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In an odd, obviously mistaken yet very disturbing slip, John Kerry referenced "Treblinka Square".

Just for the record, here are some facts on the Treblinka death camp.

It was established northeast of Warsaw, Poland in 1942, after Operation Barbarrossa had given the Nazis a Ukranian Plain full of 9 million Jews. It was after this acquisition that the decision to exterminate the race was sealed. Treblinka consumed the first shipments of people from the infamous Warsaw Ghetto.

The camp, along with Chelmno, Sobibor and Belzec, also in east Poland, was shut down after a pyrrhic revolt in 1943 as the Nazis consolidated their extermination and concentration efforts at the three-headed Auschwitz complex (near Krakow). It is estimated that over a million innocent people were gassed and burned in Treblinka's single year of operation.

Just so we don't tag it as a politician's gaffe and forget it from there.

1 posted on 10/01/2004 12:11:08 AM PDT by MIT-Elephant
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To: MIT-Elephant

WEll, we KNOW that twit Kerry is ignorant.....


2 posted on 10/01/2004 12:29:14 AM PDT by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno-World!")
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To: MIT-Elephant

He doesn't need a reminder of how he lost Wisconsin. This from a guy who called Lambeau Field, Lambert Field! (laughing)


3 posted on 10/01/2004 12:31:25 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: MIT-Elephant

Well he already lost the polish vote when he ignored them as part of the coalition of the willing. So why not remind them of a Polish death camp for good measure.

Kerry's flubs last night were vast and wide. He faked his way through this debate by lying.

The NYC Subway was never shut down during the RNC.

If Iraq had no WMD, what nuclear secrets did we need to safeguard by guarding "only the oil ministry?"

Kerry did say that Bush was a liar.

His lies will catch up to him. This is not a little Senatorial debate. There are 1,000s of pundits who will debunk these Kerry lies and misstatements.


6 posted on 10/01/2004 12:41:29 AM PDT by GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
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To: MIT-Elephant

if only Bush had spoken up and corrected Kerry.


8 posted on 10/01/2004 12:49:35 AM PDT by isom35
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To: MIT-Elephant
My son is 24 and really becoming aware of politics in a meaningful and passionate way. So he calls me last night and says that George Bush is really smart, as if he was a little surprised (he is a strong conservative, but still). So I said - don't you know that according to the media, all republicans are stupid (Ford - idiot. Reagan - asleep at the switch. Bush 41 - out of touch. Quayle - idiot. Dole - senile. Bush 43 - idiot) while we are fortunate to breathe the same air as the dems.
13 posted on 10/01/2004 2:41:56 AM PDT by americafirst
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To: Mrs Zip

ping


14 posted on 10/01/2004 2:42:01 AM PDT by zip ((Remember: pingDimocRat lies told often enough became truth to 42% of Americans))
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To: MIT-Elephant; AmericanInTokyo

AmericanInTokyo caught that on the Live Thread


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1231992/posts?page=2660#2660

To: george wythe
Who can sift through well over 2,500 posts! So someone may have already said it, but Kerry did make one flub that I did not see anyone on the internet catching yet:
KERRY WENT TO THE OLD KGB BUILDING IN MOSCOW (with Senator Bob Smith). That area is called "Lubyanka Square" NOT "TREBLINKA SQUARE."

Lurch just placed a notorious Nazi concentration camp in Poland right into Soviet Russia!!


2,660 posted on 09/30/2004 11:07:07 PM EDT by AmericanInTokyo ( MSM is the nanny watchdog of everyone/everything; yet they explode w/rage when THEY are audited.)


16 posted on 10/01/2004 2:48:16 AM PDT by Mo1 (Why is the MSM calling the Vietnam Vets and POW's a suspected group??)
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To: MIT-Elephant

Treblinka-Lubyanka
Michigan Buckeyes-Wolverines
Lambert Field-Lambeau Field

They all sound alike....


18 posted on 10/01/2004 2:55:54 AM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) (Dan Rather plans to spend the winter in Valley Forgery.-hflynn)
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To: MIT-Elephant

Had W confused the Nazi deathcamp with KGB HQ, the gaffe would be the only thing on the press for the next 48 hours.


19 posted on 10/01/2004 4:58:18 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Don't blame me. I voted for Sharpton.)
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To: MIT-Elephant

Kerry did visit Treblinka...it was on the same secret mission that brought him to Cambodia. Forget about the fact that Kerry wasn't even born during the atrocities at Treblinka, if Kerry says he was there, no one can dispute it...it would be questioning his patriotism.


25 posted on 10/01/2004 8:44:48 AM PDT by ArmedNReady (Islam, the cancer on humanity that needs radiation treatment.)
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