Don't get too excited

Schroedey...yeah, you may have created a plane that can carry a lot of people, but, this is far from putting you ahead of the USA.

"Good old Europe has made this possible," German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder told a packed hall in Airbus's headquarters in Toulouse, southwest France.

Nice try at a dig at Rumsfeld. Sure, old Europe did it. The kind of government subsidized, money-losing proposition that thankfully, the US chooses (at the moment) to not participate in.

You can have the biggest plane title, and we'll worry about saving the World.