BERLIN, Sept 8: A conservative German minister in a southern state has caused uproar by saying US President George W. Bush should be ‘shot down’ for his handling of the crisis in hurricane-struck New Orleans.
Andreas Renner, Social Minister in Germany’s southern state of Baden-Wuertemberg, clarified later that he had only meant Bush should be downed politically.
During a visit to a local company on Tuesday, Renner said of Bush: “He ought to be shot down.”—Reuters
