FUHRERLIEDER (via Brian Boys):

Springtime for Schrsder and Germany (Stefan Kanfer, 24 September 2002. The International Relations Follies of 2002!)

Remember Sir Noel Coward's wonderful song, “Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans?

Here's a modern update:

“Don't Let's Be Beastly to Gerhard:

We must be dupes
And with our U.S. troops
We must leap right through the hoops
On hand.
We'll let the Germans know that when Iraq's defeated
They are not the ones we'll reprimand.
We must keep mum,
For Saddam needs a chum,
And Schrsder's rule of thumb
Is Gratitude
Is platitude.
My attitude
Is win regardless of the costs and quarrels;
Since when did politics have any morals? [...]

Don't let's be beastly to the chancellor
He is really rather something of a card.
For there's several million Muslims he has got to satisfy
And the Zionists in Deutschland are in very short supply.
Let's turn the other cheek again, and all play hide-and-seek again
While thanking him for his utter disregard.
He melded Socialist and Green, and wants Iraqi gasoline,
But let's not be beastly to Gerhard.

Sadly, this is a better analysis than you're likely to find in the newspapers. Posted by Orrin Judd at September 26, 2002 1:36 PM