Schroeder Warns US Against Strike on Iraq

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Schroeder Warns US Against Strike on Iraq

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Saturday warned the United States against a much-talked military strike on Iraq.

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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Saturday warned the United States against a much-talked military strike on Iraq.

He warned of "talking about or merely thinking about the war against Iraq without thinking of the consequences and without a political conception for the whole the Near East."

Germany is ready for the solidarity in NATO, but "not for adventure," he told an election campaign gathering of his Social Democratic Party in Hannover where his home is based.

Just after the September 11 terrorist attacks in US last year, Germany made clear its "unlimited solidarity" with the US in the war against terrorism while it excluded "adventure."

There will be no "pure financial participation" from the Germanside in such a military action against Iraq, the German leader stressed.

"There will be no such form of work distribution any more, in which Germans didn't participate but paid," he noted.

"At any case, it will not happen with me," he said amid applause before some 1,000 followers of the SPD.

"Germany is no longer a country in which check diplomacy replaces the politics," the chancellor said.

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