Editing Joschka Fischer (section)

===Transatlantic relations===
[[File:Fischer und Paul Wolfowitz.jpg|thumb|Fischer and [[Paul Wolfowitz]] at [[the Pentagon]] on 19 September 2001]]
On fundamental issues like the [[International Criminal Court]], the [[Kyoto Protocol]], and the crisis in the Middle East, Fischer was openly differing with the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|Bush administration]].<ref>Steven Erlanger (21 July 2002), [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/21/weekinreview/the-world-america-the-invulnerable-the-world-looks-again.html The World; America the Invulnerable? The World Looks Again] ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref>

In 1999, both Fischer and Justice Minister [[Herta Däubler-Gmelin]] appealed for [[clemency]] for the [[LaGrand case|LaGrand brothers]], two German citizens sentenced to death in [[Arizona]]. According to the German government, the LaGrands had been denied their rights as German citizens because prosecutors did not inform the German consulate of the brothers' arrest in 1982 until a decade later. However, both were put to death, one in a cloud of [[cyanide]] gas.<ref>Roger Cohen (5 March 1999), [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/05/us/us-execution-of-german-stirs-anger.html U.S. Execution of German Stirs Anger] ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref> In response, the European Union submitted an anti-death-penalty resolution to the [[United Nations Commission on Human Rights]].<ref>Elizabeth Olson (28 March 1999), [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/05/us/us-execution-of-german-stirs-anger.html U.S. Execution of German Stirs Anger] ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref>

Although Fischer was in favour of stationing German troops in [[Afghanistan]], he advised chancellor Schröder not to join the war in [[Iraq]]. Fischer famously confronted [[United States Defense Secretary]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] at the 39th [[Munich Security Conference]] in 2003 on the secretary's purported evidence for Iraq's possession of [[weapons of mass destruction]] (''"Excuse me, I am not convinced"'').