The Blogosphere Hawks, busy building their Schroeder bonfires and lamenting his victory, failed to pick up on this comment by his opponent before the election:



Aware that Schroeder's anti-war rhetoric is proving a vote winner, Stoiber toughened his own stance on Thursday.

In a television interview, he said that, if elected, he might bar U.S. forces from using their German bases if Bush decided on an attack without U.N. backing, Reuters news agency reported.