BERLIN • When then German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in 2003 declined to pledge allegiance to the United States and refused to send troops to Iraq, ties between the two countries hit a new low.
Saying no to the demands of the US, then under the presidency of Mr George W. Bush, was a first for post-war Germany.
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