It's always our fault

From the New York Times this bit of dishonesty:

The Bush administration, in a move that is straining relations with the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, has once again rebuffed Germany's bid to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, American and European officials said Wednesday.

You mean, before this, relations were good with Germany?!!! This is another example of how the New York Times knowingly distorts the truth, playing political games. To back up their ridiculous assertions they rely on -- get this -- "several other [unnamed, of course] European and Asian diplomats involved in the intensifying jockeying over Security Council membership said they got the impression from top administration officials that the Bush administration opposes German membership..."

Those "unnamed" diplomats. As for the U.S. opposing German membership, maybe. Maybe not. But why would the U.S. agree to it now? At the exact same time that Gerhard Schröder and Greens Party member and Socialist Joschka Fischer are lame ducks, why would the U.S. prop up either of them by making concessions? Neither is in any position or has any intention of pushing for any genuine "reform" of the United Nations, certainly not the kind that the Bush administration is advocating. That is exactly the reason the New York Times wants them added.

And then there is this wierdness.

Several diplomats said they were puzzled that the United States had not developed an alternate proposal to the one by Japan, Germany, India and Brazil.

Instead, the United States has focused on improving management of the office of the secretary general, setting up new mechanisms for reconstruction of countries torn by conflict, a new treaty to combat terrorism, a voluntary fund to promote democracy and reforming the Human Rights Commission to prevent countries like Sudan from sitting on it and preventing action.

Sounds like more admirable goals than making the Security Council even less responsive with the addition of a Leftwing German government that repeatedly demonstrates rabidly anti-American sentiment when it suits them. "Reform" to the New York Times is conceding to the Left. What else is new? And the whole article is a cover for the German Left because they failed to get president Bush to agree and this way the Socialist German government can claim "It's their fault! They never intended to help us gain a permanent seat on the Security Council." I am happy that president Bush didn't help them. Cause it thwarts the New York Times, a newspaper nearly as rabidly anti-American as the Taliban.