US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview released Saturday that she received "broad support" for President George W Bush's Iraq strategy during her recent talks in Berlin, DPA reported. "I found the German government to be fairly sympathetic to what we are trying to do," Rice told the news magazine Der Spiegel, following meetings with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier this week. The German leadership was "impressed and delighted" to see "a new commitment by the Americans in Iraq and that President Bush was not heeding those who say 'let the Iraqis sort out their own problems from now on'," Rice said in a German translation of her remarks released in advance of publication on Monday. President Bush last week announced his intention to send more than 20,000 US troops to Iraq to supplement the 140,000 already there.
