Bush to Visit Auschwitz Death Camp

AP via Guardian ^ | May 30, 2003 | TONY CZUCZKA

[Billthedrill]

Oh, nice touch. Very nice touch indeed. Then off to Paris. Heh heh...

[Free_at_last_-2001]

...dangers of evil unchecked - when he gets back he should visit the DNC HQ.

[veronica]

Maybe President Bush can tell Holocaust denier (and "Palestinian" PM) Abu Mazen about his visit.

[dighton]

Auschwitz - Birkenau Memorial and Museum

[fightinJAG]

My thoughts exactly.

[don-o]

Oh, nice touch. Very nice touch indeed. Then off to Paris. Heh heh...

And your point is....?

[don-o]

Then off to Paris. Heh heh...

I thought that St Petersburg was the next stop.

[Billthedrill]

My point is that Paris aided and abetted the Nazis just as it aided and abetted Saddam, and I think this will point that up.

Right?

[fightinJAG]

thank you.

[don-o]

Is the Prez on his way to Paris on this trip?

Inform me. I may be behind on breaking news.

[Billthedrill]

OK, I'll make it reeeeal small words for you - G8 conference. Try to keep up.

[don-o]

Do not patronize me. I actually work for a living, and as I said, may be lacking in details.

But, are you saying that our President should refuse to attend the G8 conf, because it is hosted in France?

[Billthedrill]

We seem to be at cross-purposes here, so I'll assume you're not being sarcastic.

I think that the visit to Auschwitz is intended to remind the French and the Germans that evil unchecked can result in extermination camps, and that their behavior in Iraq served to promote that sort of behavior on the part of Saddam. I think that Bush intends to make this point prior to attending the G8 conference. I do think he intends to attend it, however attenuated that is by his committments to Middle East negotiations. I think this is good policy and appropriate public relations, and I support both his visit to Aushwitz and to the G8 conference.

[Billthedrill]

BTW, sorry for the heat.

[xm177e2]

Bush to Visit Auschwitz Death Camp

Auschwitz was a work camp, not a true death camp. The people were used until they could no longer work (if at all), and then they were killed. The pure death camps, like Sobibor, did almost nothing but take trainloads of people in to slaughter them. It's a small difference, but people should know more about the Holocaust.

People know so much more about Auschwitz because there are so many more survivors--there are almost no survivors from Sobibor. They only escaped when they revolted, killed some Nazi guards, and ran off into the forest.

[MEG33]

He's giving a speech in Poland that would ordinarily be given at the G8.We are rewarding our friends.The President will spend one day in Evian...according to Fox report.

[Steven W.]

lest the Germans be reminded of their capacity for evil and, more recently, their inability to stand up against the same.

[TheAngryClam]

This is really going to add fuel to the fire for the "Bush is Hitler" wackos...

[MEG33]

How?