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The German Election Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder took a principled stance against German participation in an unprovoked American war against Iraq. He deserves to have been re-elected as chancellor. Yet his razor thin margin of victory raises the specter that rightwing menace Edmund Stoiber could topple Schroeder from power if the government coalition is defeated on any key votes. PDS was the big loser, and for good reason. Voters made it crystal clear that they shall not support a PDS that tolerates abandonment of the peoples' social and cultural needs. If PDS Berlin speaks for voters, it has no choice but to quit the city's governing coalition now. The final days of Germany's election campaign showed that American power over the media, even the German media, is a huge peril to the country's sovereignty. No nation can exert its own voice if voters are poisoned by a foreign power that demands submissiveness to its aggressive, imperial whim. - 23 September 2002 |
