Please note that many German citizens DID NOT APPROVE of the War in Iraq by the U.S...Neither did its Chancellor Schroeder....very reminiscent of the response by the citzens of England...though their Preseident DID(Bushs lackey)

German Protesters Call Bush 'No. 1 Terrorist'
By Alexandra Hudson

Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:54 PM ET

MAINZ, Germany (Reuters) - About 12,000 protesters, many carrying
banners reading "Bush go home," "No. 1 Terrorist" and "Warmonger,"
marched through the German city of Mainz on Wednesday, but were
mostly kept away from the visiting U.S. president.

The official rally, which was twice as big as expected, never got
within earshot of President Bush, but a small group of protestors
rushed toward his car as he left to visit a U.S. base in nearby
Wiesbaden. Police wrestled several demonstrators to the ground and
led them away in handcuffs, a Reuters witness said.

Bush was visiting Germany for the first time since the 2003 Iraq war,
which Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and most Germans opposed.

"I'm disgusted by the war in Iraq Bush started that has cost
thousands of civilian lives," said Thomas Odenweller, 49, a computer
technician. "Now he's trying to normalize relations with Europe. It
must be stopped."

Ignoring snow and freezing temperatures, the demonstrators held
banners chastising Bush in English with slogans such as: "You can
bomb the world to pieces but not into peace." Many had pre-printed
posters reading: "Bush, No. 1 Terrorist."

Before the march, which Mainz police said was one of the largest ever
in the city of about 300,000, one speaker told the crowd: "Mr. Bush,
please leave our country. You started an illegal war against Iraq."

German police confiscated one poster that read: "We had our Hitler,
now you have yours."

Some protesters praised Schroeder for his anti-war stance.

"Schroeder's opposition to the Iraq war made me so proud to be
German," said Helmut Bach, 50, a pilot who marched with his
20-year-old daughter. "That's why I voted for him."

Several protesters wearing fake U.S. army uniforms pulled a trailer
with dummies of blood-covered Iraq prisoners impaled on iron bars
under a banner: "We don't want your type of freedom."

A force of 10,000 police officers staged one of the biggest postwar
security operations. Frogmen searched the Rhine for explosives, 1,300
manhole covers were welded shut and thousands of residents were
displaced. Continued ...