 In response, the European Union submitted an anti-death-penalty resolution to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.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"").