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"This is where he sat and lied to me," a furious George W. Bush recently told a visiting European head of state. "He" is German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, with whom Bush believed he had a deal-- private acquiescence on Iraq in return for Bush's not pressing for public support in the run-up to last September's German elections. Everyone knows what happened instead. The plain-speaking Texan says he harbors no grudges against Germans or Germany. But his aversion to the German leader is deep, personal and abiding. "Schroder is no longer welcome here," the president apparently told Jurgen Schrempp, DaimlerChrysler's chairman, at a recent White House event, according to NEWSWEEK sources.
Attempting to improve relations, Schroder met with Secretary of State Colin Powell last Friday and agreed to ...