Fischer - the US have surrendered reality and entered fantasyland over Iraq.

Der Spiegel have issued an essay has been taken from the foreward to 5 times married , marathon running gourmet, former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer's new book, "Die Rückkehr der Geschichte," (The Return of History), published by Knaur Taschen Verlag. Founder of the Green Party in 1977 he has been a popular poitician in Germany for many years.

" ..... when one looks back on the years since the US invaded Baghdad, one finds that all gloomy predictions have been surpassed by reality. Foreign policy pessimists usually turn out to be bad-tempered realists. When pessimists are overtaken by reality itself, as has happened in Iraq, that would seem to be cause for true concern. The only stage of pessimism left would then seem to be the escape into optimism, an escape that would entail the surrender of every form of realism. Recent official statements by the US administration suggest that this next stage has already been reached."

Well worth the read ...also have a look at General Ion Mihai Pacepa 2003 biographical note about Fischer's terrorist connections in the