Hopes and Strains Endure in U.S.-Europe Partnership

When trans-Atlantic tensions are high, the Munich Security Conference is a stage where they spill into the open.

At the annual event in 2003, arguments over the Iraq war came to a head when an emotional German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer confronted U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to insist he wasn’t convinced by the American case for removing Saddam Hussein.

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