'Reilly interrupts}
WAGNER:  ... and this ends up at the desk of Chancellor Schroeder, he will go to war with America.  I have no doubt about it.  You don't have to forget, we have an election year, and Schroeder is fighting in these elections -- he has a hard time to win these elections.  And so he's telling everybody carefully about war, and this sounds reasonable to the Germans.  That's why he's telling this.

My question to the Spinnmeister: Where does it say that Germany would not help. I see where Mr. Wagner stated that he wanted proof of the connection between Hussein and terrorism. Especially in light of O'Reilly's statement that "intelligence services believe". If they knew, I assume they would make the information available to the Germans, but just 'believing'....?

Please also notice the trademark interruptions by the Spinnmeister.